Leadership Development is lead by Paul Leavenworth to provide national oversight for the development of a comprehensive and strategic plan for the identification, training, release and support of current and emerging leaders for the church and its mission to evangelize and disciple the nations.

Our basic understanding of leadership development is that a healthy and productive life and ministry must flow out of a “being relationship with God.” We bear fruit in life and ministry because we “abide” in the vine (John 15: 1-8). Cultivating a life and ministry based in a “being relationship with God” involves three progressive stages:

1. Spiritual Formation – establishing intimacy with God and integrity
2. Ministry Formation – identifying and developing one’s gift mix (spiritual gifts, natural abilities, and acquired skills)
3. Strategic Formation – defining one’s calling and focusing one’s life in submission to that calling for the glory of God

In order to assist our current and emerging leaders in this development, the Leadership Development Department provides seminars, workshops, and modular courses; mentoring; and consulting resources for national, regional, and local church groups.

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