I’m convinced that leadership really matters in the church — now possibly more than ever. City to City has the great privilege of coming alongside church and ministry leaders across a wide range of context, facing a bewildering array of challenges. In every context, investment in your own growth as a leader is worth every penny.
In 2021 City to City is offering a number of training experiences tailor made for leaders:
Are you launching a new church or ministry or seeking to grow personally in your grasp of the gospel and its application in your leadership? Our core Incubator is for you!
Over two years you’ll take a guided tour of major ministry topics: prayer, self-care, contextualisation, outreach, preaching, conflict, delegation, and leadership development. The Incubator is the perfect opportunity to explore the rich implications of how God’s grace enables people to change. On this basis, you’ll learn to ask better questions about ministry in secular and diverse contexts like Australia.
Are you leading an established church that you long to see doing better in pursuing the call of the Great Commission? Our year-long Ministry Design Incubator would be perfect for you — along with your leadership team.
In this online program, you’ll receive practical tools and a theologically-rich and road-tested framework for faithful and fruitful ministry in your mission context. Beginning with your vision for making and maturing disciples, you’ll give sustained attention to the systems of your church in order to enable it to better achieve its God-given mission.
Are you a preacher with a burning desire to help people love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength? The fully online Preaching Incubator can help.
Over 6 modules, you’ll gain clarity and be equipped to achieve grace-enabled transformation through your preaching. Together with preachers from across Australia, you’ll lay a conceptual foundation for this through a sequence of webinars, get access to a suite of purpose-built online resources, and hone your ability to execute it via small group huddles focused on actual sermons.
“The Online Preaching Incubator essentially puts your sermons on the operating table and carefully dissects them. As uncomfortable as that sounds, the benefit of carefully considering each component of sermon preparation and delivery is invaluable. It is helping me as a preacher grow in my ability to preach to the heart and have Christ worshipped in the church where I serve.”
- Matt, Sydney
Are you seeking fresh insight for leading ministry in this season of unprecedented challenge and change? Our two newest courses, the Family Systems Theory Incubator and the Leadership Incubator will help.
Both new Incubators approach the challenge of leadership from different angles:
- The Family Systems Incubator (available face-to-face across 8 half days in Sydney) assists you to recognise the emotional dynamics beneath the surface of most ministry challenges. You’ll grow in your capacity to promote health in your congregation, drawing on the psychological scaffolding of Bowen Family Systems Theory.
- The Leadership Incubator (8 full days in Melbourne) helps you to integrate world’s best practice approaches to leadership with a contextual vision for mission through your local church. Employing the resources of the Christian Leadership Framework, you’ll develop skills to serve Christ, his church, and his mission where you are right now.
Chris Swann,
Director of Training
More information on registration can be found here
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