If your church is navigating conflict or what feels like a church split, we’re here to support you with our new, FREE resource called, “Your church split. Where do you go from here?”
This resource is for your church if:
This tool will guide you through a series of crucial questions for this season of your ministry. Then we've shared tangible next steps you can take as a body to discern who God is calling you to be in this next season.
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Rev. Nicole Havelka, a certified yoga instructor, offers consulting, training, and team-building services.
CONVERGENCE offers numerous leadership and community development webinars on-demand or in a cohort:
1.5 Day Teach-In with Diana Butler Bass
Being Grateful in Difficult Times: An Online Learning Journey with Diana Butler Bass
Courageous Church Summit: Reimagining Our Common Ground for the Collective Good
How to Use Your Church Campus As a Tool for Neighborhood Revitalization
White Privilege Let's Talk: A Resource for Transformational Dialogue
What Will Happen to Our Churches? A Conversation with National Faith Leaders
Courageous Faith Summit - a virtual gathering of people of faith and moral conscience
Your Congregation As a School of Love (with Brian McLaron)
Curating Change in Your Church (with Brian McLaren)
The Faith+Lead Learning Lab is a place to listen, learn, innovate, and grow. Join other spiritual leaders in grappling with real-world challenges and discoveries of ministry in the 21st Century.
Thriving Beyond COVID is a scripture-based small and large group study that will encourage, inspire, and challenge members and get them in a positive frame of mind for your post-COVID journey. Challenges can be managed with faith and a plan. This two-minute video is an introduction. A leader guide, small and large group participant guides, as well as videos are available for free download here.
The NEXT Church National Gathering explored necessary breaking, gracious blessing, and essential building.
A special edition of Leading Ideas focused on a particular subject of critical interest to church leaders. From the Lewis Center for Church Leadership of Wesley Theological Seminary.
The Risk of Trying to Please Everyone
Mike Bonem says a process of meaningful change can be slowed, interrupted, or completely stopped if a leader insists on trying to please everyone. What is critical is building enough genuine support so that the effort can move forward. Read more now.
This isn't a podcast about answers. It is an exploration into ourselves, and the skills we need to create and embody the world we want.
The Soul of Transformation: Exploring Vocations in Social Justice is a podcast and resource for future leaders who not only see and name the realities of injustice in the world but can start imagining new and better solutions. This is for change agents, people who want to work towards achieving authentic racial justice, mitigating the dire impacts of climate change, facing the challenges of immigrants and refugees, and ensuring equality for people of all gender identities and sexual orientations. Learn more. Contact Rev. Dr. Justin Sabia-Tanis and Rev. Dr. Gary F. Green II for more info.
Rev. Dr. Cameron Trimble recommends meeting conflict, roadblocks, and division with a balancing martial art in A Black Belt in Aikido.
A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds
Stop wielding your values as a weapon and start offering them as a gift.
By Arthur C. Brooks in The AtlanticStudy guide: Facing divisive issues in the Beloved Community
Our local conversations can help heal a fractured society
By Robert C. Blezard / February 24, 2022
“Centering Marginalized Voices to Lead Change” featuring Tyler Sit — Episode 95
What practices can help church leaders learn from failures and address conflict in ways that lead to fruitful ministry? We speak with Tyler Sit about centering marginalized voices, meeting the needs of the community, managing conflict, and other leadership lessons he has learned as a church planter.
Jessica Guleth wonders, "What does it look like for the voices of our youth to be invited in, heard and included in the ways we do for adults? What needs adjusting in our minds and hearts to see and hear them as members?" in The Future of the Church Is Young.
Eileen Campbell-Reed explains the importance of Cultivating Good Questions
Now Is the Time for Risk-taking Leadership by Bill Wilson
Springtide Research Institute is a wealth of research-based information for boundaries and best practices for youth and young adult ministries. The New Normal: 8 Ways to Care for Gen Z in a Post-Pandemic World is but one example.
Let people know who you are, engage in civic discourse, and identify as networked within your community: get inspired by leaders from Alexandria, MN here.
Brian McLaren's, The Five Electorates in 2020 is essential reading for understanding the "other"; see also Recognizing Our Biases.