Standing Together: Churches Across NIC Turn Faith into Action
More than 18 United Methodist churches across the Northern Illinois Conference turned faith into action on Sept. 13, gathering for prayer, vigils, rallies, marches…
Tod Bolsinger
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2019
Time: 9am - 3pm
After the General Conference Special Session, United Methodists are struggling to navigate our future. We need wisdom, even more, to navigate our ministry together.
Cost: $50 includes lunch.
Please register by October 10. Cost at the door will be $70.
Based on the book Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory, Author and Fuller Theological Seminary Assistant Professor Tod Bolsinger presents a workshop that will equip UMC leaders to move into the future and learn to lead in a world that looks nothing like it did in the past.
Learn key lessons about leading in a context you may have never expected. Reimagine what effective leadership looks like in today's world. If you're going to scale the mountains of ministry, you need to leave behind canoes and find new navigational tools. The day's schedule will include four-75 minute sessions.
Tod Bolsinger is the Vice-President & Chief of Leadership Formation and Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. For 17 years, he was the Senior Pastor of San Clemente Presbyterian Church in San Clemente, California after serving for ten years on the pastoral staff at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. He earned a Ph.D. in Theology and Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author of three books, including the Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year in Pastoral Leadership, Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory, and the Christianity Today Award of Merit recipient, It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian: How the community of God transforms lives. He speaks, consults and is an executive coach for corporate, non-profit, educational and church organizations in transformational leadership.
Read the first two chapters of Canoeing the Mountains here.
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