Are you a clergy member, staff person, or lay leader? Are you committed to helping your church do everything it can to share God’s love with your community? If you answered yes to those questions, then Leadership Institute is for you!
With over 50 Ministry-Specific Breakouts covering every ministry and member of your team, Pre-Institute is designed for those who want to come early, fuel up, and get the most out of your trip!
Leadership Institute at Resurrection in Leawood, KS is designed to equip, encourage, and inspire ministry leaders from across the country and around the globe. You’ll experience:
“Thank you, thank you, thank you! I really appreciated the variety of the speakers and the fact that they were relevant. Ideas presented were excellent and either reinforcement of things we are doing, offering a different idea or approach, or simply great!! Again, thanks for the moments to worship as well as to learn.”
Do you serve an “inherited congregation” – a church with long history, deeply rooted traditions and, typically, a declining presence in the community? Across the U.S., congregations like yours are cultivating “fresh expressions” of church. A fresh expression is a form of church for our changing culture, established primarily for the benefit of those who are not yet part of any church. This session is a condensed but thorough introduction to the fresh expressions approach.
Life has never felt busier, and the demands on people’s time have never been greater. Most leaders struggle with how to get it all done, and everyone pays a price: your organization, your family, and you. In this session, you’ll be shown a proven method that’s helped thousands of leaders get time, energy and priorities working for them, not against them so they can get their life and leadership back.
Chapter 12 of the New Testament book of Romans gives detailed instructions on how to love God, neighbor and self, as Jesus commands. This session will be a deep dive into verses 9-17, with an eye toward fierce neighbor love as the surest evidence of our love for God.
This session will equip participants to deal more effectively with the toughest challenges of ministry leadership – to remain physically calm, to think quickly and carefully, and to keep emotions in balance. It includes a simple self-analysis to help you identify and understand your own unique leadership assets and offers techniques for using those assets skillfully. Gain confidence to lead capably and calmly, no matter the situation.
In this interactive session, you will learn the essential skills and strategies to become a leader of influence. Discuss the importance of building relationships, creating a vision, and developing communication skills to lead your team and organization from a generational perspective. Additionally, you will gain the tools and knowledge to become an effective and influential leader to create lasting change within your church.
This highly practical session will explore what it means to extend BOTH/AND hospitality. You’ll learn how to make great first impressions, from your website (the front door) to your building (the physical door). It will cover best practices on signage, developing hybrid language that includes everyone, learning how to build a relational pathway into your communities and much more. You’ll have immediate, accessible takeaways for laypeople and clergy alike, from churches of any size, worship style or context.
Do you see a need in your church, have a creative idea for ministry, or want to move forward with a plan only to run into the problem of funding? While ministry ought to shape our finances, in many churches, finances shape what is possible in ministry. To move forward, we need to learn how to engage new generations of people in conversations about generosity and create a culture of giving in our churches that can accelerate ministry instead of holding it back. This session will provide practical and achievable ideas for approaching generosity in new ways. You’ll see how they work and why they work, and you’ll begin to see how to implement them in your own ministry setting.
This session will be about learning to apply the vision process of discerning, discovering and deploying to realize the God given dreams and visions for your life, church and community. Your dreams and visions are possible.
Pre-Institute is your opportunity to come early, fuel up, and make the most of your trip!
You’ll experience:
“EXCELLENT! My church staff was thanking me profusely at the end of the Pre-Institute Day for bringing them. They each attended the breakouts that dealt with their specific ministry responsibilities and gained so much helpful and energizing information and ideas to take back. Thank you for the Pre-Institute!”
“Every speaker was fantastic and I took home something from every session.”
Yes. Your registration comes with 6 months of access to the Leadership Institute 2023 content. This will include all General Sessions and Featured Sessions. Breakouts are only available in-person at Pre-Institute on September 27th.
Refunds will not be extended for cancellations of the online registration. The entirety of the conference content will be available to participants for 6 months after the live event ends. With this extended access, there is no need to cancel your registration if you are unable to attend on the days of the live event. Should you need to cancel your In-Person Registration, we will exchange your In-Person Registration to an Online Only Registration and refund you the difference through August 17. After August 17, we are unable to provide a refund.
Refunds will not be extended for cancellations of the online registration. The entirety of the conference content will be available to participants for 6 months after the live event ends. With this extended access, there is no need to cancel your registration if you are unable to attend on the days of the live event. Should you need to cancel your In-Person Registration, we will exchange your In-Person Registration to an Online Only Registration and refund you the difference through August 17. After August 17, we are unable to provide a refund.
Refunds will not be extended for cancellations of the online registration. The entirety of the conference content will be available to participants for 6 months after the live event ends. With this extended access, there is no need to cancel your registration if you are unable to attend on the days of the live event. Should you need to cancel your In-Person Registration, we will exchange your In-Person Registration to an Online Only Registration and refund you the difference through August 17. After August 17, we are unable to provide a refund.
Refunds will not be extended for cancellations of the online registration. The entirety of the conference content will be available to participants for 6 months after the live event ends. With this extended access, there is no need to cancel your registration if you are unable to attend on the days of the live event. Should you need to cancel your In-Person Registration, we will exchange your In-Person Registration to an Online Only Registration and refund you the difference through August 17. After August 17, we are unable to provide a refund.
Refunds will not be extended for cancellations of the online registration. The entirety of the conference content will be available to participants for 6 months after the live event ends. With this extended access, there is no need to cancel your registration if you are unable to attend on the days of the live event. Should you need to cancel your In-Person Registration, we will exchange your In-Person Registration to an Online Only Registration and refund you the difference through August 17. After August 17, we are unable to provide a refund.
Refunds will not be extended for cancellations of the online registration. The entirety of the conference content will be available to participants for 6 months after the live event ends. With this extended access, there is no need to cancel your registration if you are unable to attend on the days of the live event. Should you need to cancel your In-Person Registration, we will exchange your In-Person Registration to an Online Only Registration and refund you the difference through August 17. After August 17, we are unable to provide a refund.
Our mission is to provide quality, practical tools and training to clergy, church staff, and volunteers who share a passion for strengthening churches.
Have questions? Contact us at sharechurchconferences@cor.org or 913-232-4120.
Resurrection’s purpose is to build a Christian community where non-religious and nominally religious people are becoming deeply committed Christians. Our vision is to be used by God to change lives, strengthen churches, and transform the world.
