Leadership

The Leadership Vision

Mission

We equip and inspire leaders who act with urgency for the gospel of Jesus Christ and learn to strategically build congregational communities within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Vision

We won’t stop until every leader values their worth and is living out its impact.

Values

Everyone can be a leader with influence.
All have a voice at the table.
Christians of the cross exist for others.

“Religious institutions lack any clear strategy or roadmap for renegotiating

this new cultural terrain.

These voices express not only loss but also being at a loss—

the very kind of thing we would expect to hear from leaders

whose institutions are suffering obsolescence.”

Sociologist Christian Smith (2025)

Upcoming 2027 Offerings

Student Leadership Workshop

Coming August 2027

For rising 8th – 12th graders

from Metro Chicago-area congregations

Strategic Leadership Workshop

Coming May 2027

For congregations interested in growing in their potential to make greater impact in the world. Invited are congregational council members, staffs, ministry leaders, rostered leaders (including ministers of word and sacrament, ministers of word and service, synod-authorized ministers, vicars/interns)