At Praxis Gathering 2018, our fourth annual time together, we will plummet deep into the hands-on-work of Re-Imagining Leadership with unique emphasis on mutual leadership, emotional healthy leadership, five-fold intelligence, multicultural leadership and leadership in the neighborhood. It just so happens that our July webinar speaker will also be a presenter at The Praxis Gathering 2018. We are thrilled to have Mandy Smith join us this year. She is among some of the best on-the-ground church planters and practitioners who will awaken us to the possibilities for lighting a path ahead for soul-healthy leadership in our churches.It has become daily news to see leaders abuse their power or observe their character crumble. In the last few decades we’ve baptized business practices and hierarchical structures—it has ravaged the soul of the Church. We need another way forward. Join us in Philadelphia as we explore the possibilities.
Meet Mandy Smith
Originally from Australia, Mandy Smith is lead pastor of University Christian Church, a campus and neighborhood congregation with its own fair-trade café in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a regular contributor to Christianity Today and Missio Alliance and the author of The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry. She was also the director of Missio Alliance’s 2017 SheLeads summit and creator of The Collect, a citywide trash-to-art project. Mandy and her husband Jamie, a New Testament professor at Cincinnati Christian University, live with their two kids in a little house where the teapot is always warm.
You can join Mandy for these workshops at The Praxis Gathering this year:
Women and Men Together in Leadership
It’s easy to lose hope that men and women really can lead the church together. In all the brokenness, is it really possible that God still has a vision for how we can share his mission? Together we’ll invite God to renew our imaginations for serving the people of God alongside each other.
Vulnerability in Leadership
It seems cruel that God would call imperfect humans to represent Him. What freedom might we find by being willing to test Paul’s promise that in our weakness, God is strong, and daring to let our human limitations be seen? Join the conversation as we re-imagine how we can minister as, and to, humans.
Here is Mandy on The Vulnerable Pastor:
See You in September
Register now for The Praxis Gathering in Philadelphia September 27-29th 2018 to join Mandy Smith and many other in re-imagining Leadership. Follow below and find out more about Mandy.
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