Pastoral Leadership

GRACE CHAPEL OF BOISE - 1993 to 2011
Founder/Senior Pastor

Served as founding and senior pastor for 18 years of Grace Chapel, an innovative, multicultural multi- generational Christian church located in Boise, Idaho.

Leadership responsibilities included:

• Maintain a genuine and growing relationship with God
• Provide direction, thrust, & oversight to the total church
• Clarify organizational mission, vision, values, cause
• Strategic thinking, planning, aligning, and executing
• Problem-solving, trouble-shooting, conflict management
• Leadership training, mentoring young leaders
• Establish management systems, processes, policies
• Architect and nurture organizational culture
• Foster an esprit de corps among leadership team
• Mobilize congregation in volunteerism & development
• Financial management, fiduciary oversight, budgets
• Market research, regulatory agency relationships
• Spiritual formation of congregation, leaders, staff
• Spearhead two capital campaigns for two facilities
• Life coaching, counseling, team building
• Public speaking, teaching (designed over 1,000 talks)
• Train new teachers, staff development, program design
• Human resource and personnel management, change
• Educational curriculum design and implementation
• Ongoing written communication, books, manuals,
• Resource other organizations and churches
• Record, produce, distribute three original worship CDs
• Lifelong learner, theology, cultural awareness
• Successful leadership succession planning, transition

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