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the leadership school...
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 several key themes central to lay leadership development. The first workshop is "Growing Transformational Congregations and Lay Leaders for the 21st Century" and the second is "Strong Marriages: Love, Intimacy, & Money."
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
exceptionally interconnected themes -- church, leadership, marriage, and
money -- 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.
Inspiring Transformational Leaders and Congregations for the 21st Century is designed to help lay leaders recognize and foster the profile of a highly transformational congregation…analyze healthy leadership models…discover and manage their leadership style…develop their skills in the art of conflict resolution…and execute their ministries in their local churches with a missional mindset modeled after Jesus of Nazareth.
The Passionate Marriages: Building Love, Intimacy, and Financial Excellence (co-led with my wife, 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 with a deep passion for training lay and clergy leadership in Christian churches.
He graduated from the University of Massachusetts (Lowell, MA) with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and from Eden Theological Seminary (St. Louis, MO) with a Master of Divinity. Luis has additional advanced training in interim ministry, strategic planning, and executive coaching. He is currently a student in the Doctor of Ministry program in Creative Leadership at Central Seminary (Kansas City, KS).
After graduating from seminary, Luis served simultaneously for over 30 years in two ministry settings. The first setting included the development of a new Hispanic mission in St. Louis, MO, followed by eight interim ministries in two denominations: the United Church of Christ (UCC) and the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA). His second setting was as a Navy Chaplain (both reserve and active) in a variety of commands on land, at sea, and abroad. In 2020, he retired with the rank of Navy Captain (06) after 25 years as a military chaplain. His ministry experience also included teaching stints as a homiletics and biblical studies instructor in the former Latino/Latina Studies Program at Asbury Theological Seminary (Orlando).
Luis is an ordained UCC minister, and he and his wife (Dr. Zaida Maldonado) worship at a Spanish-speaking Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) congregation in North Orlando. His early Christian roots come from the Pentecostal tradition, and his faith connections are multidenominational. He now continues his passion for ministry by leading leadership training and development workshops through his ministry, Evangel Strategies. When able, Luis also provides pulpit supply/preaching services in a wide variety of Christian denominations.
He loves traveling (currently 45 countries), investing in real estate, and spending time with the most important people in his life. His favorite titles are "husband," "father," and "grandfather" ("buedo").