National Leadership Formation & Development
Our vision is to see a movement of national leaders who can imitate Christ’s model of authenticity and transparency of the heart. As a result, Christ’s power and His authority are demonstrated through our dependence upon Christ and His body.
Spiritual direction is a crucial discipline for Christian leaders due to the complex and often solitary nature of ministry. It also serves as a clarifying and transformative practice for all believers, guiding them through their spiritual journey and fostering growth in their faith.
A Christian leader needs both leadership formation and leadership development in order to become wholistic servant leaders in God’s Kingdom mission.
Why is Leadership Formation and Development important?
Leadership formation is concerned with addressing the inner life issues that may hinder authentic, intimate relationship with God.
Through the course of our development as humans, created in the image of God, but marred by the Fall, we all experience various events and traumas that wound us in unique ways, leaving us with insecurities, feelings of inadequacy and often a sense of guilt and/or shame, which create barriers to our full experience of God’s immeasurable and unconditional love for us in Christ. Unfortunately, many of these inner life issues remain unacknowledged and unidentified until they begin to surface as a result of the inevitable pressures and stress of leadership, often creating challenges in the life of the leader and in the organizations they lead.
Leadership formation helps leaders identify these issues and proactively deal with them so that they might continue to grow in their experience of, and response to, the love of God. One of the most helpful tools that can enable a Christian leader to process these inner life issues is the discipline of Spiritual Direction.
Spiritual direction is a key discipline for Christian leaders because the dynamics of the ministry world are complicated and, at times, lonely. Spiritual Direction is also a clarifying and transformative discipline for spiritual growth for all believers as we navigate the spiritual journey.
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Leadership Assessment
This free assessment gives you an inventory of how life has shaped you and where God’s healing grace can continue its transformative work.
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Leadership Workshop
This workshop is designed to assist leaders in processing inner life issues that are frequent cause of dysfunction in their personal life, relationships, and leadership.
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SOUL Journey
Experience Biblical and Spirit-led discovery in a cohort community that leads to relational intimacy with Christ and authentic ministry to others.
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Meet Sam
Sam Rima has served in a broad variety of ministry and leadership roles over the past 35 years. Spanning the church, academia, and the non-profit worlds, Sam has experience as a Lead Pastor, Executive Pastor, denominational Executive Minister (overseeing churches and ministries in five states), seminary professor, and non-profit program director.
With a passion for spiritual and leadership formation, Sam has taught and spoken extensively through the U.S. and on five continents. He is the author or co-author of five books and is a certified Spiritual Director. Sam has earned a Doctor of Ministry in Transformational Leadership from Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Buckingham, UK, in Socioeconomics (Spiritual Capital).