Welcome to Faith+Lead’s Academy Catalog

Theological learning on your schedule. Deepen your faith and ministry skills where you are, when you can.

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Getting It Done: Practical Tools for Managing Ministry

Instructor: Terri Elton
This course equips church leaders with essential management tools, from budgeting to team leadership and digital communication.

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Core Topics

Core Topic

Essential Ministry Tasks

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Pivots
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Stewardship & Sustainability

Money and the Mission of the Church

Instructor: Grace Duddy Pomroy
Master the biblical and practical essentials of church money. Equip clergy & leaders to teach stewardship, budgeting, and fundraising for financial sustainability.
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Interpreting Scripture for Preaching

Instructor: Elisabeth Jones
Non-seminary trained and tasked with preaching? Master biblical hermeneutics in this course to faithfully interpret Scripture, build confidence, and enrich your sermons.
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Free

Ministry Leadership

Lutheran Characteristics of Preaching

Instructor: Shauna Hannan
New to the Lutheran tradition? This FREE mini-course guides ministry leaders in identifying and applying the essential characteristics that make preaching explicitly Lutheran. Learn the values behind Lutheran homiletics.
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Ministry Leadership

You’re on the Church Council: Now What?

Instructor: Sara Cutter
Designed specifically for church council members, this course provides a theological and practical foundation for your vital leadership role.
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Ministry Leadership

Special Occasion Preaching

Instructor: Adam P. White
Special occasion preaching made practical—craft sermons of grace and care for weddings, funerals, and more.
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Free

Ministry Leadership

What is the Mixed Ecology?

Instructor: Dwight Zscheile
Learn what we mean when we talk about a “mixed ecology” of church—and how it can renew your approach to ministry and leadership today.

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What to Expect with a Faith+Lead Academy Course

You’ll get a transformative learning experience that combines trustworthy theological teaching with spiritual practices, interactive elements, and a supportive online community.

Know

Expand your theological toolkit with fresh insights for today’s ministry landscape. Connect timeless wisdom with practical frameworks for navigating change.

Deepen your spiritual identity through transformative practices. Move from doing church to being church in ways that nurture authentic discipleship.

Practice skills to lead confidently in your ministry context. Take actionable steps to invite your community into God’s unfolding story.

Every Academy course is designed to

Help your growth in one of these core areas:

connect with god

Develop a Christ-centered identity, grounded in theology, scripture, and spiritual practice, that empowers community members to live as disciples of Jesus Christ in everyday life.

Tell the story of Jesus and invite neighbors into Jesus’ way of life and love through words and actions they can recognize.

community

Listen deeply, name God’s presence in the midst of everyday life, and form life-giving relationships across all dimensions of diversity—both within and beyond the church.

Through mutual relationships with the neighbors among whom you’re hosted, join in acts of compassion, justice, and reconciliation as a witness to the ministry of Jesus—especially in places of suffering and despair.

ministry models

Harness skills of agile leadership, stewardship, fundraising, entrepreneurism, and management to be nimble enough to respond to a changing cultural landscape.

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Meet our Instructors and Contributors

Sara Cutter

Sara Cutter

Senior Director of Operational Effectiveness, ELCA
Guillermo C. Hansen

Guillermo C. Hansen

Director of Advanced Theological Education
The Rev Adam P. White

Adam P. White

Senior Pastor, Faith Lutheran Church, Waconia, Minnesota

Ridgeway Addison

Senior Learning Designer, Humana and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, School of Nursing

Anthony Bateza

Associate Professor of Religion; Department Chair of Race, Ethnic, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Tripp Fuller

Visiting Professor of Theology, Luther Theological Seminary
Angela Gorrell

Angela Williams Gorrell

Author and Speaker, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ryan Panzer

Ryan Panzer

Leadership Developer for Digital Culture