Thrive In 5: Financial: May 2025
Saving for short and long-term goals is most likely going to be a part of every pastor’s financial planning
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Thrive in Five: Intellectual: March 2025
Adaptive Leadership for Wesleyan Pastors in an Era of Change In a time of rapid cultural shifts, declining denominational loyalty, and increasing polarization, Wesleyan pastors must navigate complex challenges. Traditional leadership approaches may no longer suffice....
Thrive in Five: Relational: February 2025
In his book People Fuel: Fill Your Tank for Life, Love, and Leadership, Dr. John Townsend identifies 22 nutrients that enrich relationships. When these nutrients are present in our relationships, then we can be more open to others, more creative, and more...
Thrive in Five: January 2025
Taking care of the heart is foundational to all health goals.
Thrive In 5-The Importance of Home and Housing Allowance for Pastors
More churches are realizing this and are now helping pastors buy their own homes instead.
Thrive In 5: Grieving Well
Grief is the process through which “weeping may spend the night but there is joy in the morning”
Thrive In 5: Intellectual October 2024
Thriving organizations understand which seasons require centralized leadership and which seasons call for decentralized leadership.
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.
Thrive In 5: Physical – Bone Health
The skeletal system is very important to the human body.
Thrive In 5: Spiritual -Vibrant But Ordinary
Sometimes, the best jumpstart to a vibrant spiritual life is a return to ordinary life and tasks.
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.
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?”
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?
Thrive In 5: Physical – Gut Health
This week’s Thrive in 5 will focus on what gut health is and how to improve it.
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.
Thrive In 5: Spiritual – Increase Your Resilience
There is a paradox between the strength and fragility of the human soul.
ECD Clergy Care Resources
en Español ECD Home Ordination & Credentialing Thriving Clergy Wesleyan Education Our Team Education & Clergy Development offers a variety of resources to help clergy and spouses to be healthy, fit and effective in their ministry and personal lives. Here you...
Thrive In 5: Healthy Sleep
One-third of all Americans report difficulty sleeping. Did you know that sleep has a vital role in physical health and can be considered just as important to health as nutrition and exercise?
Thrive In 5: Intellectual – A Biblical Pattern for Problem Solving
As Pastoral leaders, we often encounter a myriad of problems that test our resilience, problem-solving skills, and ability to adapt.
Thrive In 5: Emotional – Conscious or unconscious empathy?
God created us with a hard-wired capacity to sense and respond to the emotions of others
Thrive In 5: Physical -Everyday Physical Activity
Any movement is better than no movement! Consistent daily movement can add up over time and result in health benefits.
Creating a “Blue Ocean” Local Church Strategy
The Blue Ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2004 book titled, “Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant” by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. The authors theorized that instead of focussing on competition...