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Pastor, are you ready to inspire, challenge, and re-energize your Lay Leaders with dynamic training designed to spur transformational leadership growth? If your answer is “absolutely!”, then I would love to share my training program -- The Leadership School: Practical Tools for Highly Effective Lay Leaders.
The Leadership School is comprised of two intensive educational workshops with a focus on two key themes for lay leadership development. The first workshop is "Expanding Horizons: Missional Lay Leadership for the 21st Century" and the second is "Strong Marriages: Building Love, Intimacy, & Financial Excellence.
Why these two workshops? Because after 30+ years of pastoral ministry training hundreds of lay leaders in multiple settings, I have come to the following conclusion. That is, the active and committed practice of these interconnected themes are unequivocally essential to the wholistic development of highly effective 21st century church lay leaders!
The Leadership School workshops are down-to-earth presentations with real-life applications infused with deepend theological application. The recommended conference schedule is comprised of four sessions in two separate Saturdays. Each Saturday includes a morning session from 9 AM to 12 PM session and an afternoon session from 1 PM to 4 PM. Each Saturday schedule includes a one-hour lunch break.
The "Expanding Horizons: Missional Lay Leadership for the 21st Century" workshop is designed to help lay leaders, among other themes, understand their personal leadership style and preferences...become adept in the art of conflict resolution, execute their ministries in their local churches with a "missional" mindset, and help them develop a transformational styles of leadership in the model of Jesus of Nazareth. The fundamental premise of the workshop is simple: No one is “born” a “great leader,” but rather a “great leader” is one who “gives birth to and then nurtures,” over the long term, his or her own set of transformational leadership traits!
The "Strong Marriages: Building Love, Intimacy, & Financial Excellence" workshop (co-led with my spouse, Zaida) is designed to help lay leaders discover what a transformational model of marriage looks like. One based on absolute equality, deepened emotional connection, healthy intimacy and emotional affection, practical conflict-solving strategies, and the fundamental disciplines of true financial excellence. In our immersive marriage workshop, we weave 45 years of our own mutual experiences and discoveries with the practical insights of some of the best resources in the marriage growth community.
Let's connect and plan for a transformational workshop! CLICK HERE to start the conversation, answer your questions, and begin the planning process.
who is luis?
Luis is a retired pastor deeply passionate about lay church leadership training and development.
He's a graduate of the University of Massachusetts (Lowell, MA) with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Eden Theological Seminary (St. Louis, MO) with a Master of Divinity. Additional advanced and executive level training includes interim ministries, strategic planning, and executive coaching. Luis is presently a student in the Doctor of Ministry in Creative Leadership program at Central Seminary (Kansas City, KS).
After seminary, Luis served concurrently for 30+ years in two unique settings. The first setting included one new church development followed by eight intentional interims in two denominations -- the United Church of Christ (UCC) and Presbyterian Church (USA), PCUSA. The second setting he served included Navy Chaplaincy on both active and reserve duty in a variety of shore, sea, and two oversees commands. In 2020 he retired in the rank of Navy Captain (06) after 25 years as a Chaplain. In 2023, he "officially" retired from congregational ministry. His ministry background also includes stints teaching homiletics and biblical studies in Asbury Theological Seminary's Latino/Latina Studies Program.
Luis' earliest roots lie in the Pentecostal tradition and his faith connections are multidenominational. He and his spouse worship at a Spanish-speaking Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) congregation.
Luis now continues his passion for ministry by leading workshops (The Leadership School) in lay leadership training and development. He also provides preaching/pulpit supply ministry to churches from a number of denominational settings.
Luis loves traveling (thus far, 45 countries), investing in real estate, and spending time with the people that mean the most to him. The most important titles in his life are "husband", "dad", and "wedo" (grandpa).