Thriving Clergy
Thrive In 5: Intellectual October 2024
Thriving organizations understand which seasons require centralized leadership and which seasons call for decentralized leadership.
Thriving Together- October 2024
Your gifts and talents are not just for you; they are to serve others. So it is no longer just about you but about your neighbor—a double responsibility.
Thrive In 5- Relational: Practices that Sustain Community
Today ministry leaders also seek to cultivate such unity of heart, mind, and even resources within the congregation in general and leadership teams in particular.
Thriving Together- September 2024
PreacHer Sunday Is An Open Invitation to Men I might not be a pastor today if it weren’t for men. Before you read that statement and make certain assumptions about my theology, let me explain. Many women in ministry have shared heartbreaking stories of how men (males...
Thriving Together- August 2024
In this edition, we want to celebrate and highlight the thirty-six women ordained in 2024.
Thrive In 5: Physical – Bone Health
The skeletal system is very important to the human body.
Thriving Together- July 2024
I am walking toward fulfilling my calling On December 8, 1991, my journey following the call that God placed on my life began. I joined a Unitarian Church where the calling of women is not acknowledged. This was my first obstacle and also an opportunity to trust in...
Thrive In 5: Spiritual -Vibrant But Ordinary
Sometimes, the best jumpstart to a vibrant spiritual life is a return to ordinary life and tasks.
Thriving Together- June 2024
Shrewd as Snakes, Innocent as Doves (Matthew 10:16) “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.” (Ephesians 5:16) making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. (Joel 2:28) “And afterward,...
Thrive In 5: Emotional: How healthy is the balance in your energy account?
Every day you are either making deposits or withdrawals of energy from your energy account.
Thriving Together- May 2024
Forget What Is Behind and Reach Forward to What is Ahead! 02215. Would you like to take a guess what that number stands for? If you guessed the zip code for Fenway in Boston, then you are correct!! Your prize? Picture me giving you a high five!! 02215 is a number...
Thrive In 5- Relational Freedom with Boundaries
Togetherness creates group identity. Individuality promotes personal identity.
Thrive In 5: Intellectual Five Layers of Ministry Success
The team agreed to filter every aspect of their lives through one key question in pursuit of their lofty goal, “Will it make the boat go faster?”
Thriving Together- April 2024
No matter how important your work, roles, and responsibilities are, you have God’s permission to rest.
Thriving Together-March 2024
Being a woman in ministry sometimes feels like using a pair of right-handed scissors when you are left-handed.
Thrive In 5- Relational Congregation as an Emotional System
How deeply do you, as a church leader, understand how the relationship habits from your own family history support or undermine your ministry leadership?
Thriving Together-February 2024
When I was a teenager, God called me to be a missionary. “Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19-20) This was the verses that God gave me that day and the verses...
Thrive In 5: Physical – Gut Health
This week’s Thrive in 5 will focus on what gut health is and how to improve it.
Thriving Together-December 2023
Unexpected Expectancy Nineteen, unmarried, recently separated from her live-in boyfriend, sick to her stomach, and a pain in her abdomen that she had never experienced before. Could it be? What if it is? What will she do? She needed to be sure. A quick stop at the...
Thrive In 5: Spiritual – Redefine Your Focus
How might we challenge ourselves as pastors and leaders to simplify, refocus, and hone in on the specific places where God wants our attention?
Thrive In 5- Relational Closeness & Distance in the Congregation
Most people want to experience a sense of community in their church.
Thriving Together–November
A call to full-time ministry is a beautiful thing.
Thriving Together–October
Thriving Together is a newsletter for women serving in or preparing for ministerial leadership in The Wesleyan Church. Each month, we want to embody 1 Thessalonians 5:11: “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you...