Growing Women in Ministry: Seven Aspects of Leadership Development

by Anna R. Morgan, Lisa Larsen (Read by)

Overview

While many aspects of leadership development are similar for women and men, women face different cultural expectations and have different experiences than their male counterparts. Anna Morgan's own experiences in pastoral ministry leadership launched her search for a holistic way to grow the skills, influence, and authority of women who are gifted and called as leaders.

This book provides a positive, comprehensive, research-based model for developing women in church and ministry leadership. Morgan identifies seven aspects of leadership development that form a woman over her lifetime. Three work inwardly as a woman grows in leadership: spiritual calling, giftedness, and emotional intelligence. Four work externally to shape her authority and influence: home life supports, ministry leadership contexts, leadership relationships, and communication.

Growing Women in Ministry is written in a clear, accessible style for both female ministry leaders and men seeking to promote female leaders. It includes policy suggestions, strategies, values for ideal growing conditions, and discussion questions, making it an ideal resource for ministry, practical theology, and leadership courses, church and parachurch leaders, and pastors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798874827328
Publisher:	christianaudio
Publication date:	08/27/2024
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Anna R. Morgan is vice president of academics at Ascent College and copastor with her husband, John, of Word of Life, an Assemblies of God church in the metro Washington DC area. She is also affiliate associate professor of leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary, where she teaches students researching issues of power, race, and gender. Morgan has been in local church ministry since 1999, having served as a youth pastor, worship pastor, executive pastor, lead pastor, and church consultant. She has published articles in Christianity Today and Propel Women.

After earning a degree in musical theater and spending several years hustling on the business side of the film industry, Lisa Larsen has found her way back to her first love: performing. Lisa narrates from her home studio in the foothills of Los Angeles. When she's not embodying the characters of strong heroines, feisty teenagers, cranky old men, or alluring vampires, she's devoting time to her daughters, mucking up her kitchen baking healthy treats, riding her bike, or enjoying a DIY project with her husband.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Leadership Development for Women in Ministry
2. A Model of Female Leadership Development
3. God Calling and Forming Female Leaders Spiritually: Aspect 1
4. Female Leaders Forming Leadership Cognition: Aspect 2
5. Female Leaders Forming Emotional Intelligence: Aspect 3
6. Female Leadership Formed by Home Life: Aspect 4
7. Female Leaders Formed by Ministry Environment: Aspect 5
8. Female Leaders Forming Influence through Leadership Relationships: Aspect 6 Part 1
9. Male-Female Ministry Partnerships: Aspect 6 Part 2
10. Female Leaders Forming Influence through Communication: Aspect 7
11. The Lifelong Process of Leadership Development
12. A Future Where Women Leaders Thrive
Appendix A: Discussion Questions
Appendix B: Study Instruments
Appendix C: Study Interview and Focus Group Participant Descriptors
Appendix D: Study Survey Participant Descriptors
Appendix E: Analysis of Study Participants' Leadership Authority
Appendix F: Study Assumptions, Delimitations, Limitations, Reliability, and Validity
Index