This cultural moment is ripe for women to step into their full calling within the local church. Burdened by a Church history that has not always embraced women as full partners in the Jesus mission, we envision a future where women are encouraged, equipped, to use their voice, and embrace their part in God’s Kingdom.
Regardless of the reality that we find ourselves at different places on the theological spectrum of complementarian and egalitarian, we hope to come together to encourage both women and men to be even more equipped to work together in our collective missional calling.
Join Exponential NEXT this year as we curate a series of podcasts, articles and videos featuring conversations with women (and a few men) who are activated in their calling while championing the roles of women in the local Church.
Impacting others is part of our leadership calling. This series will encourage leaders to invest in their soul, their team, their voice, and their mission as they work to influence every level of leadership and generation.
Caring for our soul is necessary to keep our leadership strong. Mindy shares 6 practical ways to reduce burnout and embrace flourishing leadership. These practices will allow us to serve Jesus well!
One of the best ways to strengthen your influence is to invest in and apprentice others at every level of your leadership. Jacqueline will share her journey as others invested in her and how she works to use her influence to invest in others.
Being able to impact the next generation is vital to the forward mission of the Church. From meeting them where they are at both physially and digitally, to empowering others to lead with you, Julia convinces us that Gen Z needs us to show up for them. With practical and real life examples, you will be equipped to make a discipleship difference and level up your leadership with Gen Z.
If you are called to lead, you are called to use your voice. But many of us think way more about using our intellect than we work on using our actual, physical voice. As a professional actor and long time college professor in the theater department at Columbia University, Kristi now coaches communicators to not only use their voice but their movement and body to most effectively convey their message. In this video, you will learn practical tips that you can put into play right now to become an even more effective communicator.
To strengthen your missional impact, you will need to have an awareness of your sentness. In this episode, Lori shares practical tools to help you deepen your relationship with God, cultivate your gifts and abilities, and learn to listen for where God would have you minister. Remember, faithfulness is our part of the missional equation, fruitfulness belongs to God!
Lori M. Ruffin is an upbeat strategic thinker, speaker, and the founder of The COO Team, an operations agency that helps visionary leaders get the strategy and systems they need to scale. Drawing from her experience at a Fortune 500 company, years serving national and international nonprofits, and an MBA program from Regent University, she has worked with and consulted ministries such as Movement Leaders Collective, Kumveka, Women Doing Well, Generous Giving, The V3 Movement, Created Leaders, The Voices Project, Uptick, and Arrabon. She’s co-founder of the Black Missional Convening and serves on a handful of nonprofit boards. Living in Richmond, Virginia, she serves as a lay leader in a local urban ministry context with her husband, Marques, and three daughters. You can connect with Lori at lori@thecooteam.com.
Sue Ferguson is a follower of Jesus, a wife to Dave, mom to 3 adult kids, sister, friend, mentor,and a connector of people. Sue helped plant Community Christian Church in the Chicagoland area and has served in a number of different ministry roles there. She loves to create safe, brave spaces for others to process faith and life; and to help other leaders develop the desire and skills to do the same. She loves to encourage women leaders to develop their gifts and use them for the sake of the Kingdom! She is a co-director and a content creator for Exponential Women Next. She is excited to equip, empower, and cheer on the next generation of women leaders! You can contact Sue at sueferguson@communitychristian.org.
