A network of theological education and organization leadership experts that provides consulting, coaching and training to theological institutions.

Mission

To promote a church-based movement of holistic leadership training in partnership with theological institutions.

Vision

Church leadership committed to promote a culture of leadership development, advancing multiplying churches who transform their communities and the world!

Our Values

Church-Focused

We believe that the church sits at the heart of God’s leadership development strategy as the natural, rich environment in which whole-life leadership development and discipleship can be fostered. Our final aim is to place the leadership responsibility into the hands of the local church by strengthening local theological institutions to equip the church leadership and continue to provide development and support to local churches as needed.

Connecting Churches and Institutions of Theological Education

A church will only be as healthy as its leadership. We want to strengthen local Theological Institutions to effectively equip and empower the church leadership. We encourage partnerships between local churches and theological institutions in a cooperative relationship.

Scalable and Transferable Leadership Training Approach

Our desire is to establish a Leadership training network (Theological Institutions and Churches) to ignite a movement that facilitates a paradigm shift in leadership through contextualized, transformational, transferable and sustainable leadership training.

Competency Based Leadership Training

Pastors receive high quality master-level training that changes their live, leadership and ministry through competency-based, in-ministry, and mentor-guided education.

Holistic and Continuous Development

Leaders are role models. They lead by being continuous and transformational learners. Leadership Training aims at developing the Head, Heart and Hands of Christians in and through the local church. Knowledge acquisition (Head) occurs side by side with character formation (Heart) and skills training (Hands). Learning is approached in a facilitative style and is supported by mentoring and supervised service.

Development that Transforms the Church Itself

The approach may result in the honest assessment of and desire to reshape the church’s culture as the church becomes more conscious of its own norms, practices and beliefs about discipleship and leadership development.

Shared Leadership

Leadership training implies experiential learning through Mutual respect and growth through developmental partnerships, which requires that leadership responsibilities and authority be shared. This is a departure from the traditional pastor-centric model, where the pastor is the sole caretaker of souls and wields considerable power and influence over the flock, to a five-fold leadership approach (Eph 4.11)

Sharing of Lives

Individual and community transformation takes place not only through Coaching, Mentoring, Modeling and Training. It takes place by working side by side and genuinely sharing our lives with those we serve.

Kingdom Impact

We want to foster change that will transform individual lives, organizations and communities. Serving locally means entering into the lives of the local people, honoring them and building trust. In the process, our lives are transformed as much as the lives of the people we serve.

Our Team

Ditmar Pauck, D.Min, MS.L&OD

Regional Director with Allianz-Mission and International Catalyst with CCBT.

Augustinho Santana, PhD

Pastor, theologian, Director of Seminario Biblico do Nordeste (Brazil), OC Logistical Coordinator (Northeast of Brazil), and GATE Associate.

Murilo R. Melo, ThM, MD, PhD

Theologian, visiting professor at CDL (Mozambique), teaching assistant at Dallas Theological Seminary.

Tom Sweeney, DMin

CBTE and e-learning specialist, professor and International Catalyst with CCBT.

Rubens Luz, M.Ed.

Regional Director with SEPAL in Portugal. Professor at STB (Lisbon), mentor/coach to pastors.

Maura Pauck, PhD, Ind & Org. Psych.

Senior Consultant, Talent & Org. Capability / Business Transformation

Wilson de Azevedo Filho, DMin (abd)

Pastor of Koinonia Baptist Church (Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil), business consultant, and former lecturer in Business Administration at Moura Lacerda and COC.