Lead Pastor Learning Community: Free Preview Event
Join Mark Tidsworth for a free 45-minute online preview of Pinnacle’s new Lead Pastor Learning Community, launching February 2027. It’s an ongoing community where lead pastors learn and explore together to cultivate vitality in their churches and in their own lives.
Details at a glance:
Format: Online (Zoom)
Length: 45 minutes
Cost: Free
Led by: Mark Tidsworth, Pinnacle Founder & Team Leader
Vitality Is Rising
Since the pandemic ended, we’ve seen growing vitality in more and more churches across our circles and networks. Many of the lead pastors serving those churches are feeling renewed too, which is a real change from what so many went through during the pandemic. At Pinnacle, we’re curious about what’s happening in these congregations and their pastors, and we feel called to explore it.
That calling led us to create the Lead Pastor Learning Community. We’ve led clergy cohorts for more than 20 years, and this is something different: an ongoing community of lead pastors who learn and explore together, growing vitality in their churches and in their vocational and personal lives.
Come See What It’s About
In this free 45-minute preview, Mark Tidsworth will walk you through the vision behind the community and how it works, and he’ll answer your questions. You’ll hear about the three driving questions at its heart:
What contributes to vitality in moderate and progressive churches?
What is the lead pastor’s role in cultivating that vitality?
What contributes to vitality in the lead pastors of moderate to progressive churches?
What Participation Looks Like
The community is a year-round learning experience built around a different theme each month. It includes:
Monthly Community Gatherings (online, 90 minutes, second Thursdays, 2:00–3:30pm EST). This is a learning lab with presentations, practitioner interviews, dialogue, and more.
Monthly Integration Groups (online, 90 minutes, various times). These are facilitated small groups led by experienced pastors who serve as conveners, and they help you apply what you’re learning in your own ministry context.
Weekly Thematic Discussions and an Online Community Platform where you can share resources and build relationships between gatherings.
Potential topics include developing the lead pastor mindset, leading staff teams, conflict prevention and resolution, addressing human sexuality without blowing apart, practicing differentiated leadership, and emerging uses for AI.
Who Should Attend
This preview is for lead pastors, senior pastors, heads of staff, rectors, and anyone who oversees a church’s overall ministry, especially in moderate to progressive congregations, as well as anyone curious about joining a peer community of practitioners.
Good to Know
The Lead Pastor Learning Community launches in February 2027. The registration deadline for the first cohort is January 31, 2027. Annual tuition is $950, and a payment plan and scholarship possibilities are available.
Questions? Contact Mark Tidsworth at markt@pinnlead.com or 803.673.3634. Register for the Preview Event below.