For Senior Pastors Only! Leadership Network’s Life Stage Leadership Community groups are unique among our Leadership Community offerings. Each Life Stage Community group consists of a relational peer network of senior or lead pastors that share similar ministry challenges and that desire connections to others serving in similar ministry career stages. Our Life Stage groups typically fill one year in advance of our meeting dates. Apply for an interview and to reserve a place on our wait lists. Upcoming Life Stage Groups include:
Senior Pastor 2 (serving churches in North America)
Starting two new groups: First Meeting: December 4-5, 2013 or May 21-22, 2014 in Dallas, TX
The Senior Pastor 2 Leadership Community is designed for senior pastors age 45+, leading a church of 2500+ attendance and experience serving in the lead pastor role for at least 10+ years. These pastors are simultaneously building and strengthening their senior level leadership teams, their churches, and their local and global communities.
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Next Generation Pastors 9 (serving churches in North America)
First Meeting: February 24-26, 2014 in Dallas, TX
Designed for senior pastors age 25-45, leading a church of 800+ attendance and experience serving in the lead pastor role for at least 3+ years. These pastors are life-long learners desiring mentoring from more seasoned senior pastors and senior executive level leaders as they work through leadership challenges in the early stages of their ministry careers. This two-year experience includes 4 meetings; each meeting spanning 2 days; consisting of intensive coaching and mentoring by carefully selected Mentor Pastors, peer learning in small groups, Personal Leadership Plans and relational connections that last a lifetime.
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Mentor Pastors Network
First Meeting: May 28-29, 2013 in Dallas, TX
Leadership Network is partnering with Pastors Retreat Network to form and launch a new initiative, Mentor Pastors Network. This is an invitation-only gathering of Senior Pastor couples who have history with Leadership Network, have a heart for marriages of pastors and are willing to lead retreats for other pastors and their wives whom they already know in their own sphere of influence. These veteran couples have demonstrated that they have a heart for other Senior Pastors and their spouses and are intimately acquainted with the joys, struggles, strengths and sorrows of pastoral marriage and ministry. As always with Leadership Network, we will develop an environment and process for the Mentor Pastor Couples to learn from each other and measure key results in the ministries and marriages of those attending the retreats they lead.
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Beyond Digital
First Meeting: October 21, 2013 in Dallas, TX
The Beyond Digital Leadership Community brings together innovative church leaders who place a high strategic value on digital tools, tactics, and spaces for accomplishing their church’s mission. These are churches that have made a significant investment in “going digital”, but also recognize that having apps or an internet campus isn’t the extent of their digital reach. There is more to be discovered, much more.
Using the latest research, input, and models from digital strategists across multiple sectors, the Beyond Digital Leadership Community will explore key questions, opportunities, and obstacles related to “all things digital”, leveraging the group’s combined resources, experience, and expertise to develop new models and strategies that will multiply the impact of churches throughout the digital space. Church leaders will be challenged to bring their best technological minds alongside their deepest pastoral hearts to maximize the strength of a balanced, creative team. The result will be the deployment of the most innovative digital tools of our time for the accomplishment of the timeless mission of the Church.
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What's Next?
First Meeting: October 30 - November 1, 2013 in Dallas, TX
We are looking for leaders that are actively thinking about the next chapter of their church’s ministry. Leaders realize that no matter how well things are going now or how strong their current ministry approaches are, they must constantly be thinking about the future. This new Leadership Community will involve interactive working sessions where you will be exposed to new ideas from the Church and other sectors including business, science and the arts. You will build models of what the future may look like and then rebuild them for your church based on the feedback from other teams. You will develop measurable plans that will lead to real results for your church. In short, your team will move from creative ideas to actionable implementation leading to powerful impact. Since the ideas and plans that will be explored and developed will be central to the direction of your church, we will require the involvement of a Lead/Senior Pastor and a minimum of four additional senior level decision-makers at each gathering. Leadership Network "alumni" are pre-qualified for this event but anyone is welcome and encouraged to request contact or apply for an interview.
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Leadership Development
First Meeting: November 7-8, 2013 in Dallas, TX
Leadership Development is the #1 issue leaders mention when we ask them to list their most urgent ministry challenges. Churches need leaders at all levels: new campus pastors, new small group coaches, new ministry leaders serving in all areas of ministry, inside and outside the walls of the church. In a collaborative learning environment, we'll take an in-depth look at new ways of replicating, multiplying and developing leaders. We'll learn from each participating team’s model of leadership development and deeply examine elements such as: Creating a culture of leadership development; Designing your unique leadership reproduction approach; Internships and residencies; Technology and online delivery systems; Curriculum vs new tools and training approaches; Establishing realistic targets for the number of leaders you’ll need in the next 3-5 years; and Designing a process to develop missional leaders ready for service outside the walls of your church.
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Marriage Ministry
First Meeting: November 22-23, 2013 in Dallas, TX
Many of the challenges that your church is facing would be positively impacted if the marriages and families in your church were healthy and strong. Today, perhaps more than ever, the church needs to have a comprehensive strategy for supporting the marriages in the church and community. This leadership community will expose your team to the best and most effective models of marriage ministry in the church today and will challenge you to create a plan that will be effective in your unique church environment.
