Disciple Making Leadership Mentoring

Detailed information about the 2012 Forum Mentoring is not yet available but will be posted in the future. Please review the information from the 2011 Forum Mentoring below for a look at the quality of mentoring that will be available at the 2012 Forum.

DISCIPLE-MAKING LEADERSHIP MENTORING

Leadership in much of modern Christianity has been reduced to speaking and managing programmes, while neglecting the importance of making disciples and providing pastoral spiritual leadership.  This oversight has been devastating to the way today’s Christians live.  In order to nurture God's people toward biblical maturity there is a need for Christian leaders to recover the biblical foundation for leadership, spiritual formation, pastoral care and personal discipleship. A leader's role goes beyond knowing and communicating facts about Christianity (as important as these are) to being willing to love, disciple and share lives with the people he or she is leading.  Disciple-Making Leadership Mentoring is designed to help participants consider how to do just this.

Eric Bobbitt is a pastor of Zionsville Fellowship in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.  With an MA in Counseling Psychology and a MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, he directs the pastoral care and counselling ministries, along with providing leadership in men’s discipleship.  His service in a variety of settings includes university ministry, substance abuse residential treatment, public school counselling and pastoral ministry.

Phil Boydell started working in full-time student ministry with the Navigators in 2004.  After 4 years in Edinburgh working with the Navigators  there, Phil and his wife (and 3 girls) moved to Stirling to do similar ministry there.  Their ministry is a partnership between the Navigators and UCCF in discipling and mentoring students there.  In 2008 Phil finished a Masters in Biblical Interpretation from Aberdeen University (ICC Glasgow).  Phil is also involved in co-leading a graduate development program of the UK Navigators called Connect - a 1 or 2 year program seeking to develop future disciple-making leaders for the church and society.

Tony Myrickreceived his B.A. in Biblical Studies from Wheaton College and M.A. in New Testament Studies from Wheaton Graduate School. He has completed two years of Doctoral studies in Paul’s Pastoral Leadership at the University of Aberdeen with Professor I.H. Marshall. He has worked for nearly 20 years in parachurch and local church contexts teaching, developing and maturing Christian leaders using the principles, strategies and tools that will be covered in this workshop. Currently Tony serves as the Minister of Discipleship at Traders Point Christian Church which has 1,800 members and 160 small groups.

Mark Stirling is the leader of the European Disciple-Making Leaders Network.  He is a former medical doctor who has worked in student ministry with the Navigators in Edinburgh. In 2007 he completed an MA in Exegetical Theology at Covenant Seminary in St Louis. He, his wife Jenny and their four children now live in St Andrews, Scotland, where they seek to help students grow to maturity in Christ. Mark is also engaged in PhD studies in Theology and Biblical Studies (Learning Christ in Ephesians) at the University of St Andrews and is involved in helping to lead the work of the Navigators amongst students in the UK.

Bill Wood is a member of the Executive Leadership Team at Perimeter Church and Executive Director of Life on Life Ministries both of which are located in Atlanta, GA.  In these roles he has the opportunity to provide leadership for ministries within the church and also lead a team that is committed to serving churches both domestically and internationally, particularly in the area of life-on-life missional discipleship. Prior to joining Perimeter Church, Bill was an executive in business, working for Fortune 100 companies. His business experience included the formation of new businesses, mergers and acquisitions and running a subsidiary of a Fortune 50 company.   For over twenty years, Bill worked in different facets of the telecommunications industry engaged in financial structuring and capital formation. 

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