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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 increased leadership, personal, and spiritual 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 a series of three advanced, intensive, and interconnected educational workshops focused on the "wholistic" growth of your lay leadership.
The workshops are: Expanding our Leadership Capabilities, Developing our Financial Excellence, and Reimagining the Church for Today and Tomorrow.
Why these three themes? Because after 30 years of pastoral ministry training hundreds of lay leaders in multiple settings, I have come to the following conclusion: these three themes are extremely essential to the holistic development of highly effective church lay leaders. The Leadership School workshops are comprised of practical, theoretical, and theological elements interwoven with real-life applications.
The most common model used to hold The Leadership School is a Saturday conference consisting of a six-hour workshop (plus a 30-minute lunch break). Although the initial conference in the series is usually the Expanding Our Capabilities in Leadership workshop, you have the option to choose any one of the three as the starting point. If desired, the other two conferences and respective workshops can be held during any future time of the year.
I am always available to help you plan The Leadership School using other options that take into account your pastoral preference or what works best for your lay leadership team.
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.
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. After seminary, he 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 and Presbyterian Church (USA).
The second setting he served included Navy Chaplaincy on both active and reserve duty in a variety of shore, sea, and oversees commands. In 2020 he retired in the rank of Navy Captain (06) after 25 years as a Navy Chaplain. In 2023, he "officially retired" from congregational ministry.
His ministry background also includes stints teaching homiletics and biblical studies at Asbury Seminary's Latino/Latina Studies Program.
His background has been described by some as "fascinating." His original religious roots lie in the Pentecostal tradition, he has served as a pastor in UCC and PCUSA congregations, and worships 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 and his availability in providing preaching/pulpit supply ministry in a number of multidenominational settings.
In his spare time, he enjoys supporting his local faith community, traveling the world (35+ countries), investing in real estate, and spending time with the people that mean the most to him.
Perhaps the most important aspect of who he is are the most important titles in his life. They are, "husband" (married for over 44 years with the smartest retired church history professor and most beautiful woman in the world), "dad" (a father of two amazingly wonderful adult children), and "wedo" (grandpa) of the smartest and most beautiful 8-year old granddaughter in the world.