A few times per year, TMC curates some resources and content that our team is either paying close attention to or has developed ourselves, organized by topics that we see as especially relevant to a broad range of contexts. Pastors and lay leaders frequently utilize these resources to prompts conversations with their boards, small group contexts, and other engagements. Please use these resources in whatever way is most helpful to you in your context. Let us know if you need guidance on how to utilize or structure these resources, and either way, please let us know how it’s going!
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I was the Facilitator for the first New York City cohort, and at the time, I was working in theological education on Christian leadership formation, so it seemed like a natural fit. What I discovered, though, was something quite different from my “day job.” While the content and topics of the curriculum was a crucial part of our gatherings, it was the community of mutual care and support that made the content relevant, not the other way around. And second, having three years of strong bonding created an extraordinarily resilient community that, in turn, was able to build up resilience in our leaders. I think every member of my cohort went through significant seasons of both joy and heartache, professionally and vocationally, during our time. And the cohort, in turn, lived out the exhortation of Romans 12:15, “rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep,” with a depth and integrity that I have rarely experienced, and often doing both in the same gathering. It was a privilege and a blessing to me and my own faith and ministry to be their facilitator, and I am eternally grateful to the Ministry Collaborative for calling me to that work!”
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