American Baptist Churches of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Leadership Learning Communities

Encouraging Pastors Personally and Professionally

 

Leadership Learning Communities (LLC) are small groups of pastors who gather together to cultivate healthy vital relationships, both personally and professionally. This is a crucial part of fulfilling the region's vision to build healthy partnerships with Churches, Pastoral Leaders and the wider ABC Family.

The LLC's are designed to address three issues among pastoral leaders: 1) The need for leadership training; 2) The need to address isolation among church leaders; and 3) The need to address the debilitation of loneliness and the feelings of insignificance among church leaders.

Each LLC is led by a Mentor Pastor who will choose the members of his/her LLC and facilitate the group meetings.  The group size will be limited to no fewer than three and no more than six participants, plus the Mentor Pastor. We also hope that each Mentor Pastor will encourage an apprentice who will eventually develop their own LLC.

Guides for the LLC Group Meetings can be found on out FaceBook page:

ABCOPAD LLC Facebook Link


 

ABCOPAD LEADERSHIP LEARNING COMMUNITY

MEETING MODEL

  • 90 minutes... to catch up for everyone to give personal and ministry related updates
  • 30 minutes... for intentional prayer
  • Lunch Together (sack lunches and potlucks save time and create community!)
  • 2 hours... for discussion about the reading - focusing on personal and professional application

MINISTRY BASIS & BENEFITS 

Philosophical Basis

  • The need for Leadership Training
  • The need to address isolation among church leaders and churches
  • The need to address the debilitation of loneliness and feelings of insignificance among church leaders

 

Benefits

  • The dynamic of small group support
  • The benefit of the integration of information
  • The value of plural leadership learning (integration and application)
  • The empowering of the vision for Vital Healthy Pastors and Churches
For more information about our Leadership Learning Communities
Contact the region office: 888-687-0883


LINK: LLC Reading Vault - A bibliography of our previous reading lists