C4ML, the Catalyst for Missional Leadership at Biblical Seminary, has innovated a process called Missional Leadership Labs that helps leaders of congregations either transition to or deepen their commitment to becoming mission-focused and incarnational in their ministries. The process uses clusters of congregational leaders from 6-9 congregations as a learning community. Great synergy for action and learning is created when leaders from similar contexts compare challenges and possible strategies for action with one another.

The goal is to help leader teams from each ministry envision and innovate congregational life that is intensely mission-focused and is having a transformational impact within its people and ministry context. The leadership lab will help leaders move purposefully forward toward missional vitality. This process is designed to help both the dysfunctional "off mission" church and the congregation already engaged in the missional journey that wants to reach its full missional and kingdom potential.

Training Outline

Year One: Missional Leadership Formation

• Self-assess missional awareness and leadership style
• Cultivate spiritual disciplines that fuel missional leadership
• Develop a plan addressing one's primary, personal, adaptive challenge
• Define what it means for a congregation to be truly "missional"
• Identify hindrances to incarnational living that may be active in existing structures, formats, programs, and strategies.

Year Two: Congregational Engagement

• Assess the readiness of the congregation for missional re-shaping
• Do cultural exegesis in the host community(ies)
• Utilize a Missional Experiment Team to develop a ministry "experiment" designed to emerge from the ministry context and engage the congregation with their host community at a deeper and more personal level
• Learn a process that can be re-cycled in the life of the congregation to continue missional reshaping
• Develop an ongoing strategy to organize your congregation around mission and incarnational living

Each year of the Missional Leadership Lab experience includes the following services:

• Group training sessions in the Missional Leadership Lab
• Lead Pastor coaching calls
• E-mail access to C4ML staff
• Inclusion in the C4ML community
• Assessment tools for the leader and congregation

Notes

• Evening or Saturday morning sessions can be arranged
• You may bring up to three staff members from your church for the sessions
• Partial scholarships may be available

More information: contact C4ML at 800.235.4021 x158 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .