Leadership Network – What are they doing these days?

The short answer is – a lot! Most of our program work is focused on Leadership Communities – groups consisting of leadership teams representing various churches around the country, meeting together over two years to focus on specific, innovative ministry focus areas. One purpose is to create relational networks among leaders. Another purpose is to create communities of peers who are seeking to improve their personal and organizational performance in the focused outcome areas.

Participation in each Leadership Community (LC) is by invitation. Group size is kept small – usually 12-15 churches per group. Groups meet together over a two-year period. With the exception of the Next Generation Pastors LC, churches send teams of 2-5 leaders to participate in an LC.

New groups are constantly forming. Pastors and leadership teams interested in participating can go to our website and click on the appropriate LC group listed and contact the LC director for more details – Link.

Here’s a short list of current Leadership Communities –

Externally Focused Churches (community impact and transformation)
Multi site Churches
Recovery Ministry Churches
Marketplace Success/Kingdom Significance (churches matching halftime leaders with serving opportunities)
Healthcare Initiative Churches
Encore Generation Churches (older adult ministry)
Generous Churches (catalyzing a revolution of generosity church-wide)
Church Planting Churches
Next Generation Pastors (younger senior pastors leading large churches)

New LCs coming online soon –

Asian American Churches
University Ministry
Missional Renaissance Churches (external ministry focus collaborative initiatives involving city, social services, other churches in the area)

Check our website for additional details about Leadership Network Leadership Community Groups - Link.

Linda Stanley serves as Director of Life Stage Leadership Communities and provides leadership for the Next Generation Pastors Leadership Community groups. The Next Generation Pastors Leadership Community exists to create relational peer networks of senior pastors who share similar ministry challenges and desire connections to other leaders serving in similar ministry situations. Additional information is on our website - www.leadnet.org, linda.stanley@leadnet.org

Comments

[James Higginbotham]

Very interesting! Sounds like a larger form of the approach I'm taking, which is to gather leaders within my church and take them through a 7 week leadership bootcamp, using my recent eBook: http://www.agileministry.com/ebooks/handle-with-care/

Thanks for the information!