Dean Blevins: Ministerial Entrepreneurship
This workshop examines the value of identifying, empowering, and equipping the innovative and entrepreneurial pastors and leaders among us as a growing strategy in engaging mission both locally and globally.

Dean Blevins, Shannon Greene, and Mike King explore what it means to create life-changing ministries of spiritual formation for youth and young adults.

Resources:
https://bit.ly/2kt3dMW

The relaunch of the Wynkoop Center for Women in Leadership took place on November 2, 2021. The event corresponded with the 2021 Mercer Lectures on Holiness with Dr. Sondra Wheeler. The panel includes Dr. Jenny Matheny, Dr. Sondra Wheeler, Rev. Michaele LaVigne, Rev. Janice Ballard, and the Rev. D...

Pastor's Day, 2015, Session 1. Dr. Scott Daniels talks about sacramental theology in the church.

Dr. Rebecca Laird presented a series of three lectures on a theme of 'An Altogether Christian Community' for Pastors Day at NTS (Nov 2018). Her final lecture was entitled 'Ritual and Repair.'

See the PowerPoint Presentations here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xA9llL10RYXpUoiP2E6CLM...

Dr. Rebecca Laird presented a series of three lectures on a theme of 'An Altogether Christian Community' for Pastors Day at NTS (Nov 2018). Her second lecture was entitled 'Solitude and Service.'

See the PowerPoint Presentations here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xA9llL10RYXpUoiP2E6...

Dr. Rebecca Laird presented a series of three lectures on a theme of 'An Altogether Christian Community' for Pastors Day at NTS (Nov 2018). Her first lecture was entitled
'Belonging and Vulnerability,'

See the PowerPoint Presentations here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xA9llL10RYX...

Jeren Rowell offers some important advice for those in their first years of ministry. Dr. Rowell is President of Nazarene Theological Seminary and Professor of Pastoral Ministry at NTS.

In this Pastors and Leaders Conference address, Dr. Schwanz identifies some of the resources of the Wesleyan tradition that provide spiritual sustenance for the minister and emotional health for long term missional ministry.
Dr. Judith (Judi) Schwanz is Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling ...

Dr. Doug Hardy, Professor of Spiritual Formation at NTS hosts a panel discussion on how to think about and structure a meaningful sabbatical. Other participants included Revs. Daron Brown, Rob Kazee, and Phil Hamner.

Resources from Dr. Self:
Vocations and Occupations: https://bit.ly/2GVq5fv
Resources for Discipleship: https://bit.ly/394S5th
Resources for Flourishing: https://bit.ly/2uagCyo

Print Resources:
Helen Kim: Faith and work Curriculum for kids (link below)
Diana Garland: Congregational Social Work: C...

When pastors do their work well, the value of that ministry goes much deeper than services rendered to a people. It is possible to conduct the work of congregational administration in ways that build on the foundation of a pastoral theology that provides the truest kind of leadership for the chur...

Dr. Middendorf delivers a chapel sermon at NTS on the perils of financial indebtedness in the parish.

Dr. Jesse Middendorf talks about how the sociological aspects of a church can have a greater impact than formal ecclesiological structures (and more) which are imposed on it from the outside. Dr. Middendorf is a former District Superintendent and General Superintendent for the Church of the Nazar...

Dr. Steve Borger and Rev. Bonnie Beam talk about the COMPASS Initiative. In 2016, the Church of the Nazarene received a grant from the Lilly Endowment's National Initiative to Address the Economic Challenges Facing Pastoral Leaders. With this grant the Church of the Nazarene created The COMPASS I...

Mark Lail, the Director for Stewardship Ministries at the GMC talks about the When, Why, and How ministers should talk about money in the church.

Mark Lail was the featured speaker at this NTS Chapel. He is the Executive Vice President for the Church of the Nazarene Foundation.

Jesus says "I am that I am" referring himself to equal status to God. Dr. Jesse Middendorf is the Executive Director of the Center for Pastoral Leadership, former DS, and GS in the Church of the Nazarene.

A discussion about worship in small, medium and large congregations featuring Brannon Hancock, Andrea Garcia, and Rick Lee James.

Dr. Karen Westerfield Tucker is The Professor of Worship at Boston University.

Dr. Karen Westerfield Tucker is The Professor of Worship at Boston University.

Church Music and the Christian Year.
Dr. Karen Westerfield Tucker is The Professor of Worship at Boston University.

This webinar features Dr. Brannon Hancock, Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Worship at Indiana Wesleyan University. He is author of the book 'The Scandal of Sacramentality: the Eucharist in Literary and Theological Perspectives' (Pickwick, 2014)