About

This blog is about cultivating leadership so the church may exist for the sake of the world. 

You are invited to explore together cultivating capacities in the areas of:

• Leading in a complex time
• Understanding generational and cultural differences
• Equipping and managing staff/volunteers
• Developing a conflict competent church
• Discerning God’s movement in your midst
• Spiritually forming the sent people of God
• Connecting  your church with your context

The blog runs in cycles based on highlighted books.  For the Fall of 2008 I’m doing Heifetz and Linsky’s Leadership on the Line, written by two Harvard professors in the John F. Kennedy School of Government.   In the future, other books will be highlighted.  For busy leaders, the blog not only covers these relevant topics but also exposes you to the best reading available on these topics. 

About the author, Stephanie Lutz Allen: 

I am a church consultant who combines theological and social science training. I am a Presbyterian Clergy in the PCUSA, with fourteen years of ministry experience.  Upon finishing a mid-career educational odyssey in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, I developed a consulting practice in the Fall of 2007. 

Read More:

www.cultivatemission.org

Contact Info:

stephanie@cultivatemission.org

 

What’s with the Beach Art

Some of the photos in the rotating album are taken on the beach at my alma mater, UC Santa Barbara.  For twenty years I’ve sojourned back to this place of academic and spiritual growth.  One picture in particular features this graffiti-like beach art.  I’ve always been in awe of this seemingly spontaneous art illicitly created on a concrete block, which has remained all these years.   The artist created a face focused on the eyes, the widows of the soul.  What those eyes have seen all these years—looking out at the beauty of the beach, countless sunsets, and the wild studentia parties of Isla Vista!   I’ve marveled at the way the artist took a human-made corruption of the beach (this concrete block) and turned it into a fascinating monument to human creativity.