Pastors & Leaders Conference

AMBS Pastors & Leaders is an annual gathering of pastors and those who hold leadership roles in local congregations, chaplaincy contexts, regional churches, denominational settings, not-for-profits and community organizations.

We meet together to connect, worship, learn and be inspired for our ministries. Our gatherings reflect AMBS’s Anabaptist orientation but are open to people from any denomination or no denomination.

Pastors & Leaders 2024: Strategies for Peacemaking

Monday, Feb. 19 – Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024

An origami dove hovers over the conference theme "Strategies for Peacemaking" on a purple background

We live in a time of polarization and division. How do we find our calling as a peace church in the world today?

This year’s conference focused on tools for peacemaking — building our capacity to tend to our inner work; address conflicts within our churches; and lead people to action on big issues such as climate change, immigration and political division.

Speakers

Featured speaker

Betty Pries, PhD, CMed, of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is CEO and Senior Consultant at Credence & Co. in Kitchener, Ontario. Since 1993, she has worked as a mediator, trainer, facilitator and consultant on conflict resolution and conflict management issues for businesses, nonprofit organizations, governments and congregations. Betty has a PhD from the Free University Amsterdam in Conflict Transformation and Spirituality and is a Chartered Mediator with the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Canada. In 2021, she published The Space Between Us: Conversations about Transforming Conflict (Herald). She is a Core Adjunct Faculty member and Doctor of Ministry Faculty of Record at AMBS.

Preachers

Nekeisha Alayna Alexis, MA, serves as AMBS’s Intercultural Competence and Undoing Racism (ICUR) coordinator and external ICUR consultant. She accompanies and collaborates with individuals, communities and organizations as they pursue growth in intercultural competence, antiracism and other anti-oppression efforts. Her deep desire, and gift, is to go beyond stand-alone trainings and to be part of bringing about sustainable changes toward justice. Nekeisha has an MA in Theological Studies from AMBS and brings more than 15 years of experience in helping organizations learn to build intercultural competence and address racial injustice. As an independent scholar, she writes and speaks in the areas of Christian theology and ethics, critical animal studies and related issues.

Isaac Villegas, MDiv, of Durham, North Carolina, is a writer and an ordained minister in Mennonite Church USA. He is a contributing editor and columnist for The Christian Century and a columnist for Anabaptist World. His writing has also appeared in SojournersFaith and Leadership, and Anabaptist Witness. Isaac served as the pastor of Chapel Hill (North Carolina) Mennonite Fellowship for 16 years. He also served as President of the North Carolina Council of Churches and on the boards of Mennonite Church USA, the School for Conversion and Open Table Ministry. He is currently on the Leadership Discernment Committee of Mennonite Church USA. Isaac has a BA from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, and an MDiv from Duke Divinity School in Durham.

Banquet speaker

We’re excited to have Philip Gulley — a Quaker pastor, writer and speaker — joining us to provide entertainment at Wednesday evening’s banquet. Gulley has written 22 books, including the Harmony series recounting life in the eccentric Quaker community of Harmony, Indiana and the best-selling Porch Talk essay series. Many of his characters and recollections are taken from his boyhood in a small Midwestern town. We hope this time of comedic storytelling will bring some good-natured levity to our time together.

Registration

  • The early registration cost is $200 USD for in-person or online when you register by Jan. 19, 2024
  • The registration cost after Jan. 19 is $250 USD
  • The final registration deadline is Feb. 12, 2024

Registration is now closed.

For details on discounts and refunds, see the “Other logistical information” section below.

Schedule

Monday, Feb. 19

8 a.m. – 5:15 p.m. Leadership Clinic: Healthy Boundaries 101
9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Leadership Clinics: Anxiety and Depression in Church Ministry; Cultivating Vital and Faithful Congregations; Leadership for Antiracist Spiritual Formation

7-8:15 p.m. Welcome and Opening Worship – Speaker: Betty Pries, “Nurturing the Interior Condition of the Peacemaker”

Tuesday, Feb. 20 

8:30-9:30 a.m. Workshops, Session A
9:15 a.m. Coffee and snacks
10 a.m. Gathering music
10:15 a.m. Teaching Session – Speaker: Betty Pries, “Navigating Conflict & Change in the Congregation”
11 a.m. Time to journal, reflect and move into Small Groups
11:10 a.m. Small Groups
11:30 a.m. Lunch A 
12:30 p.m. Lunch B
1:30 p.m. Workshops, Session B
2:30 p.m. Break
3 p.m. Worship – Preacher: Nekeisha Alayna Alexis
4 p.m. Free time
6:30 p.m. Showing of Benham West documentary

