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Tag: Center for Leadership Excellence

  • Small congregations are not big places in miniature. They work differently. They come with different resources, dynamics, and challenges. But they also come with distinctive strengths–ones that are powerfully forming and not generally available in big settings. Ministry requires more than trying to replicate big-setting successes. It requires unleashing this great variety of small-setting strengths. Like reclaiming lay…

  • The Small Church Advantage

    The Small Church Advantage

    Small congregations are not big places in miniature. They work differently. They come with different resources, dynamics, and challenges. But they also come with distinctive strengths–ones that are powerfully forming and not generally available in big settings. Ministry requires more than trying to replicate big-setting successes. It requires unleashing this great variety of small-setting strengths.…

  • There’s something about people who show up. Maybe they’re family—the ones with whom we share genes, traditions, and stories. Maybe they’re friends—the family we choose, the people we look at and say, “You know what, I like this one. I think I’ll keep them around.” Maybe you’re still waiting for those people. But I hope,…

  • Every United Methodist congregation is required to have a Safer Sanctuaries policy — but this is more than paperwork. Safer Sanctuaries is a way of being in ministry. It’s a movement to make our churches safe places for children, youth, vulnerable adults, and the people who minister with them. 

  • Safer Sanctuaries Training

    Every United Methodist congregation is required to have a Safer Sanctuaries policy — but this is more than paperwork. Safer Sanctuaries is a way of being in ministry. It’s a movement to make our churches safe places for children, youth, vulnerable adults, and the people who minister with them. This training will give you the theological…

  • magine having to miss a week of school every month. Now imagine persevering and completing school even years after your peers because of these missed days. This is the story of many girls in Kenya because they don’t have access to menstrual products. Every school in Kenya requires fees for tuition and uniforms. Beatrice Wangai began…