Ministry Leadership in a Messy World
Friday, October 18, 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Compassion International
12290 Voyager Pkwy
Colorado Springs, CO 80921
Hosted by Fuller Seminary at Compassion International Global Ministry Headquarters
Registration
- $75 for individuals and $60 per person for groups of 10 or more.
Meals
On-site lunch is provided in the registration cost.
Overview
Churches and ministries are facing extraordinary levels of change, complexity, and polarization. Many Christian leaders have reported high levels of exhaustion and burnout. While pastors and ministry leaders are as dedicated as ever, too many are drained and ill-equipped for the challenges of this season of leadership.
How can ministry leaders thrive in the midst of this messy reality? Where are signs of hope and possibility for those who are ready to rethink church? What are leading ideas and practical applications for today’s faith communities and ministries?
Mission and ministry leaders in the Colorado Springs area are invited to join us at this training event hosted by Fuller Seminary at Compassion International Global Mission Headquarters. Those who attend will be equipped with practical tools and approaches to better navigate challenges and offer Christ’s hope and healing to the world. In addition to the keynotes, breakout sessions will explore themes of missional leadership, discipleship and spiritual formation, youth and young adult ministry, marketplace leadership, leading change in ministry, and much more. Invite your entire church or ministry team to attend and find a hopeful way forward together!
Academic Dean for Centro Latino
Churches that Transform Lives and Communities: Learning from the Comunidades de Base
Senior Congregational Strategist and Affiliate Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
The Big Mistakes that Good Change Leaders Make
President, Fuller Seminary
A Strategy for Sustaining Ministry in Messy Spaces: Relief, Recovery, and Resilience
Cultural, social, technological storms and more threaten the church and the world. A Christ-centered faith is essential for Christian leaders and communities to help themselves and others survive and thrive and minister in a messy world. This workshop will be around an arc of relief, recovery, and resiliency - a strategy for ministers who minister in messy spaces.
Senior Congregational Strategist and Affiliate Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
When Trust is Not Enough: Bringing Deep Change to a Community You Love
In this breakout, Tod Bolsinger will take you through the process that has been used with over a hundred churches and organizations across the world. From church plants to traditional cathedrals, from multinational NGOs and universities to laser-focused and strappy non-profits, turning trust to transformation is a process that can be learned and mastered.
Academic Dean for Centro Latino and Associate Professor of Mission and Global Transformation
Building Vibrant Christian Communities: Learning from the Base Christian Community Movement in Latin America and the Philippines
Our research at the Centro Latino of Fuller Theological Seminary with emerging generations in the Latina community has shown that they are longing for models for building vibrant, holistic Christian communities that come out of their own cultural roots. The base christian community movements of the 1970s and 1980s were a network of small-group home Bible studies that were led by the poor, multiplied quickly and became the spine of initiatives for peace and justice throughout Latin America and the Philippines. The keynote will introduce and the workshop will go deeper into the principles that we can learn from this movement that can make a difference in our own church revitalization efforts, sharing empowering stories in the process.
Jake Mulder
Assistant Chief of Leadership Formation Division, Fuller Seminary
The Best Days of the Church are Ahead: Engaging the Passion and Potential of Young People
Teenagers and young adults aren't your church or ministry's greatest liability--they can be your greatest asset. Our team at the Fuller Youth Institute has studied 250 congregations that are Growing Young by understanding and unlocking the passion and potential of young people. Learn how your church can step into the shoes of and empower this generation, and how embracing a future-focused perspective can fuel hope-filled change.
Laura Murray
Director of Spiritual Engagement and Innovation, Fuller Center for Spiritual Formation
The Hospitable Leader: Creating People and Places of Welcome
In a world where safe places are uncertain, we need people of welcome. Hospitality isn’t only for homes and hotels but a call to all who follow Christ. How can leaders create more places and people of welcome? From the way you enter until the final goodbyes, learn how to be a leader who creates welcome wherever you go.
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
Assistant Professor of Marketplace Leadership and Executive Director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership
Cultivating Leaders that Flourish
Rooted in De Pree Center’s Flourishing Leaders data, this breakout will go deeper into a few proven practices that help guide and ground leaders and teams to do the internal work that enables us to navigate seasons of change in life and work.
Hugh De Pree Professor of Leadership Development
Leading in the Midst of Cultural Storms
What should Christian leaders do to thrive in this post-pandemic, fragmented world we all face? This workshop will present the results of recent research asking about how we should lead in this uncertain world.
Jake Mulder
Assistant Chief of Leadership Formation Division, Fuller Seminary
Reversing the Decline in Faith Among Teenagers--The TENx10 Collaboration
An estimated 10 million teenagers will disaffiliate from the Christian faith in the next 10 years. That's the bad news. The good news? The path forward is relational discipleship radically focused on Jesus, and over 140 national ministry organizations and tens of thousands of leaders are committing to shift their approach to youth discipleship. Together, we can realize a different reality. Join this session to be equipped with cutting-edge insights and free resources.
Robert Boyd Munger Professor of Evangelism
Pastoral Imagination and a Lived Theology
In this workshop, we will examine the academic discipline of practical theology and how we begin to investigate and analyze our context and apply Biblical and Scriptural values and insights into how our theology is authentically and deeply lived out in our ministry context. Drawing from academic resources, real world examples, and ministry experience, we will focus on how leaders can respond to the many challenges that currently face Christian ministries.
Rowland Smith
National Director of Forge America
Missional Postures Needed for a Rapidly Changing Context
The Church in America finds itself in the midst of a rapidly changing and demanding culture. As a people who display the kingdom of God to a hurting world, what are the postures we need to remind ourselves of as a people of good news to our contexts? In this breakout, we’ll curate a conversation around our missional call as God’s people, and how we lead communities of faith toward those understandings of engaging the places they live, work, and play.
Event Schedule
8:15 am: Registration Opens
9:00 am: Main Session 1
- Dr. Goatley
- Panel Discussion
10:20 am: Break
10:50 am: Morning Breakout Sessions
11:45 am: Lunch (provided)
- Alumni gathering located in Shin-ae-won, hosted by Scott Cormode and Jeff Holck
1:00 pm: Main Session 2
- Alexia Salvatierra
- Tod Bolsinger
2:10 pm: Break
2:30 pm: Afternoon Breakout Sessions
3:30 pm: Break
3:50 pm: Main Session 3
- Michaela O’Donnell
- Soong-Chan Rah
5:00 pm: Conclusion