Last week I returned home in the cold and the rain and took my dog out to the backyard like we do every time I come home. The backyard was covered in a blanket of wet leaves as it has been for the last week but I noticed lots of white dots covering the leaves. I...
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What You Cannot Not Do
Years ago, a colleague quoted from a little book that came to change my life, Let Your Life Speak. If you’ve spent any time around me you’ve heard me quote it, preach from it, coach from it and I may have even given you a copy of it. Let Your Life Speak is authored by...
How is COVID impacting your congregation?
We know that the pandemic’s impact has been felt far and wide and we want to understand more about its impact on your congregation now, and in the future post-pandemic era. We need your wisdom, experience and insight in order to determine how best to meet the needs of...
Summit Coach Training with Pinnacle Leadership Associates
Explore the coach training program with Pinnacle Leadership Associates. We are working together to offer quality, ICF core-competency and ethics based, thought-provoking and fun coach training. If you are interested in this training or would like more information...
Drop-In Consulting
We are living in unprecedented times that are creating new challenges for clergy and faith leaders. I am writing to you today to tell you about a unique opportunity to get the help you need from the Center for Congregational Health. Because of the generous support of...
Group Coaching Cohort coming soon.
By Rev. Dr. Charity Roberson What does it look like to build a life that honors what really matters to me? Does how I spend my time reflect what I say I value? Does my ministry reflect what I say I value? After Elijah’s triumphant moment on Mount Carmel and a sign...
New Lilly Endowment Inc. Grant Awarded to the Center
In the spring of 2019, The Center for Congregational Health received an invitation from the Lilly Endowment to apply for a grant as part of a new initiative they are calling "Thriving Congregations." Immediately, we began work researching this topic and soliciting...
What’s the BIG DEAL with coach training?
by Beth Kennett I regularly hear questions about coach training--Why are so many people becoming coaches? Why is coach training popping up in so many places? What makes your coach training any different from anybody else's? What is the big deal with becoming a...
The Interdenominational Theological Center Graduating Class of 2019!
Recently, was the time of year that graduation ceremonies are held at schools across the nation. Two members of the Center for Congregational Health’s faculty, Dr. Marvin L. Morgan and Dr. B. Leslie Robinson, Jr., celebrated the completion of their work with students...
Sirens and Warning Signs
One morning on my drive into work, I was in traffic, on the interstate, that was inching along—three lanes in each direction, barely moving. I heard a siren in the distance, I looked in my rear-view mirror, I could not see lights flashing and I noticed that no one...