Wednesday, Feb. 21 

8:30-9:30 a.m. Workshops, Session C
9:15 a.m. Coffee and snacks
10 a.m. Gathering music
10:15 a.m. Teaching Session – Speaker: Betty Pries, “Nurturing Hope in a Polarized World” 
11 a.m. Time to journal, reflect and move into small groups
11:10 a.m. Small Groups
11:30 a.m. Lunch A 
12:30 p.m. Lunch B
1:30 p.m. Workshops, Session D
2:30 p.m. Break
3 p.m. Worship – Preacher: Isaac Villegas
4:15-5:15 p.m. Book signing with speaker Betty Pries and other workshop presenters
6 p.m. Banquet with entertainment by Philip Gulley, followed by book signing

Thursday, Feb. 22

9 a.m. Coffee and snacks
9:45 a.m. Gathering music
10 a.m. Q&A with Betty
10:20 a.m. Panel discussion
11:05 a.m. Small Groups
11:30 a.m. Gather back 
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Closing Worship and Sending 
12:30 p.m. Lunch and linger

Workshops

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Session A, Tuesday 8:30-9:30 a.m.

In-person

A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence: Exploring 8 Approaches to Peacemaking | David Cramer

While peace is at the heart of the gospel message, there is more than one way to understand this message and put this peace into practice. In this session, David Cramer will invite participants to consider eight approaches to peacebuilding and nonviolence from recent Christian exemplars. Drawing from his book A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence, David will present approaches ranging from the nonviolence of Christian discipleship to realist and liberationist nonviolence. He will invite participants to discuss together which approaches might be most helpful in our contemporary contexts and how we, as Christians, might put them into practice in our churches and society.

Accurately Diagnosing and Remedying Small Painful Interpersonal Experiences | Rachel Miller Jacobs

All of us experience small challenging interactions with family members, colleagues, and people in our congregations. These interactions don’t merit mediation or counseling—but many of them don’t just spontaneously resolve on their own. And one of the challenges of experiences of interpersonal pain is that, especially in an environment of polarization and division, it’s both easy and tempting to over-represent what happened and what it means. In this workshop, we will look at a model for thinking about and accurately diagnosing the nature of the pain we’re experiencing in order to be able to remedy it in ways that match its scale and address what’s actually going on.

Anabaptism, Immigration and the Mennonite Churches | Madeline Maldonado & June Alliman Yoder

As American citizens and Mennonites we are challenged with the polarization within our nation. The subject of immigration finds itself square in the middle of these polarizing conversations, not only outside the walls of our places of worship (in our communities) but also within. How does our heritage and faith inform us in how we respond? It is the intention of this workshop to aide each of us in responding in a faithful and Christlike manner.

Faith and Politics in Tension | Mauricio Chenlo

Tensions between faith and politics are natural. Ancient Israel, the church and even the Early Anabaptists experimented with this tension/confrontation between faith and politics. We will explore the different tensions between traditions of the Old Testament as well the new synthesis witnessed by Jesus through servant leadership and the creation of a loving community where tensions and conflict are natural.

MCC and Mass Incarceration: the Pipeline to Prison experience | Juan Pacheco Lozano

Participants will learn about the systemic forces at play that have led to mass incarceration and the criminalization of marginalized groups. The group will hear the experiences from the Pipeline to Prison Learning tour run by MCC Great Lakes. They will hear diverse perspectives from community organizations and people experiencing arrest, incarceration and re-entry. How can our Anabaptist congregations address this issue?

Skills for Navigating Polarized Spaces | Alicia Maldonado-Zahra

Engaging with others who don’t share your values, perspectives and convictions can be challenging. You might want to never see that person in order to avoid conflict, or you might desire a relationship but there’s an unawareness of how to navigate the differences. In this workshop you will be introduced to a few skills and have the opportunity to practice them!

