Covenant Partnerships
The Center for Leadership Development (CLD) is seeking new avenues of partnering with local churches and ministry settings including but not limited to: best practices for adopting a neighborhood school; seeding a National Incubator for training campus ministers with our NTC state-based and faith-based campus ministries in partnership with Perkins School of Theology; and utilizing technology for online training, development, and sharpening skills.
If you have partnership ideas, the CLD would love to hear from you. Please contact Rev. Keith Boone or Rev. Aleze Fulbright.
Current Covenant Partnerships
Christ Foundry
The Centers for Leadership Development, New Church Development and Transformation, and Missional Outreach have entered into a Covenant Partnership with Christ's Foundry. These three centers will provide partial funding for Christ's Foundry to launch a National Incubator for Hispanic Ministries, Church Leadership, and other vital discipleship and outreach ministries in the Bachman area.
For more information about the ministry of Christ Foundry
Training for Excellence
The Center for Leadership Development is excited about the partnership with Training for Excellence as they reach those in the North Texas area that may not have a church affiliation.
The Teen Leadership Purpose and Destiny Conference is one of the ways of developing principled Christian leaders for the church and the world.
For more information about the ministry about Training for Excellence
Lydia Patterson Summer Intern Program
Summer 2011 was the inaugural summer for the Lay Ministry program through the Lydia Patterson Institute (LPI). Interns served churches in the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. The idea was to introduce students of LPI to North Texas and to remind North Texas United Methodists of LPI and its outreach to students on the border of the United States and Mexico in El Paso, Texas.
The objectives of the field experience are achieved by (1) providing each student with real-life experience in the day-to-day ministry experience in a local church, (2) the opportunity to experience personal coaching and mentoring from a practicing local pastor, (3) the opportunity to experience the life of active lay people in their local United Methodist church, and (4) ensuring each student begins to develop the ability and confidence necessary to confirm and affirm their call to ministry in the United Methodist Church.
Lydia Patterson Institute Internship Handbook Summer 2012
For more information about the ministry about the Lydia Patterson Institute
