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L3 Leadership Incubator

By Barry Carpenter, Craig Kennet Miller, Craig Robertson

Although some people are lucky enough to be born leaders, most people are not. The seminal training pastors receive idealizes self-reliance. By leading in isolation, some pastors often lose their sense of purpose and develop a defeatist attitude when faced with declining memberships and budgets.

The L3 Leadership Incubator offers a radical alternative: Leaders are formed in community with other leaders. This initiative creates an environment where spiritual leaders are mutually coached, nurtured, and developed.

What does "L3" stand for?

  • L1 stands for loving: Loving God and neighbor.
  • L2 stands for learning: Participants learn together as they understand their personal gifts and abilities, as they investigate the current reality of their context and congregation, and as they plan for the future.
  • L3 stands for leading: Participants will lead by implementing an Incubator Ministry Action Plan with others in their particular setting.

These three components are a part of every L3 Incubator session.

Participants make a commitment to meet regularly for peer-to-peer learning and coaching as they develop a ministry action plan for their congregations. As a participant, you'll rekindle your passion and gifts for disciple-making ministry that will make a difference. You'll learn best practices for leading with integrity and innovation.

Realize your potential as the agent of transformation in your congregation and community!

Six copies of this guidebook are included in the L3 Leadership Incubator Kit, which includes:

  • one Start-up Guide
  • six copies of the L3 Leadership Incubator Guidebook
  • one copy of the L3 DVD
  • access code to the L3 Incubator website
  • access code for a one-year subscription to the Church Vitality Indicator (CVI) website
 
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