The Program
The Young Pastors’ Network is 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:
- Vision Casting
- Self Leadership
- Prophetic Leadership
- Organizational Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Staffing
- Stewardship & Capital Campaigns
- Preaching & Worship
- Missions & Community Transformation
- Evangelistic Tactics
- Marriage & Family…and more
Key Events
The young pastors are spending six days together at these key events:
- Up close coaching event with Adam Hamilton and Mike Slaughter on the Ginghamsburg Church campus in Tipp City, Ohio, on May 10 to May 12, 2011.
- A second coaching event with Adam and Mike at Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, on November 15 to 17, 2011.
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 2010, 4500 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.