Next Generation Leadership Community

We had our first Next Gen Group 5 Meeting!

It was so great to meet this new group of Next Gen pastors! Truly a great start!

Here are some picture from the meeting:

Group 5 is on its way!

We have 12 Next Gen Pastors signed up to be a part of our Next Generation Pastors' Leadership Community Group 5. We will be full at 16 pastors! If you are interested, please contact us right away! (email Cindi at cindi.haworth@leadnet.org or call us at 214.754.9714)

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What a wonderful meeting in San Diego!

Another wonderful meeting! It was great to see each one of you. Thank you again to Larry Osborne and North Coast Church for being such wonderful hosts! Thank you, Dale and Larry for your wisdom and leading us as mentor pastors. Here are some pictures from San Diego:

 

We are gearing up for our final Groups 3 & 4 meeting!

Can you believe it?! Our fourth and final meeting is November 10-12 - coming up fast! It will be in Vista, CA, at North Coast Church. Here is a meeting agenda - Download NG G3_4 M4 Meeting Schedule

Our Mentor Pastors will be:

Dale Burke
First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton
Founder of Dale Burke Leadership Seminars
Dale Burke is a successful author, sought-after international conference speaker, and senior pastor of the 6,000+ member First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton, California. As the founder of Dale Burke Leadership Seminars, he teaches both ministry and marketplace leaders the principles to maintaining a life of balance without sacrificing the pursuit of excellence. Burke’s books include Take Back Your Life!, How to Lead and Still Have a Life, Less Is More Leadership, A Love That Never Fails, and Different by Design: God’s Master Plan for Harmony Between Men and Women. He has also written numerous magazine and journal articles.

Larry Osborne
North Coast Church
Founder & President, North Coast Training Network
Larry Osborne is a senior pastor at North Coast Church, acclaimed as one of the most influential and innovative churches in America. Under his leadership the church has grown from 128 to over 7,500 on a weekend.
Built around sermon-based small groups, North Coast has maintained a participation rate of over 80 percent of its weekend attendance in small groups for over 22 years. Its growth has come strictly by word of mouth as they do not advertize or hold any special outreach events. Also recognized as pioneers in the multi-site movement, North Coast now offers 24 worship options on five local sites each weekend plus numerous national and international venues.
Larry writes and speaks extensively on the subjects of leadership, healthy teams, innovation, multi-site ministry and spiritual formation. His books include, Sticky Church, 10 Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe, Spirituality for the Rest of Us, and The Unity Factor.

Upcoming Meeting Information

Groups 3 and 4 have another meeting November 17-20, 2008! We are putting the plans together.

If you look to the column on the left, you will see a small section on our Mentor Pastors for our meeting in November.

Mentor pastors are an important part of our meeting and our program. They are pastors who have a heart for helping younger pastors be successful - giving advice based on their past success and failure.

Here is a list of pastors who will be joining us in November:

• Pastor Mark Driscoll
  Mars Hill Church, Seattle, WA
  Mark Driscoll founded Mars Hill Church in Seattle in the fall of 1996, which has grown to over 6,000 people in one of America’s least churched cities. Mars Hill is a multi-site church currently meeting in 7 locations with 20 weekly services.  In 2008 Mars Hill Church was named the the 2nd most innovative church in America (Outreach Magazine). Mark has also co-founded the Acts 29 Church Planting Network, which has planted over one hundred churches in the U.S. and internationally, and founded the Resurgence Missional Theology Cooperative which provides resources to church planters and pastors at theresurgence.org.
  Outreach magazine has recognized Mars Hill Church as the fifteenth fastest-growing church in America and has also ranked Mars Hill Church number two of America’s top multiplying (church-planting) churches. The Church Report has recognized Pastor Mark as the twenty-second most influential pastor in America. His sermons are downloaded five million times a year and he has been recognized by Christianity Today, Inc., as one of the most influential young preachers in America. Seattle magazine has named Pastor Mark as one of the twenty-five most powerful people in Seattle.
  Media coverage on Pastor Mark and Mars Hill varies from National Public Radio to Mother Jones magazine, the Associated Press, the New York Times, Blender music magazine, Outreach magazine, Preaching Today, and Leadership magazine to ABC Television.
  In 2008 Mark published six books including bestseller Vintage Jesus and Death by Love. He also contributed to Above All Earthly Powers, edited by Dr. John Piper.
• Pastor Greg Surratt
  Seacoast Church, Mount Pleasant, SC
  Greg is the founding pastor of Seacoast Church, one of the early adopters of the multi-site model. Seacoast has been recognized by various media as an innovative and influential thought leader in future strategies for church growth and development. Seacoast combines a unique approach to highly participatory worship with a heart for missional evangelism. Greg calls their weekends a “practical, spirit filled, but non-spooky, yet kind of mystical worship experience, done in multiple locations, very inexpensively.” Sounds a little strange, but it seems to be working. Seacoast currently has 29 weekend worship experiences in 13 separate locations.
  Greg is also a founding board member of the Association of Related Churches (ARC), a church planting network that has given birth to 60 churches in the last 6 years.
  
