Pinnacle Presentations

The Great ReEvaluation

(Re)Cententering Church In The Way of Jesus

We sense it. We feel it. We Observe it.

Major change in post-pandemic church life is underway. Everything around us is changing and the Great Re-Evaluation is underway.

What do we need to understand about the current situation in order to lead the church today? Are there pivots, large or small, that we can take to position churches to respond faithfully? What might we discover about how God is reshaping churches into greater expressions of the body of Christ?

Over the last year, Pinnacle founder and team leader Mark Tidsworth has developed TGR content while engaging church leaders, refining and strengthening through the interaction. TGR is currently available, or will be available, in the following forms.

TGR Presentation - Available as Keynote, Workshop, or learning event

TGR One Day Learning Experience For Church Leaders - We are scheduling this event in various places: with a single church, with a church hosting this event for others in its area, in clergy gatherings and denominational learning events. Mark Tidsworth provides the presentation, including small and large group discussion. Participants receive their copy of the Integration Guide, providing the presentation content plus additional content and activities to integrate the learning and guide their churches.

Anticipated Outcome of this Learning Experience = Leaders are positioned to guide their churches toward maximizing the growth opportunities inherent in these moments during TGR

Topics in this learning experience:

  • Describing The Current Situation – Includes anecdotes from the field, trends from church research, and a deeper dive into understanding TGR

  • The Spiritual Posture Required For Proactively Engaging TGR

  • What Churches Must Refuse To Do in These Moments

  • What Churches Must Pursue in These Moments

  • What We Need From Church Leadership To Thrive

  • Five Key Moves for Church Leadership During TGR

  • Plotting Goodness in TGR

TGR Course - We are currently engaging one denomination and its leadership in TGR Course, in-person introduction followed by 6 online sessions. Various formats available.

TGR Implementation Guide - This resource supports the learning in the Course, providing guidance for leading one’s church toward maximizing the change opportunities.

If you would like to explore scheduling Mark or a Pinnacle Associates for a presentation or learning experience around The Great ReEvaluation you can reach Mark here.



 

Coach Approach to Supervision: Training for Church Staffs

A Summit Coach Training from Pinnacle Workshop

8 hours, offered in segments of 2, 4, or 8 hours via Zoom

Instructor, Laura Stephens-Reed, PCC, CMC

Most ministry leaders enter church work expecting to do the frontline work of preaching, teaching, directing programs, and providing pastoral care, with a side of meetings. But once they are in their contexts, they realize that they have significant responsibilities for other full-time or part-time staff. Not all seminaries prepare ministers-in-training to perform those responsibilities well, and there are few supervisory resources available to pastors who want to build a collaborative staff culture. This training can equip ministry leaders for the hard, holy work of supervising staff. Participants will:

  • Learn the basics of coaching and their usefulness in supervision as well as the limits of coaching in supervision

  • Discover their supervision style and construct their own coach approach to supervision

  • Consider how to shape a culture of supervision that is rooted in coaching skills

This training is geared toward church staffs that have multiple people in supervisory roles.

Note that this class is open to those seeking ICF credit toward a credential or credential renewal and for ministry leaders who are not and do not plan to become credentialed coaches.

About the Facilitator

Rev. Laura Stephens-Reed attempts to be faithful to this call primarily through coaching clergy and congregations across the ecumenical spectrum. She has been credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation and as a Certified Mentor Coach. An ordained minister since 2002, she has served congregations in a variety of settled and interim roles, including pastor, associate pastor, and minister with age-specific groups. She is affiliated with the Alliance of Baptists and holds Ministerial Standing in the Alabama-Northwest Florida Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and she is a member and contract employee of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. In addition, Laura has been on staff and consulted with congregations in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the United Methodist Church and has coached pastors in seventeen denominations. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee and her Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology at Emory University. She is currently enrolled in the Doctor of Ministry program at Lexington Theological Seminary.

Laura lives in Northport, Alabama, with her husband Matt, a United Methodist pastor, and their son. She loves going to the playground, reading, watching tv and movies, and cheering on SEC football teams.