This column will be a little unusual as I am mostly going to point to some other writing I have been doing. But first, October is Clergy Appreciation Month and so, you pastors and deacons who said “yes” to the call of public ministry, thank you!
A message from Pastor Phil Misner, Assistant to the Bishop
Leadership Education and the Reflective Leadership Grant
“Leadership Education aims to create lasting change in U.S. congregations by supporting Christian leaders and the institutions they serve. Leadership Education designs educational services, develops intellectual resources and facilitates networks of institutions that cultivate a coherent vision of Christian institutional leadership and form Christian leaders. Leadership Education is a non-degree-granting initiative of Duke Divinity School funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. and based in Durham, NC.”
Executive Skills for Church Leaders
Funding Forward
Grace Pomroy, our 2024 Regional Gathering speaker and an instructor at Luther Seminary, has a book available now for pre-order (published by Fortress Press).
Accompanying our Indigenous Siblings
The (im)Possible Promise of Enough
“Stewardship in a Box” 2024 is dropping! “The (im)Possible Promise of Enough” is a new resource from our friends at ChurchAnew.org (remember “Lent in a Box”?) and has been updated for this year’s lectionary and focus. “Stewardship in a Box” is an affordable, customizable guide to an annual campaign that takes congregations and their leaders through conversations about faith and finances on Sunday mornings and throughout the week of any given stewardship push.
UKD Trip Report
St. Catherine of Sienna said, “All the way to heaven is heaven.” Most of the way from Dar es Salaam to Ifakara is bumpy and awkward, punctuated with roadside checks along freeways and unpaved paths of varying quality. But even this section of our two-and-half-week pilgrimage to the Ulanga Kilombero Diocese was heavenly, because we saw the face of God everywhere we looked.