Workshops
Woodbury Leadership Workshop 2010: Emerging Leadership for an Emerging World
February 4 - 5, 2010, Andover Newton Theological School
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The leadership skills that once led to success in the church don’t insure much of anything any more, except perhaps exhaustion and burnout. Being a preacher, teacher, counselor, caregiver, administrator, program planner, Biblical scholar, historian, ethicist and theologian all rolled into one doesn’t do it either.
There’s a new world emerging and a different kind of ministerial leadership is needed for that world.
This year’s Woodbury Workshop, featuring the innovative Christian leader Brian McLaren, will explore the new demands and dimensions of leadership in the church. It will help you develop a clearer understanding of the practices that are essential to effective and faithful leadership.
To Register:
For a printable registration form and brochure, please click here.
The registration fee is $175 ($160 if payment is received before December 11, 2009). A continental breakfast and lunch on Friday are included in the registration fee.
Housing: We have reserved a limited number of rooms for workshop participants at the Walker Center, located a short drive from the Andover Newton campus. For further information or to make a room reservation, please contact Jen Walker at , or 617-964-1100 x316.
Workshop Leaders:
Brian D. McLaren:
Brian is an author, speaker, pastor, and networker among innovative Christian leaders, thinkers, and activists.
He is a frequent guest on television, radio, and news media programs and has also been covered in Time (where he was listed as one of American’s 25 most influential evangelicals), Christianity Today, Christian Century, the Washington Post, and many other print media.
Brian is the author of numerous best-selling books, including A New Kind of Christian, A Generous Orthodoxy, The Secret Message of Jesus, Everything Must Change, and Finding Our Way Again.
Born in 1956, he graduated from University of Maryland with degrees in English. From 1978 to 1986, Brian taught college English, and in 1982 he helped form Cedar Ridge Community Church, an innovative, nondenominational church in the Baltimore-Washington region.
Brian left higher education in 1986 to serve as the church’s founding pastor and served in that capacity until 2006. He is on the international steering team and board of directors for emergent, a growing generative friendship among missional Christian leaders.
Sarah Drummond:
Sarah is Associate Dean of the Faculty and Assistant Professor of Ministerial Leadership at Andover Newton. She previously served Harvard University as Assistant Dean of Freshmen as well as Chaplain for Religious Education at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.
Sarah's research interests include leadership in theological education, ministerial formation, and institutional change. She teaches and consults in the area of program planning and evaluation for ministry and is the author of Holy Clarity: The Practice of Planning and Evaluation. She is ordained in the United Church of Christ and holds her ministerial standing in the Massachusetts Conference of the UCC.
Jeff Jones:
Jeff teaches courses in congregational life and leadership at Andover Newton, where he also serves as Director of Distance Learning. He maintains his commitment to parish ministry serving as the half-time pastor of the First Baptist Church in Plymouth, MA.
Jeff is the author of Traveling Together: A Guide for Disciple-Forming Congregations and Heart, Mind and Strength: Theory and Practice for Congregational Leadership.
Schedule:
Thursday, February 4:
- 1:00 Registration begins
- 2:00 – 4:00 Opening Worship Session 1: What’s Emerging? with Sarah Drummond and Jeff Jones
- 7:30 – 9:00 Session 2: Open Presentation by Brian McLaren (First Baptist Church in Newton)
Friday, February 5:
- 9:00 – 12:00 Morning Worship Session 3 with Brian McLaren
- 12:00 – 1:30 Free Time– Bookstore Open
- 1:30 – 2:30 Small group sessions
- 2:30 – 3:00 Break
- 3:00 – 4:30 Session 4 with Brian McLaren
