Helping Pastors Thrive creates opportunities for enhancing pastoral identity and leadership through peer and mentor-based learning. Funded by the Lilly Endowment, Helping Pastors Thrive is a ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina.
Workshop Retreats for Clergy
Navigating the challenges of pastoral ministry require intentional, ongoing engagement in learning and professional development. The complexity of leading congregations in rapidly changing environments - both within the church and in the larger communities churches seek to serve, demands innovation, creativity, well-honed skills and the ability to integrate the resources of tradition with the emerging needs of the present moment. Yet learning to balance the administrative demands with the arts of ministry- pastoral care, sermon preparation, worship, prayer and requires both content and the embodied wisdom of mentors and peers.
CBFNC’s Helping Pastors Thrive program sponsors a series of workshop retreats that explore emerging issues in ministry and approaches to enhancing pastoral practice. Each workshop focuses on a particular topic and is built around a one or two night retreat to allow for interaction, engagement, fellowship with fellow pastors, worship and prayer.
