2 Minute Read By, Tom Rees, Director of Church Planting When we become a leader, we imagine leadership to be like skiing through beautiful slopes of newly fallen snow. Some of us have found the reality to be quite different. The leadership slopes have been more challenging...
2 Minute Read By Kurt Jenkins Road trips can be very exciting, but getting lost while on your way can be very frustrating. Even when you are headed in the correct direction, getting into the right lane at the right time can be a challenge. This example is...
1 minute read By Jeff Marshall, Secretary-Treasurer We are celebrating the first graduating class of the PennDel School of Ministry! This is a great milestone in the history of PDSOM. Five students have completed all three levels of classes. Congratulations to Jason Jodon, David Kepple, Marianne Kuchta, Jared Newhart,...
2 minute Read By Pastor Joe Terreri I had the opportunity to bring our pastoral staff to the Thrive Conference this fall. We were all challenged, encouraged and inspired by our time with our PennDel Ministry Network family and Dr. Carolyn Tennant. Here are four takeaways from our...
2 minute read Adapted from Dr. Carolyn Tennant and Dr. Joseph Girdler’s book, Keys to the Apostolic and Prophetic: Embracing the Authentic - Avoiding the Bizarre, (Louisville, KY: Meadow Stream Publishing, 2019), 154–155. Each new year is a time for personal evaluation. As leaders working in a five-fold...
2 minute read By Bryan Koch, Assistant Superintendent As pastors and leaders of churches, God has called each of us into the ministry. But the direction that calling takes is different for each individual based on the giftings that He has given you. There are the manifestational...
2 minute read By Pastor Donald J. Immel, Superintendent No matter how inconvenient accumulating snow fall is, I still love it! There is hardly anything like waking up to freshly fallen snow that blankets yards, sidewalks and streets before anyone has a chance to put tracks in them. It...
2 minute read by Bryan Koch, Assistant Superintendent To thrive means to prosper, be fortunate or successful. It can also mean to grow or develop vigorously or to flourish. As ministry leaders, we all want our ministries to thrive. We also want the people who we lead...
[2 minute read] by Secretary-Treasurer & World Missions Director, Jeff Marshall The definition of the word ‘thrive’ according to Webster’s 1828 Dictionary is “To grow; to advance; to increase or advance in anything valuable.” The Bible tells us in Philippians 3:12 “Not that I have already obtained all...
[3 minute read] by Guest Contributor, Dr. Carolyn Tennant We must first put down what we know before we can pick up what we haven’t yet tried. If we would all embrace the concept of letting go and taking a step back, we would be much better off....