The Program
The Young Pastors’ Network is a 13-month program designed to provide a large church “leadership development school” for young United Methodist clergy while also providing an ongoing online community featuring mentoring, networking, spiritual growth and peer sharing opportunities. Topics included are:
- Self-leadership that precedes strategic leadership
- Building & land issues
- Large church leadership essentials
- Missions & community transformation
- Leading the multiple staff church
- Evangelistic tactics
- Strategic planning
- Prophetic leadership
- Preaching & worship
- Maintaining healthy relationships
- Stewardship & capital campaigns…and more
Key Events
Over the 13 months, these young pastors will spend eight days together at five key events:
- Up close coaching event with Adam Hamilton and Mike Slaughter on
the Ginghamsburg Church campus in Tipp City, Ohio, on
Thursday, October 23, 2008
- Change the World conference on Friday & Saturday, October 24/25, 2008,
also on the Ginghamsburg campus
- A second coaching event with Adam and Mike at Church of the
Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, on Wednesday, September 30, 2009
- Leadership Institute on Thursday & Friday, October 1/2, 2009, also at
Church of the Resurrection
- Two-day retreat for relaxation and renewal for both pastors and their
spouses (dates & location TBA)
The Network Partners
Adam Hamilton
Senior Pastor
Church of the Resurrection
Adam Hamilton is the founding pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, and an in-demand speaker and author. Church of the Resurrection has grown from four people in 1990 to average a weekly worship attendance of over 7500 today. The church was listed as the most influential mainline church in America in a 2005 survey of American pastors by The Church Report. For more information, see www.cor.org.
Mike Slaughter
Senior Pastor
Ginghamsburg Church
Mike Slaughter is the three-decade dreamer of Ginghamsburg and the spiritual entrepreneur of ministry marketplace innovations. When Mike arrived at Ginghamsburg in 1979, worship attendance averaged 90 with an annual budget of $27,000. As of 2008, 4000 attendees on average worship weekly at Ginghamsburg and the multi-million dollar budget helps resource a faith community committed to serving the poor, lost and disenfranchised. See www.ginghamsburg.org.