Emerge is a comprehensive leadership development process for laity. Participants gain a better understanding of their own leadership strengths and style, spiritual formation, church systems, and missional church concepts. Program graduates become more confident decision-makers, more steady supporters to the church staff and more knowledgeable and prepared leaders in times of church planning, growth and conflict.
Faculty
Emerge sessions are led by Organizational Health Associates in partnership with Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Dr. Robert L. Perry has been a pastor, missionary, associational director, organizational consultant and businessman. Bob has written six books and led hundreds of conferences and consultations nationwide on church leadership, church health and strategic planning.
Dr. Marilyn C. Nelson served for 23 years as a missionary in New Mexico, New York, Missouri and Washington, DC. She was a seminary professor at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. With degrees in social work, she has specialized in volunteer management, supervision and lay mobilization.
What Emerge Alumni Are Saying
“I have learned many things about myself…that enable me to be a better team leader in a church setting, corporate setting, or even a family setting.”
“It’s been valuable to me to be able to talk freely about challenges our church faces with people from other churches who have an unbiased perspective.”
“I believe Emerge will help me be a more effective leader both in my church and in my personal life. I would highly recommend this program to others.”
“Learning about the power in the church and family systems have whet my appetite for more – I had a strong desire to share this information further, with the church staff’s help, to try and make the church more healthy. ”
“I think that one of the most helpful elements of the Emerge conference has been the reflective dialogues we have done in small groups after a period of guided learning from our leaders. This has been good to hear the personal stories, share visions and express concerns with one another. The sharing has been such a great mix of both personal and church related that it reminds me that we cannot separate the two.”