The Midwest Ministers’ Retreat & Summit—designed to challenge, encourage, and provide practical information to preachers and ministry staff to become better equipped in their ministry roles—is set for Oct. 25-26 at Lincoln (Ill.) Christian University.
The theme “A New Season,” will be developed by speakers Matt Merold, Ben Merold, and Darryl Bolen. Cost is $40, which covers both days, plus meals. Other options include $15 for Monday only or $35 for Tuesday only. Go to lincolnchristian.edu.
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The National Preaching Summit will gather at The Creek in Indianapolis on March 7-8, 2022, focused on the theme, “Preaching in Season and Out of Season (2 Timothy 4:2).”
“The gospel message is simple but can easily get clouded by: [the] pandemic, racial tensions, economic downturn, [and] sexual identity debates,” NPS writes. “At the 2022 National Preaching Summit, learn how to navigate and preach on these tough topics in a way that’s effective and scriptural.”
Speakers will include Mark Scott, Caleb Kaltenbach, Jerry Taylor, and Aaron Brockett. Workshop leaders will include Rob O’Lynn, Jason Poznich, Casey Scott, and Jodi Owens.
Learn more at preachingsummit.com.
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Jack Cottrell, longtime professor of theology at Cincinnati Christian University (who retired in 2015), announced via Facebook that “my cancer has been determined to be incurable.”
Cottrell, the author of more than 20 books on Christian theology and doctrine, said he is stepping down as part-time teaching minister with First Church of Christ, Greendale, Ind. Cottrell said his oncologist has assigned palliative chemotherapy for six months, but “it may have bad side effects” which would make it difficult for him to fulfill his teaching duties at the church.
“Tonight I will teach my final regular lesson for FCC, and perhaps for my 65-year ministry,” Cottrell wrote on Sunday. “I thank God for His mercies, and I thank all of you for your care and prayers.”
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Fortville (Ind.) Christian Church will celebrate its 150th anniversary Sunday with a former minister of the church, Dale Holzbauer, bringing the message, followed by a catered lunch and a community carnival. The church also will start an around-the-clock, out-loud reading of the entire Bible in the church’s lobby that should conclude Wednesday.
The theme of the celebration will be “Rooted,” as in “rooted in the Word,” according to a feature story in the Greenfield Reporter.Â
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The Spire Network recently added three additional speakers to its main session speaker lineup for the 2021 SpireConference set for Sept. 14-16 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. The three new leaders include Mark Moore, author and teaching pastor with Christ’s Church of the Valley in Arizona; Hallerin Hill, singer, songwriter, and host of TV’s Anything Is Possible; and Mike Cosper, host and producer of the podcast, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.
The complete schedule is here. Register at spire.network.
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A major obstacle to growth and a contributor to low team morale “has to do with leaders who fail to delegate,” Ron Edmondson writes at Outreachmagazine.com.
Edmondson lists several reasons leaders fail to delegate, including: (1) it might cause them to appear to be doing less (“Some leaders struggle with giving assignments away for fear that people will think they aren’t working as hard as they could be”); and (2) they fear losing authority (“Delegation, if it is done right, means they give up the right to control every outcome”).
Failure to delegate, he says, “hurts their team’s potential.” See the entire list at Outreach’s website.
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