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.
From its founding, CBF of North Carolina has recognized the importance of leadership development as a key to healthy, growing congregations.
Helping Pastors Thrive builds on and significantly expands CBFNC’s support for pastoral leaders by concentrating on the specific contexts and identified needs at three distinct vocational stages: (1) new pastors in their first years of congregational ministry; (2) pastors navigating the complex challenges of pastoral ministry in older, established churches; and, (3) experienced pastors who desire dedicated time away from their ministries to reflect on the meaning of their vocation, to prepare for their final years of pastoral service, and to share what they have learned with younger pastors.
“fostering higher levels of well-being will help pastors be healthier, more creative and innovative, higher performing, more adaptable and resilient church leaders.”