• Dr. Larry Osborne
  North Coast Church, Vista, California
  Larry Osborne is a senior pastor at North Coast Church, acclaimed as one of the most influential and innovative churches in America. Under his leadership the church has grown from 128 to over 7,000 in weekend attendance.
  Built around sermon-based small groups, North Coast has maintained a participation rate of over 80 percent of its weekend attendance in small groups for over 22 years. Its growth has come strictly by word of mouth as they do not advertize or hold any special outreach events. Also recognized as pioneers in the multi-site movement, North Coast now offers 20 worship options on five local sites each weekend plus numerous national and international venues. Larry writes and speaks extensively on the subjects of leadership, healthy teams, innovation, multi-site ministry and spiritual formation.

Our Mentor Pastors

If you look to the column on the left, you will see a small section on our Mentor Pastors for our meeting in April.

Mentor pastors are an important part of our meeting and our program. They are pastors who have a heart for helping younger pastors be successful - giving advice based on their past success and failure.

Here is a list of pastors who will be joining us in April:

• Pastor Michael L. Henderson Sr.
  New Beginnings Community Church, Matthews, NC
  Pastor Henderson is committed to seeing persons come to total wholeness through the Word of God. He conducts leadership conferences, men’s conferences, staff development trainings and marriage retreats along with his wife.
• Pastor John Jenkins
  First Baptist Church of Glenarden, Landover, MD
  Pastor John Jenkins has served as the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Glenarden since 1989. Since his installation, the church membership has grown from 500 to over 7,000. Under his leadership, the church provides more than 104 ministries. He has a real heart for senior pastor health and issues surrounding it.
• Dr. Larry Osborne
  North Coast Church, Vista, CA
  NorthCoast Church is know for its innovative approach to ministry. It pioneered the use of Video Worship Venues as an intentional ministry strategy offering a variety of worship styles andlocations to expand both demographic and geographic outreach. North Coast also pioneered theuse of sermon-based small groups (a lecture/lab model that delves deeper into the weekend message).

Next Generation Leadership Community Website Resources

Here are some resources developed from our previous Next Generation Pastors’ Groups. Please check them out!

Communicating With the Postmodern Culture: Authenticity and Truth!
“Wow is out; real is in.” Next Generation pastors have observed a significant shift in the culture. Pastor Toby Slough observes, “If we’ll invest the time and effort we used to spend in ‘Wow!” and put those resources into authenticity, people will come in droves, and they’ll respond to even the most demanding truths in the Scriptures.”

Creating a Culture of Balance: A Mandate for Next Generation Pastors
This concept paper exposes many of the stresses and struggles that next generation pastors—senior pastors in their 20s and 30s who are growing in influence and impact—are dealing with, and opens conversations to creating a balance between the demands of a busy schedule, a growing congregation and maintaining spiritual vitality.

Balancing Ministry Demands: an Interview with John Jenkins
Walk through a week with next generation pastor, John Jenkins as he discusses the importance of finding balance amidst the many stresses and demands of ministry. By establishing boundaries and setting priorities after an eye opening life crisis John has found a healthy balance in his ministry as the pastor of First Baptist Church of Glenarden.

If you have any trouble downloading these or any resources, please contact
Cindi Haworth.

How do I Join?

Group 3 is full, but we are looking for pastors to take part in Group 4.

The cost of our two-year program is $2,500 (one time payment). You can also split it into 2 payments of $1,500. This fee covers all 4 meetings and program materials. Travel, hotel and all other related expenses are the responsibility of the participant and are not included in the fee.

We ask that you commit to attending all 4 meetings:

• April 9-10, 2008 (Dallas, TX)
• November 19-20, 2008 (Dallas, TX)
• April 22-23, 2009 (Dallas, TX)
• October 22-27, 2009 (TBD) - Combined Groups 3 and 4. Location and format TBD

If you fit the criteria (senior pastor – 44 years old or younger and your church's weekend worship attendance is 800 or over) for the Next Generation Pastors' Leadership Community. We would love to talk to you!

Please download this form - Download NGApplicationToInterview.doc

Send it back to Cindi Haworth (email or fax - 972.692.7536) and we will set up an interview with Linda Stanley.

Testimonial Videos

We have some video clips from pastors in Group 1 talking about their experience in the Next Generation Pastors' Leadership Community. Click on the links in the right sidebar under "Testimonial Videos" to see/hear these senior pastors talk about the value of their participation in the Next Generation Leadership Community.

Welcome to the Next Generation Leadership Community site!

Welcome to our webpage! We have an "official page" on the Leadership Network website - here is some more information about us and our group.

Historically, Leadership Network has consistently sought out ministry thought leaders who blaze the trail for those who follow. Innovative leadership is one of the critical elements essential to the health, growth and multiplication of faith communities in North America and globally. The Next Generation Pastors Leadership Community exists to create relational peer networks of senior pastors who share similar ministry challenges and desire connections to other leaders serving in similar ministry situations. Beyond relational connections, senior pastors have opportunities to exchange ideas and ministry methodologies, deepen personal leadership qualities, and to encourage and pray for one another.

Next Generation Pastors (Life Stages 1) is designed for senior pastors age 25-44, leading a church of 800+ attendance and serving in the lead pastor role for at least 3 years. These leaders are life-long learners desiring mentoring from more seasoned leaders as they work through leadership challenges in the early stages of their ministry careers.

To the left you can see a list of pastors who have joined the current Next Gen groups that are beginning now (Groups 3 & 4). You can also see a list of our alumni pastors who were in our Next Generation Groups 1 & 2.