Learing Outcomes
- Renew yourself through worship, prayer, rest and fellowship.
- Practice living and leading well as you build on your gifts and strengths.
- Inspire team members to be creative, collaborative and conscious of God's presence in their lives.
- Learn ways to interpret your ministry context and adapt to a changing ministry environment.
- Gain wisdom from your colleagues around a variety of ministry issues.
Learning Themes
- Telling Stories of God's Activity: Re-igniging evangelism
- Narratives of Worthiness: Re-writing the stories we tell ourselves
- Becoming a Storytelling Congregation: Integrating spiritual storytelling into ministry
- The Stories our Bodies are Telling
- Storytelling and Faith Formation
- Telling Stories of Impact: Building a culture of generosity
- Naming Our Next Faithful Steps
Who Would Benefit from this Experience?
- Pastors of small and large churches who desire to grow in their leadership and experience sabbath rest and renewal.
- Ministers and program staff who work with ministry teams.
- Newly called ministry leaders who seek and rethink and reimagine ministry in new ways.
- Judicatory leaders seeking to develop healthy cultures and systems in faith communities.
Leading Well Facilitators
Your facilitators for the Leading Well Retreat include:
- Jim LaDoux
- Matthew Short
- Tammy Devine
- John Weit
- Miguel Gomez Acosta
- Jenny Sung
- Jodi Hogue
- Mitzie Schafer
Costs/What's included
The all-inclusive program fee includes tuition, event preparation, particpant materials, housing (if desired), 9 meals and on-site hospitality. Per person fees vary based on the type of accomodation chosen. You may opt to put down a non-refundable $100 deposit (with balance due before the event) or pay the entire fee at once.
Single: $1100
Double: $950
Spouse: $500
Commuter: $675
