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Tag: Center for Leadership Excellence

  • The Center for Leadership Excellence presents a webinar to help churches reimagine worship with children. Intergenerational Worship: Changing our Assumptions, Mending our Practices, with Nelson Cowan, will offer fresh insights and practical approaches for creating worship where every generation is welcomed and engaged.

  • Children have a natural curiosity about God and an innate draw towards mystery. As they grow, kids ask bigger, more complex spiritual questions, and they need guides to help them explore their budding faith lives. Frustratingly, many of us lack the confidence or skills to talk to kids about prayer. We need resources to help…

  • Change is Hard. God is Good. Nature Can Help us Through.

    Join Courtney Ellis, author of Weathering Change: Seeking Peace Amid Life’s Tough Transitions on a guided conversation about the difficulties of change and how we might learn to weather it well as individuals and congregations. With help from God’s “book of nature,” together we will explore preparation, curiosity, adaptation, and resilience.

  • The Center for Leadership Excellence is inviting you to the NC Conference’s 2026 committee training sessions, designed to equip chairs and committee members for effective leadership and a deeper understanding of committee roles and responsibilities.

  • Praying Their Way: Exploring New Ways to Introduce Middle-Grade Kids to Prayer

    Children have a natural curiosity about God and an innate draw towards mystery. As they grow, kids ask bigger, more complex spiritual questions, and they need guides to help them explore their budding faith lives. Frustratingly, many of us lack the confidence or skills to talk to kids about prayer. We need resources to help…

  • The pastor of Oriental UMC (OUMC), Anne Sims, has held community “office hours” in a local coffee shop in her last four church appointments. Since 2019, she has spent most Wednesday mornings at The Bean coffee shop in Oriental, ready for conversation with anyone who’s willing. After COVID, she observed that many people were looking…