Church Leadership

Sending, Serving, Reaching: TCM International Institute

TCM International Institute equips international Christian leaders for service in their home countries through graduate ministry education, while U.S. Christians support students through scholarships and short-term service.

What We Learned

Brad Neal reflects on lessons learned as church elders walked through ministry failure, repentance, forgiveness, and public restoration, discovering how accountability and grace can lead a congregation toward…

Celebrating the Restoration of a Broken-World Brother

Don Green recounts a 20-month pastoral restoration process involving accountability, counseling, confession, reconciliation, and a public service celebrating a minister’s restored fellowship with the church.

Our Elders May Function Differently Than Yours

Stephen Bond explains how Summit Christian Church approaches elder selection, term limits, leadership, and decision-making while challenging assumptions that Scripture requires one model of church governance.

Cultivating Cultures that Help People Flourish

What’s a Leader to Do?

Steve Hayner outlines practical ways leaders can shape a healthy organizational culture through careful assessment, intentional planning, open communication, meaningful rituals, and prayer.

What Makes a Culture Good?

Steve Hayner explores the qualities of a healthy organizational culture, including Christ-centered leadership, a shared sense of calling, open communication, trust, gratitude, affirmation, and celebration.

Nurturing Your Organization’s Culture

Steve Hayner examines how leaders shape organizational culture, why unhealthy cultures develop, and why primary leaders bear a unique responsibility for nurturing communities where people can flourish.

Sowing the Seed

Bob Russell reflects on childhood Scripture memorization, his call to ministry, and a lifetime of witnessing the remarkable power of God’s Word through expository preaching.

Get Out of the Way!

David L. Clark reflects on the lesson that transformed his preaching: let Scripture determine what comes next, allowing the biblical text rather than personal preference or popular culture…

Our Year in Deuteronomy

Mike Baker reflects on what happened when his congregation spent 54 weeks in Deuteronomy—and how preaching through the book strengthened biblical teaching, encouraged deeper study, and uncovered relevant…

Beyond How-to

Leadership techniques matter, but character comes first. Mark A. Taylor reflects on the hunger for trustworthy leaders and why those who lead for God must look beyond methods…

Advice for New Ministers and Their Churches

What helps new ministers flourish in their first year? Mark W. Hamilton explores what churches should provide—and what congregations should reasonably expect from young ministers in return.

Talking Church

Peer coaching cohorts give preachers a place to share ministry challenges, ask precise questions, exchange practical insights, and find encouragement from fellow leaders who understand the pressures they…

Equipping Volunteer Leaders

The Crossing’s Ministry Development Institute equips volunteer leaders through an 18-month program combining in-depth biblical teaching, spiritual formation, practical ministry training, reading, video lessons, and online discussion.