Build a Leadership Culture

Foundations of Church Leadership is a pathway designed for helping pastors and elder boards build a leadership culture focused on disciple making and equipping all the saints for ministry. Every church is different. So, in the foundations package, we focus on helping you to design a contextually appropriate leadership pathway.

Join Alan Hirsch (The Forgotten Ways), Randy Newman (Mere Evangelism), and Michael Cooper (Ephesiology) for a facilitated, self-paced experience to:

  • Discover practical and reproducible tools for creating your own discipleship curriculum.

  • Apply principles from the early Christian focus on God, mission, and church in your own ministry and spiritual life.

  • Initiate steps in your church to involve everyone in spiritual conversations with their neighbors.

  • Discover and activate your leadership gifts for equipping the body of Christ for ministry.

Six Learning Experiences

These experiences are more than information. They are an opportunity to deepen your faith and sharpen your leadership. Do them as a team or as a part of your personal devotions.

Your facilitators

Alan, Randy, and Michael bring decades of leadership experience to help you develop a culture of disciple making in your church.

Founder, Movement Leaders Collective Alan Hirsch

Alan Hirsch is the founding director of Forge Mission Training Network, 100Movements, The 5Q Collective, and Future Travelers. All these are focussed on developing missional leadership and movemental organization. Known for his innovative approach to mission, Alan is considered to be a thought-leader and key mission strategist for churches across the Western world. Hirsch is the author of The Forgotten Ways; 5Q; The Shaping of Things to Come, ReJesus, and The Faith of Leap (with Michael Frost); Untamed (with Debra Hirsch); Right Here, Right Now (with Lance Ford), and On the Verge (with Dave Ferguson).

Professor of Missiological Theology Michael T. Cooper

Dr. Cooper earned a PhD in Intercultural Studies with a focus on religious movements and a minor in theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He currently serves as a missiologist for a missions agency where he focuses on missiological research and equipping missionaries for effective cultural engagement. He has thirty years of missions experience, including ten years as a pioneer church planter in Romania after the fall of communism and has equipped church planters and leaders in Africa, Europe, North America, South America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. He is a guest faculty at Torch Trinity Graduate University, adjunct faculty at Mission India Theological Seminary, Asia Graduate School of Theology Nepal, and Ebenezer Bible College in Katmandu, and affiliate faculty at Kairos University. He has written and contributed to more than 30 books and academic articles and has presented conference lectures at the London School of Economics, University of Bordeaux, Loyola University, Baylor University, and many others. His recent book, Ephesiology: A Study of the Ephesian Movement is a best seller at William Carey Publishing.

Senior Fellow, C.S. Lewis Institute Randy Newman

Dr. Newman is the Senior Fellow for Evangelism and Apologetics at The C. S. Lewis Institute in the Washington, DC area. He has also taught at numerous theological seminaries and colleges. After serving for over 30 years with Campus Crusade for Christ, he established Connection Points, a ministry to help Christians engage people’s hearts the way Jesus did. He has written a number of books and articles about evangelism and other ways our lives intertwine with God’s creation. He is also the host of Questions That Matter, a podcast of the C. S. Lewis Institute. He and his wife Pam live in Annandale, VA and are grateful for their children and a growing number of grandchildren.