Leaders Who Last: Sustaining Yourself and Your Ministry

Is church leadership a recipe for burnout? How can leaders last? There’s a way to approach ministry that’s sustainable: leaders can learn to focus on themselves and the resources they bring to their leadership rather than trying harder to help, fix or change others. This program will show how leaders can make a difference while sustaining themselves through the ups and downs of church life. It will help leaders become more thoughtful about the challenges they face and respond with more clarity, calm and creativity as they move forward together. When leaders know themselves, know their purpose and know their context, ministry can prosper. This program will enhance leaders’ understanding in these three key areas, making their work of leadership easier and more effective.
Leadership: Margaret Marcuson works with churches who want to create a ministry that lasts and clergy who want to have more impact on the people they serve best. She speaks and writes on leadership and works with church leaders in the U.S. and Canada as a consultant and coach. Margaret is the author of 111 Tips to Survive Pastoral Ministry, Leaders who Last: Sustaining Yourself and Your Ministry (Seabury) and Money and Your Ministry: Balance the Books While Keeping Your Balance (forthcoming). She has taught in the Leadership in Ministry workshop, a family systems training program for clergy, since 1999. An American Baptist minister, Margaret was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Gardner, Massachusetts, for 13 years. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband of 32 years, where she is active in the First Baptist Church.

Printable Flyer for this Program

For more information on Margaret Marcuson visit her website: www.margaretmarcuson.com

The following are articles writen by Margaret Marcuson:

http://margaretmarcuson.com/blog/2012/09/21/four-options-for-church-leaders-to-try/

http://margaretmarcuson.com/blog/2012/08/24/ten-reasons-to-celebrate-that-your-church-doesnt-have-enough-money/

The cost of this program has been significantly subsidized thanks to a generous gift from Hamilton Conference.