Online

How to Be a Part of Peace in Palestine-Israel: Becoming an Apartheid-Free Congregation | Jonathan Brenneman

Peace is political. It is about building up a world of freedom, justice, equality, and liberation, where all people should be treated with dignity and respect. This is what peace requires in Palestine-Israel where, for decades, the Palestinian people have faced Israeli settler colonialism and occupation enforced through racist and discriminatory legal regimes, forced displacement, blockade and movement restrictions, and systematic human rights abuses. According to legal scholars and the international human rights community, this situation constitutes the crime of Apartheid. It must end.

This workshop will examine Israeli structures of apartheid and how we can join the concerted effort by faith communities in the U.S. to end apartheid. Let’s build an Apartheid-Free world, starting with our own congregations. We need to educate ourselves and others about racist laws and state systems at home and abroad, and we want to ensure that our communities do not contribute to the maintenance of Apartheid regimes. Together, we can work to promote freedom, justice, and equality for all.

Taking Stock: Uncovering One’s Personal Self | Breanna Allen

This workshop is designed to help you reflect on yourself to uncover your leadership philosophy, what skills are in your inventory to lead, what skills might be missing from your inventory, and who is on your support mountain along the way.

Session B, Tuesday 1:30-2:30 p.m.

In-person

Inner Transformation is Possible! Immanuel Prayer is One Way to Experience It | Charlotte Lehman

Leaders with healthy humility and self-awareness understand that their own points of pain can cause them to react to people and situations in ways they later regret – in ways that do not advance their goals of being peacemakers. Yet, it is often not clear what they can do about the problem!

This workshop will cast a vision for cooperating with the way God designed our relational brains to work to experience deep inner transformation. It will give stories to illustrate that journey, and research to help folks identify the most effective healing paths for them. The workshop will also describe Immanuel Prayer, a particular approach to doing one’s inner work. Immanuel Prayer is certainly not the only way to effectively do this kind of work! But it is an accessible and Christ-centered way which can be pursued at various levels. There is not sufficient time in a one-hour workshop to teach attendees how to do Immanuel Prayer, but resources for those who want to pursue it further will be provided.

Notes from the Field: ICUR Working in the Church and Beyond | Nekeisha Alayna Alexis

How does change toward justice occur? What are the questions that need to be asked? The strategies that need to be used? The foundations that need to be laid? Is such change even possible?

In 2019, Nekeisha Alayna Alexis began shifting her role as Intercultural Competence and Undoing Racism coordinator at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary — a position focused solely on the cultural dynamics and internal operations of our learning community — to external consulting. Since that time, she has worked with more than 30 entities, including congregations, faith-based and non-faith-based nonprofits, individuals and grassroots organizations of various sizes and callings. Through these often long-term relationships, she has seen good things happen! As a result, she has also developed insights about the ingredients needed to build the things that make for peace in our communities.

In this workshop, Nekeisha will draw on her experiences of collaborative accompaniment for institutional and relational transformation to help those seeking to resist oppression in their contexts. Her reflections will cover both ways of thinking and practical steps that can be done. Her goal is to inspire new energy and renewed hope among those who may be feeling stuck and confused about how to move forward. She hopes you will join her no matter where you are in your process.

Peace Theology and Violence against Women: A “New” Wave of Peacemaking | Panel Discussion

In 1992, the Institute of Mennonite Studies published the book Peace Theology and Violence against Women, edited by Elizabeth G. Yoder. That same year, AMBS initiated a disciplinary process against one of the world’s leading voices for peace theology for his acts of violence against women. In this panel, we revisit this landmark book by interviewing authors who contributed to the book about how the book provided a new wave of strategies for peacemaking, specifically regarding violence against women, that we can still learn from today in an era of #MeToo and #ChurchToo.

Taking Stock: Uncovering One’s Personal Self | Breanna Allen

This workshop is designed to help you reflect on yourself to uncover your leadership philosophy, what skills are in your inventory to lead, what skills might be missing from your inventory, and who is on your support mountain along the way.

Working with Scraps: Ideas for Ministry in Polarized Contexts | Joe Liechty & Joe Sawatzky

The deeper the polarization, the more likely it is that peacemakers will find no direct path to peace, no comprehensive plan. We need to learn how to work with scraps of possibility. The presenters will draw on scripture and on their combined experience of more than three decades working for Mennonite Mission Network in South Africa and Northern Ireland as well as work on polarization in the U.S.