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Churches with Nonprofit / Charity Organizations
First Meeting: December 11-12, 2013 in Dallas, TX
In our ever-changing and increasingly challenging economy, churches are often looking for ways to serve their communities through various not-for-profit ventures. Recognizing that this is an emerging trend, Leadership Network is launching a two year Leadership Community for Churches with Nonprofit /Charity Organizations. This community is designed for churches that have already launched a nonprofit venture and are wanting to learn from others and collaborate in helping each other maximize their efforts and effectiveness. What models exist, what are potential pitfalls, and usable metrics? What does 'great' look like in a non-profit?
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Multisite Artist Development
First Meeting: October 17-18, 2013 in Dallas, TX
The Multisite Artist Development InnovationLab will provide worship arts leaders with the resources, relationships, and ideas necessary to develop a comprehensive worship and artist development model for their church. Through our proven, peer-centered process, your team will connect with other innovative churches, as well as thought leaders in the artist development arena, in order to share best practices, collaborate on new ideas, and develop practical models that yield measurable results for your ministry.
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Multisite JumpStart
First Meeting: September 19-20, 2013 in Dallas, TX
This unique InnovationLab gathering is designed for church teams planning your first multisite location(s) and will focus on the practical how-to’s of location, leadership and structure. You will have the opportunity to be exposed to some leading multisite parishioners and consultants as well as other churches that are on the multisite launch pad. And you will walk out of the room with an action plan for launching your first campus.
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Generosity Ministry
First Meeting: October 24-25, 2013 in Dallas, TX
Leadership Network is happy to announce that it is launching an exciting new opportunity. It’s called a Generosity Ministry InnovationLab and it is focused on helping churches create a culture of generosity and stewardship. This InnovationLab will feature the results based collaboration Leadership Network is known for and will help your team to shape a plan to create a culture of giving and stewardship in your church. Churches that have participated in previous Generosity InnovationLabs have seen dramatic results.
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Justice Ministry
First Meeting: August 27-28, 2013 in Dallas, TX
Ministries of mercy deal with the symptoms of people’s brokenness. Ministries of justice traffic in the systems that create those symptoms. Mercy is rescuing people from the river. Justice walks up stream to discover who is pushing them into the water. Most churches do a pretty decent job of helping people “walk humbly with their God” and “love mercy”—two-thirds of Micah 6:8. But precious few churches venture into areas of “doing justice” yet the church has been at her historic best when she begins to do justice. In this InnovationLab we will explore the big issues facing the world today and what your church can do to engage some of the big systemic problems facing your neighborhood and the world today.
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Senior Pastor and Executive Pastor Experience
September 19, 2013 in Seattle, WA
November 14, 2013 in Denver, CO
In the Fall of 2012, Leadership Network launched its' first Senior Pastor/ Executive Pastor One day with Clear Creek Community Church in League City, TX. Since that time, we have held additional One Day's in Phoeniz, AZ, Baltimore, MD, and Chicago, IL. We will continue with two more One Day's in 2013 - September 19 in the Seattle, WA area and November 14 in the Denver, CO area. These Regional events are a unique gathering designed specifically for Senior Pastor and Executive Pastor teams. At this fast paced one day offering, participants will experience Leadership Network’s “Peer Protocol Process” by: Having the opportunity to network with other leadership teams from similar sized churches; Learning from experienced and effective Senior Pastor/Executive Pastor Teams; and addressing some of the challenges and opportunities facing growing congregations.
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Your Problem, Our Process
October 3, 2013 in Dallas, TX
Got a problem that if solved would make a difference in your church or in the kingdom? We may not have a solution, but we do have a process through which you and your team can discover the solution. Leadership Network has always been good at creating “Aha” experiences for churches—those breakthrough moments where you see with new clarity that which was once obscure. Your team will join 4-5 other teams to discover solutions to problems you care about—Your problem…our process…great outcomes.
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Hispanic Pastors Forum
October 9, 2013 in Chicago, IL
At the Large Church Hispanic Pastors Forum in Chicago, leading Hispanic/Latino pastors of English-dominant congregations will share their best practice ideas with other pacesetting leaders from similar size churches. They’ll address challenges and opportunities facing growing congregations and explore creative ways to discover the “What’s Next” for their churches. Host location is New Life Covenant Church in Chicago, where Pastor Wilfredo “Pastor Choco” de Jesus will give us a walking tour of their Chicago Dream Center and share the story of their attendance growth of 150 to become the largest attendance church in the Assembly of God denomination. This national event on October 9, 2013 is specifically designed for senior pastors that lead a church of 1,000 or more in attendance and minister to a predominantly Hispanic or Latino congregation, especially second generation and beyond. This unique forum is not a conference, but a limited seating forum -- a fast paced one-day experience of Leadership Network’s peer learning process. God is raising a new generation of pastors, many younger, and many exploring new ways of reaching the next generation for Christ.
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Mark your calendars now for this year's slate of Leadership Network's online conferences. We're happy to announce our 2013 events:
Church Innovate: United States and Canada
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Church Innovate: Europe
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
The Nines
Tuesday/Wednesday, November 15/16, 2013
