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Tag: Center for Leadership Excellence

  • It’s Hard to Love Your Neighbors if You Don’t Know Them

    How can your congregation more faithfully know and serve its neighbors? MissionInsite equips churches with powerful demographic information and insights about people’s priorities and aspirations. This data helps you understand your neighbors so that your church can support strategic, Spirit-led ministry. 

  • Cultivating leaders is not a once-a-year task. But how do we shift our thinking from reacting to fill gaps in committees to planning ahead to nurture and equip the leaders we want in the future?

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    The Center for Leadership Excellence received an $85,000 grant from The Duke Endowment to launch a new clergy renewal leave initiative to support pastors in taking intentional time for spiritual renewal. In recent years, clergy have faced unprecedented challenges, including the pandemic, congregational change, declining volunteerism, and increased demands on their time and energy. Although…

  • Are you interested in finding new ways to engage children and youth in worship in 2026? Join us this Thursday for a webinar with Nelson Cowan and begin building more intentional, intergenerational worship in your church.

  • The Gift of Being All In, Right Where We Are (and for However Long!)

    Join Courtney Ellis, author of Present: The Gift of Being All In, Right Where You Are in a guided conversation about putting down roots, working through conflict, and discovering hidden blessings in the place where God has planted us—whether it’s for a long time or only a little while.

  • The Center for Leadership Excellence presents a reflective workshop for those navigating change in life and ministry. This event explores how the wisdom of God’s creation can offer insight, resilience, and hope in seasons of transition.