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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Discerning: Exploring God’s Call to Ministry

Instructor: Terri Elton
This Christian leadership training will help you discern the vocation God has placed on your life—and respond with courage and faith.

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Core Topics

Core Topic

Essential Ministry Tasks

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Pivots

Ministry Leadership

A Lay Leader’s Guide to Planning Worship Experiences

Instructor: Darcy Mittelstaedt
This course provides lay leaders with practical, spiritually-informed tools and processes for planning communal worship experiences.
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Justice & Service

A More Excellent Way: The Gospel in an Age of Division

Instructor: Joy Moore
Foster an inclusive community with practical strategies for engaging issues like race, justice, and polarization with grace and scriptural wisdom.
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Stewardship & Sustainability

Beyond the Tithe: Faith and Money Practices

Instructor: Grace Duddy Pomroy
Explore money and the Bible through a Spirit-led course that nurtures faith-rooted financial practices and intentional stewardship.
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Ministry Leadership

Boundaries for Christian Leaders

Instructor: Leah Challberg
An affordable, on-demand training for clergy and ministry volunteers covering financial, sexual, personal, interpersonal, youth ministry, and digital boundaries.

Mission & Evangelism

Christian Witness in Smaller Membership Congregations

Instructor: Jon Anderson
This on-demand course explores practical, natural methods for sharing your faith, tailored to the context of smaller membership congregations.
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Bible

Crash Course: Bible

Instructor: Kathryn Schifferdecker
Deepen your understanding of the Bible by exploring its origins, context, and more, gaining trustworthy methods for reading and interpreting the text.

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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

The Rev Adam P. White

Adam P. White

Senior Pastor, Faith Lutheran Church, Waconia, Minnesota
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Alicia Granholm

Senior Director, Faith+Lead, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Dr. Amy Buechler-Steubing

Amy Buechler-Steubing

Administrator at The University of Texas at San Antonio

Andrew Root

Professor and Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MInnesota
Angela Gorrell

Angela Williams Gorrell

Author and Speaker, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Anthony Bateza

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

Catherine Wright

Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Bethel University
Pastor Chris Steubing

Chris Steubing

Pastor, St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Canyon Lake, Texas