Are you a ministry leader looking to deepen your leadership skills and amplify your impact within your church or organization? Join us for five weeks of practical learning and engagement with peers in ministry, guided by seasoned leadership coaches. This series is designed specifically for ministry leaders—pastors, elders, lay leaders, and volunteers—providing tools and strategies to help you navigate the unique challenges of ministry leadership with authenticity, grace, and effectiveness.

A $399 value exclusively for the Ministry Forum audience generously subsized by Ministry Forum.

Are you a ministry leader looking to deepen your leadership skills and amplify your impact within your church or organization? Join us for five weeks of practical learning and engagement with peers in ministry, guided by seasoned leadership coaches. This series is designed specifically for ministry leaders—pastors, elders, lay leaders, and volunteers—providing tools and strategies to help you navigate the unique challenges of ministry leadership with authenticity, grace, and effectiveness.

A $399 value exclusively for the Ministry Forum audience generously subsized by Ministry Forum.

This four-week, interactive, learn-by-doing Peer Ministry Training Webinar will equip participants with the abilities needed to lead young people in learning and expanding their faith with doable, livable and repeatable relational skills. Learning to teach these skills requires relational skill practice. Expect fun interactions and discussions as a group as well as practicing skills with a partner in breakout rooms. You will need the Peer Ministry facilitators manual, which is the core curriculum you will use. But the most important resource is YOU! Your life, your modeling and mentoring relational skills will be the real curriculum. (Youth always know when they are being taught from just a manual.) Relational skills teach youth that faith is lived every day, everywhere and in every relationship! The webinar will be facilitated by Lyle Griner, Director of Peer Ministry Leadership.

Are you a ministry leader looking to deepen your leadership skills and amplify your impact within your church or organization? Join us for five weeks of practical learning and engagement with peers in ministry, guided by seasoned leadership coaches. This series is designed specifically for ministry leaders—pastors, elders, lay leaders, and volunteers—providing tools and strategies to help you navigate the unique challenges of ministry leadership with authenticity, grace, and effectiveness.

A $399 value exclusively for the Ministry Forum audience generously subsized by Ministry Forum.

Are you a ministry leader looking to deepen your leadership skills and amplify your impact within your church or organization? Join us for five weeks of practical learning and engagement with peers in ministry, guided by seasoned leadership coaches. This series is designed specifically for ministry leaders—pastors, elders, lay leaders, and volunteers—providing tools and strategies to help you navigate the unique challenges of ministry leadership with authenticity, grace, and effectiveness.

A $399 value exclusively for the Ministry Forum audience generously subsized by Ministry Forum.

In ministry situations, boundaries clarify who is the congregant and who is the mentor, not in a hierarchical way, but in a manner that prevents the unhealthy merging of individuals. Boundaries create safe spaces and help to build trust over time

You’ll walk away with actionable strategies on how to: 

• Build a culture of trust, inclusion and community

• Weave diversity, equity and inclusion into the DNA of your organization

• Encourage effective open dialogue on sensitive DEI topics 

• Measure the tangible impact of DEI initiatives

• Learn from organizations that model a positive and inclusive culture

Synod of Québec and Eastern Ontario gathering 2024, is coming up October 18-19 at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Arnprior, Ontario. The event will feature guest speaker Carey Nieuwhof, who will lead two sessions on church leadership: Leading Change Without Losing It and 7 Characteristics of the Future Church. In addition to business meetings, attendees will hear from Guy Smagghe, Director of Presbyterian World Service & Development. Open to both synod members and visitors, the gathering will include worship, fellowship, and opportunities for leadership development.

ReVITALize is a conference for ministry leaders and lay people to get together, refresh, learn some new things, be supported, build community, and get inspired. Speakers talk about what is revitalizing them now, and time is given for people to gather with friends and colleagues and meet new folks. People from all denominations and traditions are welcome to attend.

Strengthen your leadership by attending a premier conference experience with world-class leaders streamed LIVE to a local venue near you or from the comfort of your own home!

On Saturday June 1, Ministry Forum from the Centre for Lifelong Learning at Knox College is hosting a day of inspiration and imagining for Canadians who have a passion to follow Jesus and are curious about creative ways of doing and being Christ’s body - The Church - today

Join missions and ministry leaders from across Canada to be equipped in supporting the mental health of your community.

The Festival of Homiletics is like summer camp for preachers

During the Festival, you’ll hear from outstanding preachers from diverse backgrounds, traditions, and ministry settings. You’ll participate in passionate worship, dive deep with preaching master classes, and fellowship with preaching colleagues from around the world.

This year, in-person attendance is capped at 1,200 to maintain rigorous safety protocols—but even if you can’t join us in person, you can still participate!

Choose from a free or premium version of the online Festival—or better yet, come to Minneapolis for a celebration of preaching you won’t forget.

An inspiring in-person and live-streamed event with author, and theologian Brian McLaren.Friday, May 10th, from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. in Guelph.

Engage Difference! Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry (DUIM) is a 5-day interactive and engaging program with practical ideas for implementation in your own context. DUIM is for ministry leaders and community members nurturing cultural relevance, understanding, and awareness in their communities.

It’s tough being a Christian leader in today’s noisy and polarized world. While social media and the news flood those around you with messages of desperation, political division, and scorn toward “the other side,” you are called to guide your congregation through these turbulent waters. So how can you lead them into mutual understanding and clarity? How can we instill and maintain attitudes of hope and empathy powerful enough to mend the rifts in our communities?

The Art of Transitional Ministry Part 1 introduces students to intentional transitional ministry leadership. Once called Interim Ministry, The Art of Transitional Ministry Part 1 introduces students to the Arc of Transitional Ministry-- featuring deeper conversations about entering systems, assessing needs, considering history and current context, considering the role of conflict and healthy departing. We start in a place believing all ministry is transitional and that understanding congregational systems theory undergirds the work we do. Our goal is to provide pastors with tools for leading in the midst of transition while providing a supportive and safe learning community for exploration and questioning.

You can attend the Annual Event in person in St. Louis or in a hybrid format via AE Online. You can also attend in person for one, two, or three days.

About APCE
APCE is an association made up of those who are serving or have served in educational ministries, as ministers, professional or volunteer educators, or students, in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Reformed Church in America, The Presbyterian Church in Canada, the Moravian Church in America, and the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

Dr. Chris Adams of Rosemead School of Psychology shares the four building blocks of well-being: happiness, resilience, self-integrity, and thriving.

This workshop will examine:

What motivates pastors and priests to be engaged in ministry

what disrupts Ministry Leaders from experiencing wellbeing

How flourishing happens when ministry is a life-enriching rather than a life-depleting experience.

Join and connect with other Ministry Leaders who want to live a flourishing life while in ministry.

Come join us for a conversation with Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Former Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada (DD W 2019), as he discusses what it is like to live and minister to Christ’s people in the northern communities of Canada. For twelve years Archbishop Hiltz served as Canada’s senior bishop and travelled extensively, visiting some of the country’s most isolated places. He will speak to us about his current experience as Assisting Bishop of the Diocese of Moosonee, which straddles the James Bay and includes both indigenous and non-indigenous communities in Ontario and Quebec. The story he tells will be both difficult and inspiring.

This is a day for leaders in local congregations to learn more about preaching. You don’t need to be an ordained minister to preach! God speaks through all of us, and this is a day to learn how to study scripture, craft your message, and deliver a sermon. The Rev. Dr. Sarah Travis of Knox College will be teaching this workshop.