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Heading to Kansas!

by David Alexander on April 24, 2009

Today my family and I are heading out for a weekend trip to the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Kansas City, Kansas.If you’ve never heard about Church of the Resurrection, here’s some info from their website.
The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection has grown from four people in 1990 to over 12,000 adult members [...]

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A Letter from Adam

by David Alexander on January 3, 2009

I received this email tonight from Rev. Adam Hamilton regarding my next gathering with the Young Pastors Network in Jacksonville near the end of this month. I’m very excited about this next gathering as I get to bring my wife along. Here’s what Adam had to share about what’s being planned for the agenda.
I’d be [...]

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January Retreat

by David Alexander on December 4, 2008

I received an email a few days ago from the Catalyst ministry at Church of the Resurrection with details about our next gathering of the Young Pastors Network coming up in January of ‘09. At the conclusion of our last gathering that location was still unknown as they were in the process of waiting on [...]

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Strategic Planning

by David Alexander on November 6, 2008

Our final session at the Young Pastors Network gathering was led by Rev. Adam Hamilton and was titled, “Strategic Planning.” These are the notes I took from this final session.
Mike Slaughter, Brian McLaren, and Adam Hamilton each gave one of these three ideals in response to the question, what are the most important ideals needed [...]

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Strategic Leadership pt. II

by David Alexander on November 3, 2008

This post is a continuation of my notes from Adam Hamilton’s session on “Strategic Leadership” at the first gathering of the Young Pastors Network. To read the previous notes, click here.
I thought this quote from Adam was interesting in relationship to preaching. He said, “I don’t always preach something that I’m practicing, but I never [...]

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Strategic Leadership pt.I

by David Alexander on October 31, 2008

Our third session of YPN was led by Adam Hamilton and titled, “Strategic Leadership.” Last week was the first time that I had ever met or heard Mike Slaughter speak although I had heard of him and Ginghamsburg for years. I was much more familiar with Adam because of my attendance at his church’s Leadership [...]

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Prophetic Leadership

by David Alexander on October 30, 2008

Our second session at the Young Pastors Network gathering was on the subject of Prophetic leadership and was led by Mike Slaughter. Mike started out the session by talking a little bit about the Jesus Movement of the 1970’s which he described as “an awakening” which pointed to a future “reformation.”
In Mike’s understanding, the Jesus [...]

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New Research among Young Clergy

by David Alexander on October 30, 2008

I received an email today with some new research regarding the number of Young Clergy in the United Methodist Church. Since I referenced some of those old figures a few days ago in this post, I thought I would share the update I received.
The Lewis Center has issued a new version of Clergy Age Trends [...]

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