Online

“I can clobber you with my Bible” | Nelson Kraybill

The Bible contains contrasting perspectives on topics as diverse as faith community boundaries, attitudes toward sexual minorities, and the role of God’s people in government. When in conflict we may be tempted to theologically bludgeon each other with favorite Bible texts. Can we take the Bible seriously while also acknowledging tensions within scripture, allowing for multiple faithful responses? Congregational and denominational leaders can help the church rise above mere proof texting to see the liberating trajectory of scripture as a whole. This seminar will draw from the presenter’s book, Stuck Together: The Hope of Christian Witness in a Polarized World (Herald Press, 2023).

Nurture the Peace Within: Coaching for Ministry Leaders | Shana Boshart

Meeting with a coach can help you access the clarity and courage you need to be a calm “non-anxious presence.” Come and learn some basic coaching techniques and how being coached can help you embody peace.

Session C, Wednesday 8:30-9:30 a.m.

In-person

Anabaptism, Immigration and the Mennonite Churches | Madeline Maldonado & June Alliman Yoder

As American citizens and Mennonites we are challenged with the polarization within our nation. The subject of immigration finds itself square in the middle of these polarizing conversations, not only outside the walls of our places of worship (in our communities) but also within. How does our heritage and faith inform us in how we respond? It is the intention of this workshop to aide each of us in responding in a faithful and Christlike manner.

Gardening as Spiritual Practice | Jolene Miller

People garden for many reasons, with many documented benefits. Have you ever considered how gardening (or farming) can be deeply spiritual? Given that the creation accounts in Genesis place the first humans in a garden, it doesn’t stretch the imagination to see gardening as holding the potential to profoundly impact our faith journey. Come join in a discussion about the many known spiritual practices that are accentuated and elevated when experienced in the garden, and maybe learn about a few new ones that might be unique to tending the plants outside your back door.

Inner Transformation is Possible! Immanuel Prayer is One Way to Experience It | Charlotte Lehman

Leaders with healthy humility and self-awareness understand that their own points of pain can cause them to react to people and situations in ways they later regret – in ways that do not advance their goals of being peacemakers. Yet, it is often not clear what they can do about the problem!

This workshop will cast a vision for cooperating with the way God designed our relational brains to work to experience deep inner transformation. It will give stories to illustrate that journey, and research to help folks identify the most effective healing paths for them. The workshop will also describe Immanuel Prayer, a particular approach to doing one’s inner work. Immanuel Prayer is certainly not the only way to effectively do this kind of work! But it is an accessible and Christ-centered way which can be pursued at various levels. There is not sufficient time in a one-hour workshop to teach attendees how to do Immanuel Prayer, but resources for those who want to pursue it further will be provided.

Practical Leadership Challenges | Luis Tapia Rubio

This workshop will provide the opportunity to learn about AMBS’s Practical Leadership Training program, offering a safe space for people to share about their ministry and peace work experiences as well. We will identify leaders’ common challenges and gather a list of useful practical skills and strategies to address them.

Scribes for the Reign of God: Leadership in Anabaptist Contexts | Panel Discussion

Scribes for the Reign of God (“Scribes”) is an annual collaborative research process hosted by the Institute of Mennonite Studies (IMS). This year our theme is “Leadership in Anabaptist Contexts.” Join us as we share from our research about leadership in Anabaptist contexts from a variety of perspectives.

Our Scribes collaborators include David Boshart, PhD, President of AMBS; David C. Cramer, PhD, Managing Editor of IMS and teaching pastor at Keller Park Church in South Bend, Indiana; Rachel Miller Jacobs, DMin, Associate Professor of Congregational Formation; James Krabill, PhD, Visiting Professor of Church and Mission; Jewel Gingerich Longenecker, PhD, Dean of Lifelong Learning and DMin Program Director; Henok Mekonin, MA, Global Leadership Collaborative specialist; Allan Rudy-Froese, PhD, Associate Professor of Christian Proclamation; Rebecca Slough, PhD, Academic Dean Emerita and Professor Emerita of Worship and the Arts; and Leah Thomas, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care.

Online

How to Be a Part of Peace in Palestine-Israel: Becoming an Apartheid-Free Congregation | Jonathan Brenneman

Peace is political. It is about building up a world of freedom, justice, equality, and liberation, where all people should be treated with dignity and respect. This is what peace requires in Palestine-Israel where, for decades, the Palestinian people have faced Israeli settler colonialism and occupation enforced through racist and discriminatory legal regimes, forced displacement, blockade and movement restrictions, and systematic human rights abuses. According to legal scholars and the international human rights community, this situation constitutes the crime of Apartheid. It must end.

