Navigating the Challenges of Ministry and Leadership
Leadership and ministry can be one of the most incredible gifts of your life. It can also be a source of your greatest pains and wounds. Serving, sacrificing your needs for others, trying to lead the way is full of challenges and trials. From the opinions of those you serve to relational conflicts, burnout and organizational scandals, there are a lot of hardships that no one prepares you for. How do you lead others well while being sure to care for your own mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health? How do you deal with the unexpected when you are leading? In this Navigating the Challenges of Ministry and Leadership Pathway, you’ll hear from ministry and business leaders on how they walked through personal struggles, ministry hardships, and leadership pains and found hope in the process. Learning to navigate the difficulties that come your way can be hard, but this pathway will remind you that you are never alone when it comes to finding a way through the challenges of ministry and leadership.
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Some of our greatest pain can come from those we expected to care for and shepherd our souls through suffering. It can be hard to separate who God is from the hurt His people have caused.
How do you move through the pain or abuse that you suffered at the hands of those within your church?
Natalie Runion knows what it is like to feel deeply wounded and disappointed by those who profess Christ. She knows the fallout that can happen when a community turns its back on you and your pain. And yet, as she allowed God to heal her pain, she created a space for others disillusioned and hurt from church or ministry leaders, to hold on to hope and to stay. Her Raised to Stay Community on Instagram includes almost 200,000 followers that walk with her as she contends for healthy and whole churches and ministries.
In this masterclass, Natalie shares what to do When People Fail: Healing from Church Hurt and will help you:
Find ways to heal from church hurt you’ve experienced
Identify the counterfeit connections that can lead to wounding
Begin to work through the process of forgiveness
If you are struggling to reconcile the pain caused by God’s people to who God is in your pain, this masterclass will help you sort it out and find a way forward in healing when people fail you.
Website: natalierunion.com
Instagram: instagram.com/raisedtostay
Facebook: facebook.com/groups/Raisedtostay
Book: The House That Jesus Built: Leading Our Churches Back to God’s Original Blueprint
Book: Raised to Stay: Persevering in Ministry When You Have a Million Reasons to Walk Away
Nothing is Wasted Episode 287 - Raised To Stay After Church Hurt With Natalie Runion: nothingiswasted.com/podcast1/episode-287
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Parenting is hard no matter what the circumstances. How do you navigate the challenges when parenting a child with a disability?
Misty Snyder knows so intimately the shock and fear that can come when discovering your child has a disability. In 2020, she received the unexpected news that her son, Jedidiah, had Down syndrome. In her pain and feelings of isolation, she began to seek a community that could understand and journey with her through the challenges and subsequent joys of raising a child who had different needs.
In this masterclass, Parenting a Child with a Disability: Hope in the Challenges, Misty will teach you:
How to remember God’s purposes for your child’s life
The importance of finding a community to journey alongside
Ways to stay present in parenting your unique child
If you are parenting a child with a disability, this masterclass will encourage you towards hope on your parenting journey.
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When trust is broken in a marriage, it can seem like all hope is lost. What if there was a way forward in a relationship that has experienced betrayal?
Cameron and Karissa Sprinkle have walked that journey. After an affair and addiction threatened to end their marriage, both Cameron and Karissa decided to do the hard work of healing themselves so that they could heal together.
In this masterclass, Restoring Trust in Marriage: Finding a Way Forward After Hurt, Cameron and Karissa Sprinkle will show you how to:
- Own your recovery
- Begin your own healing work
- Make repairs and stumble well
If your marriage has experienced a loss of trust, this masterclass will help you find a way forward.