Wednesday, July 01, 2009

LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR DISTRICT PASTORS

The District of Illinois and Wisconsin is offering to it’s Pastors two sessions of Leadership training that will not only provide valuable tools to our District Pastors as they serve their churches, but also provide C.E.U’s to our Pastors without them having to leave the District. And an extra-added bonus is that it all comes at NO cost, except the materials you will need.

So here are the details. The District Leadership have asked Dana McNeil and Rick Koch who recently graduated from the Advanced Foundation of Church Leadership program to put together two sessions of some of the most important lessons they have learned over their two years of classes and offer that learning to other Pastors in our District. The two of them along with Jonathon Shivley, who at the time was the Coordinator of the Vital Pastors program at Bethany and is now the Denomination’s Congregational Life Team leader have working on such sessions and are ready to present them to you. Other outside Leadership will also be used to guide our work together. The dates of the two sessions are Saturday, October 3rd and Saturday, February 6th. Both sessions will be held at the First Church of the Brethren of Peoria and will last from 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM. During each session there will be required reading ahead of time of one book per session. A bibliography of other books around the topic of Pastoral Leadership will also be provided. It will be necessary to attend both sessions. There will also be a little work that needs to be done prior to the first session. For attending these sessions you will receive 1.5 C.E.U’s. And last, but not least, did we say, this is FREE! If you are interested in participating please contact Dana or Rick for further details. To register yourself for this learning event contact Rick at revrick-dutchtown@netzero.net or call 815-225-7812. We look forward to seeing you in October.

Rick Koch & Dana McNeil