This workshop will examine Israeli structures of apartheid and how we can join the concerted effort by faith communities in the U.S. to end apartheid. Let’s build an Apartheid-Free world, starting with our own congregations. We need to educate ourselves and others about racist laws and state systems at home and abroad, and we want to ensure that our communities do not contribute to the maintenance of Apartheid regimes. Together, we can work to promote freedom, justice, and equality for all.

Nonviolent Communication as a Spiritual Practice | Malinda Berry

This workshop will introduce participants to a spiritual practice of giving and receiving empathy using a framework called nonviolent or compassionate communication. While this practice is not unique to Christianity, it helps Christians work toward experiencing a profound sense of fellowship (koinonia) and unity in the Church. The workshop presenter, Malinda Elizabeth Berry, who has her own seven-plus years of practice, will teach participants the basics of being an “empathy buddy.” To conclude, she will share some tips and encouragements for creating a community of practice in small groups, congregations, organizations, and extended families.

Session D, Wednesday 1:30-2:30 p.m.

In-person

Climate Collaborative – Climate Action for Peace in a Global Context | Panel Discussion

How is climate change affecting local communities around the world? What are MCC Cambodia and MCC Zimbabwe doing to respond to changing weather conditions and build peace in the process? Come hear from Victor Odinda and Caroline Pugeni about strategies they use to ensure that food, water, and clean energy are accessible for all in Cambodia and Zimbabwe respectively. What role might the Church in the U.S. have to play in supporting them?

The Differences Between Guilt-based and Shame-based Cultures and Why They Matter | Janeen Bertsche Johnson & Sibonokuhle Ncube

The majority of the world operates out of shame-based cultures, which is very different than the worldview of most North Americans. Understanding the basic differences between shame-based and guilt-based cultures can help us in relating to people across cultures and resolving conflicts that are due to cultural divides. Sibonokuhle Ncube and Janeen Bertsche Johnson shared a home for three and a half years, and lived some of these cross-cultural realities. Join them to examine some key distinctions between guilt-based and shame-based worldviews, and apply them to case studies and your own experiences.

Longing for the Body: Immigrant Centered Movements and Postures of Re-membering | Janna Hunter-Bowman

In the fall of 2016, a Latina woman posed a question to the pastors and leaders who were gathered at AMBS to organize a new sanctuary movement: “what if what we need and want is not to go into your sanctuary but for you to join us in the streets? Will you do that?”

This presentation explores what it means to accept the invitation extended by an immigrant led social movement. Perhaps it means to participate in becoming a body. This would be a matter of re-membering what has been dis-membered, pulled apart, separated, divided, detached, replaced, humiliated, racially targeted, economically exploited, pressed into “golden cages” of illusion and isolation, and otherwise put to death. Histories of colonization, imperialism, and economic violence are ongoing processes of dismemberment. This rereading of the Passion focuses on the betrayed Jesus saying, “This is my body, broken. Do this, re-member me.” It draws on Latin American traditions of reading the suffering of the people alongside the suffering of Christ to offer a new model for church ministries towards immigrants that contributes to peacebuilding.

Matthew 18 and the Keys to the Kingdom of Peace | Isaac Villegas

In Matthew 18, Jesus offers guidance to his disciples about how to engage with each other in a holy struggle against the communal harms of sin. This passage has been fundamental for Anabaptists/Mennonites since the beginning of our movement in sixteenth-century Europe. This workshop will explore the promise and perils of the process that Jesus outlined for us in our ongoing efforts to sustain healthy communities of peace.

Nonviolent Communication as a Spiritual Practice | Malinda Berry

This workshop will introduce participants to a spiritual practice of giving and receiving empathy using a framework called nonviolent or compassionate communication. While this practice is not unique to Christianity, it helps Christians work toward experiencing a profound sense of fellowship (koinonia) and unity in the Church. The workshop presenter, Malinda Elizabeth Berry, who has her own seven-plus years of practice, will teach participants the basics of being an “empathy buddy.” To conclude, she will share some tips and encouragements for creating a community of practice in small groups, congregations, organizations, and extended families.

