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Tag: Center for Leadership Excellence

  • The Center for Leadership Excellence presents, Doing Ministry as a Team, a Leadership and Church Administration workshop with Colin Snider and Carl Frazier.

  • Leadership and Church Administration: Doing Ministry as a Team

    When a church has a lead/associate pastor team or staff members, how does everyone agree on vision and mission? How much room does each person have to live into ministry? How much direction should a lead/senior pastor give and how much freedom? All, and more, contribute to the “get along factor” – how well lead/senior pastors build relationships with other staff, especially appointed associates.

  • Effective leadership isn’t about having the perfect plan—it’s about bringing steadiness, perspective, and clarity to the people you serve. This fall, join the Center for Leadership Excellence and Jack Shitama for a Day of Learning designed to equip clergy and laity with practical ways to cultivate this kind of leadership. Drawing from family systems theory, Jack…

  • Family systems theory gives leaders a framework to understand what’s happening beneath the surface—and respond with clarity and steadiness. Join us for a Day of Learning with Jack Shitama and discover practical ways to guide your church through uncertainty and cultivate healthier leadership.

  • Ministry can be a beautiful, sacred calling—but it can also be exhausting. Between leading, caring, teaching, and tending to the needs of others, we often forget that we, too, are part of God’s creation. The same God who painted the skies, sculpted the mountains, and set the seas in motion also carefully crafted you. Sometimes,…

  • The Center for Leadership Excellence is excited to announce our upcoming Fall 2025 events! This fall, we’re offering a variety of opportunities to equip and inspire clergy and laity for effective ministry and leadership. Our lineup includes practical leadership workshops to strengthen your skills, innovative conversations around emerging trends in ministry, and opportunities to connect…