2021-2022
Module Curriculum & Devotionals
Curriculum and Devotions developed by
Rev. Dr. Mark Mattes, Rev. Dr. Ken Jones and Dr. Trisha Wheelock
Rev. Dr. Yolanda Pierce
August 2021
Module: Rediscovering Your Call through Storytelling
Resource Recommendation: In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith and the Stories We Inherit by Yolanda Pierce
Module Devotion
Dr. Tod Bolsinger
September 2021
Module: Seminary Didn't Prepare Me for This: Leadership and Adaptation
Rescource Recommendation: Canoeing the Mountains by Tod Bolsinger
Rev. Dr. Leah Schade
October 2021
Module: Controversial Topics and the Pulpit
Resource Recommendation: Preaching in the Purple Zone: Ministry in the Red-Blue Divide by Leah D. Schade
Other Resources: Discovering our Theologies of Conflict
Dr. Angela Gorrell
November 2021
Module: The Importance of Joy
Resources Recommendation: The Gravity of Joy by Angela Gorrell
Reverends Sheryl Kester Beyer, Chris Kester Beyer and Nancy Nyland
December 2021
Kent Schornack,
Director of Leadership & Counseling
Grand View University
January 2022
Rev. Dr. Russell Lackey
February 2022
Module: Virtuous Cycles, Strategy, and Mission
Resource Recommendation: "Creating Virtuous Cycles" by Dave L. Odom and "How to Turn a Viscous Cycle in Ministry into a Virtuous One" by Russell L. Lackey
Reverends Nicole & Grant Woodley
March 2022
Module: Think Like a Farmer: Traditioned Innovation
Resource Recommendation: Bet the Farm by Beth Hoffman
Rev. Sarah Ciavarri M.Div. PCC, CDWF-C, CDTLF
April 2022
Module: Beyond the Jordan
Resource Recommendation: Finding Our Way to the Truth: Seven Lies Leaders Believe and How to Let Go of Them by Sarah Ciavarri