Shalom Revisited | Jackie Wyse-Rhodes

It’s been 35 years since Perry Yoder first published Shalom: The Bible’s Word for Salvation, Justice, and Peace. This book has informed the practice of peace-centered biblical interpretation for more than a generation, and it continues to be influential in classrooms and congregations today. In this workshop, Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, a current AMBS faculty member who studied with Yoder, will reflect on how this significant book has advanced conversations between biblical studies and peace theology. The workshop will include ample time for discussion about how the book’s core ideas continue to speak in our 21st-century context.

Online

A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence: Exploring 8 Approaches to Peacemaking | David Cramer

While peace is at the heart of the gospel message, there is more than one way to understand this message and put this peace into practice. In this session, David Cramer will invite participants to consider eight approaches to peacebuilding and nonviolence from recent Christian exemplars. Drawing from his book A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence, David will present approaches ranging from the nonviolence of Christian discipleship to realist and liberationist nonviolence. He will invite participants to discuss together which approaches might be most helpful in our contemporary contexts and how we, as Christians, might put them into practice in our churches and society.

Encountering Jesus, Joining Jubilee: Following Zacchaeus’ Footsteps | Isaiah Friessen

In recent years, the language of reparations has launched into public view for society as a whole, especially in the U.S. Many Christian communities are beginning to wrestle with what it means, theologically and practically, to see reparations as part of an Anabaptist peace witness. This workshop will include reflection together on Zacchaeus (Luke 19) as an inspiration for reparative action. We will also reflect practically on how our congregations are responding (or not) to broader social conversations about reparations and the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the challenges and opportunities for peacemaking that arise along the way.

Leadership Clinics

Leadership Clinics will took place on Monday, Feb. 19 before the start of Pastors & Leaders.

  • Anxiety and Depression in Church Ministry | Deborah Byler
  • Cultivating Vital and Faithful Congregations | David Boshart
  • Healthy Boundaries 101 | Ed Kauffman
  • Leadership for Antiracist Spiritual Formation | Regina Shands Stoltzfus

Other logistical information

Registration fees and discounts

In-person registration is limited to the first 200 paid registrants.

Register before Jan. 19, 2024 to save $50! (But if you miss that, you can still register until Feb. 12)

  • Individual: $200 (in-person or virtual)
  • Married couple: $315 (in-person)
  • AMBS student: $10

Registration after Jan. 19:

Registration closes on Feb. 12, 2024.

  • Individual: $250 (in-person or virtual)
  • Married couple: $395 (in-person)
  • AMBS student: $10

Discounts – Save money!

  • First-time attender’s discount: If this is your first time attending an AMBS Pastors & Leaders conference, not including times you may have attended as an AMBS student, you are eligible for a 25% registration discount. (Not applicable with other discounts.)
  • Shoulder-tapping discount: Bring a friend who has never attended an AMBS Pastors & Leaders  conference and receive a 25% registration discount. (Not applicable with other discounts.)
  • Scholarships: Financial assistance is limited to registration costs. If you need financial assistance, please include with your registration form a paragraph explaining your need. Meals, housing and transportation are the responsibility of the registrant. Deadline: Jan. 19, 2024.

Meals (non-refundable)

  • Lunch: $10 (Monday–Thursday)
  • Monday evening supper: $10
  • Wednesday banquet: $20
  • Meal registration closes on Feb. 2, 2024.

Transportation

Transportation requests must be made by Jan. 19, 2024.

  • South Bend Airport (to or from AMBS): $50
  • Elkhart Amtrak (to or from AMBS): $17

Lodging

AMBS Guest Houses

Lodging at the AMBS guest houses is now full. You can find lodging at the local hotels listed below.

Local Hotels 

Refunds

Registration fees will be refunded, less $25, for cancellations prior to Jan. 19, 2024. After this date, cancellations will be granted credit, less $25, toward Pastors & Leaders 2025 registration fees. Refund credits should be requested within 24 hours of the event. Cancellation after Jan. 19 due to emergencies will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.

Meals are non-refundable.  

Before Jan. 19, campus lodging is refundable, less $25. After Jan. 19, campus lodging is non-refundable. Cancellations after Jan. 19, due to emergencies will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Before Jan. 19, transportation is refundable, less $25. After Jan. 19, transportation is non-refundable. Cancellations after Jan. 19 due to emergencies will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.

Continuing Education Units

Attending all Pastors & Leaders plenary and workshop sessions earns 1.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Indicate if you would like to receive CEUs when you register, and pick up your CEU certificate when leaving the final session Thursday afternoon.


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Past Pastors & Leaders conferences

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