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Building Healthy Leaders


September 15 - September 19, 2008, Chennai, India
  Cost: No Cost. Facilitator: Malcolm Webber

December 9 - December 12, 2008, Elkhart, Indiana
  Cost: $395. Facilitator: Robert Walter

January 5 - January 9, 2009, Yangon, Myanmar
  Cost: No Cost. Facilitator: Malcolm Webber

We are in a time of Renaissance concerning leadership development. We know that our traditional methods do not work well and the lack of healthy leaders in the church, particularly in areas of rapid church growth around the world, is fast becoming a crisis. But what are the alternatives?

This course presents an alternative, a paradigm shift. It is based upon the teaching found in Malcolm Webber's books on leaders and leadership development. For a detailed description of the paradigm shift and the specific models this course will be presenting, please see our Models page.

This is not a boring, lecture-driven course. It is a collage of learning opportunities that will both teach and use the principles of our models.

"Leadership training for Christian service and ministry commonly consists of a series of how-to-do-it suggestions strung together in a neat package that can be quite impressive and yet far off-the-mark at the same time. In my fifty years of field experience in leadership development I have seen the best and the worst of various approaches. In my judgment a key mistake is trying to produce leaders with speeches and lectures. Hands-on experiences, especially in the actual day-to-day work of the church – in worship, in prayer, in service to others, building the community of faith as a partnership needs to be at the center of the leadership learning process. I have seen few efforts toward this goal that are more responsible to the teachings of the New Testament and more carefully modeled on the ways that Christ and the apostles used to establish strong churches than the ConneXions model developed by the Strategic Global Assistance community in Elkhart, Indiana."

Ted Ward
Professor Emeritus of International Studies and Educational Research,
Michigan State University
Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Mission, and Education,
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

"With 40 years of worldwide travel including over 20 years of active service in the training of Iranian Christians for the ministry, I would wholeheartedly endorse the ConneXions model of training by Dr. Malcolm Webber as the best model globally I have come across."

Sam Yeghnazar
Executive Director
Elam Ministries, U.K.

"The ConneXions conference is Bible-based, church-based, and globally-based. There is no short-cut or a single, programmed approach to leadership development in the local church. ConneXions presents as close to a true biblical philosophy of ministry in the context of the local church that I've seen. Attending a ConneXions conference is time well spent now and for eternity."

Monnie Brewer
Global Ministries Pastor
Crystal Evangelical Free Church, Minneapolis, MN

Please read these additional comments from previous course participants.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, the participants will have:

  • Appraised their own development as a leader in view of how Jesus built leaders.
  • Reviewed the 5C model of healthy leadership and evaluated their own lives and ministries in light of this model.
  • Examined the 18 principles of building leaders and evaluated their own strategies for building leaders in light of this model.
  • Interviewed current and former participants in the ConneXions leadership learning community in Elkhart, Indiana.
  • Interviewed the owner of a manufacturing plant in Indiana who hires as many ConneXions graduates as he can.
  • Established a plan of improvement for their own leadership development strategies.

Who Should Attend?

Existing and emerging leaders in the church, business, education and government who desire to be more effective in leadership development should attend.

Because we have designed a highly interactive experience, participants learn from each other. To ensure quality learning, capacity is limited.

Testimonies

Here are some testimonies of participants in our courses in various nations.

Details

Please click on the location name above for the course you're interested in for specific details about what is included in the cost of the course, how to get there, and other logistical details.