The Steward Leader Workshop

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Seminar 1: Becoming a Faithful Steward Leader

• Purpose: To move leaders beyond reactive, task-focused leadership toward a deeper, more biblically grounded understanding of leading as faithful stewards of all that God has entrusted to us. (Secondary purpose is to train future facilitators to lead and teach this course.)
• Format: Seminar to be presented during three 5 to 6 hour days that include interactive lecture presentations, small groups discussion, and time for personal reflection and application. Each day will include coffee/tea breaks and time for a noon meal. A certificate of completion will be offered to all who fully participate during all three days.
• Core Topics
  • Biblical foundations of steward leadership
  • Integral mission and application of wholistic gospel principles
  • Understanding the difference between an owner-leader and a steward-leader mindset.
  • Balancing leadership responsibilities in work, ministry, marriage, and home.
  • Developing greater personal intimacy with God as a foundation for leadership
  • Understanding personal identity and responding to competing perspectives shaping our identiy.
  • Developing a steward-life plan for ongoing leadership success
• Outcomes: By the end of the seminar, participants will be able. . .
  • To distinguish between servant leadership and steward leadership and apply its principles to real-life challenges.
  • To apply wholistic gospel principles across life’s four key relationships, strengthening both personal discipline and public leadership impact.
  • To experience greater balance between leadership responsibilities, marriage, and family whole cultivating deeper intimacy with God.
  • To gain practical tools for stewarding time, talent, and treasure using biblical principles that promote sustainability, accountability, and faithfulness.
• Participant Expectations
  • To engage in a highly interactive environment that encourages reflection, discussion and personal application.
  • Willingness to examine their own current leadership assumptions and commit to personal and spiritual growth through biblical stewardship principles
  • For those interested, to consider becoming approved facilitators able to present this same training material to others as a means of spreading the value of steward leadership principles.

 Seminar 2: In His Grip

• Purpose: To help Christian leaders understand the dramatic new forces both shaking and shaping God’s Chu8rch in today’s world and to equip them in navigating with biblical clarity, courage, and spiritual resilience.
• Format: A highly interactive four-hour seminar designed to engage with fast-paced presentations but also thoughtful discussions that apply the content to personal contexts. The seminar will include a meal together over which the presented topics will be further discussed.
• Core Topics:
  • Understanding the “new normal” shaped by global trends in AI, technology, moral relativism, and shifting socio-political movements.
  • Responding to changing missional realities, including post-Christian contexts, Africa’s growing youth population, and evolving new missional strategies.
  • Facing modern leadership challenges such as identity, faithfulness, stewardship of time, marriage and family—all in a radically new cultural environment.
  • Exploring six key practices that help leaders remain spiritually grounded, resilient, and effective in uncertain times.
• Outcomes:
  • Clearer understanding of global, cultural, and missional forces shaping today’s leadership landscape.
  • A biblical framework and practical tools to stand firm in faith while wisely engaging in new technology, culture, and social discourse.
  • Renewed clarity about a leaders’ identity in Christ and the increased importance of applying that identity in context of today’s leadership challenges.
• Participant Expectations
  • To engage thoughtfully with the challenging context in discussion and reflection.
  • To come prepared for honest reflection on current leadership challenges based on recent cultural trends.
  • To commit to personal growth and prayerful dependence on God in an attitude of humility and learning.
  • To come with a desire to better understand our times and how to respond faithfully and courageously as God’s leaders of tomorrow.