OUR TRAINING
Our commitment is to train and multiply missional leaders
God is raising up pastors, spouses, and ministry leaders around the world who long to lead His people in making disciples and living out the mission of God, everywhere and every day.
Growing as a kingdom-minded, Christ-like, and mission-focused leader is a lifelong journey—one that flourishes in community. Through PLI, experienced leaders walk alongside others to foster transformational growth: strengthening character, renewing marriages, and shaping ministries that reflect Christ and multiply kingdom impact.
That’s why PLI exists—to provide relational, formational training that develops leaders for God’s mission.
Through an equipped and transformed leader, the whole body of Christ is strengthened as baptized believers are empowered to participate in the mission of God, together.
Today, PLI is training in six global regions: Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Europe, Latin America, and the US and Canada. This growing reach is possible through PLI’s unique, context-driven approach and our kingdom partners—donors, trainers, and networks—who generously and faithfully join us in how God is leading.
Four questions that shape missional leadership
Your partnership helps leaders wrestle with these questions and grow into Christ-centered, mission-focused leaders who are equipped to bring the Gospel to more people.
Is my life and leadership aligned with God's vision and mission—and am I the kind of leader people want to follow?
Living and leading God's mission
Leaders reflect on how their life, family, marriage, and ministry align with God’s mission to restore all people to Himself. Through scripture-based training, PLI equips them to grow in character, clarity, and the kind of Christ-centered leadership others want to follow.
How do I lead change for the sake of the mission of God?
Leading change
Leaders learn what it takes to lead change in their lives and ministries so inward-focused congregations become outward, mission-focused communities.
How do I unite and engage people around God's mission?
Uniting people
Leaders learn how to bring people together and engage them to join the mission of God. PLI teaches leaders to follow Jesus’ relational pattern with God, one another, and those without Christ so that disciples grow and new disciples are made.
How do I raise up and multiply leaders to expand God's mission?
Multiplying leaders
Leaders begin to see God moving in their local ministries, and, through PLI training, they learn to recognize, develop, and multiply new leaders. As new leaders grow, God’s mission expands and more people are connected to Jesus.
Our Approach
RELATIONSHIPS
We build relationships through partnership, friendship, mutual love, respect, and trust, between PLI and local leaders, and among leaders and couples learning and growing together.
CHRIST-CENTERED AND MISSION-FOCUSED
Every training begins with the mission field, not the church, in order to form leaders who live and lead with Christ at the center and the mission of God as their focus.
TRANSFORMATIONAL CURRICULUM
Our curriculum is rooted in scripture, personally transformative, and designed for practical ministry application. Our training is led and modeled by experienced, faithful, and fruitful leaders who develop kingdom-minded, Christ-like, mission-focused leaders.
ENGAGING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
PLI training blends teaching, discussion, reflection, visuals, exercises, and peer coaching to create a learning environment that fosters active participation and lasting transformation.
MOTIVATED PARTNERS
We invest in leaders who are eager to personally apply what they learn and to share it generously within their own networks and communities.
FAITHFUL FOLLOW-THROUGH
We follow-through on our commitments, modeling integrity, humility, and consistency in our partnerships.
What participants are saying
Kari and Rev. Patrick Rooney are PLI alumni living in Oregon. After a District President recommended PLI, the Rooney’s started their journey with the singular goal of equipping them for new opportunities and challenges in their congregation. Along the way, they uncovered that while change can’t be forced, an environment and opportunity for it can be embraced. They discovered together that God’s been equipping them to share their lives and to be a safe space for their three children, their community, and their congregation in order to experience God’s unconditional love and grace.
I’m very thankful for the teachings we get from PLI. Pastors are thinking about the mission of God and realizing what they have to do. We’ve been able to plant three more congregations thanks to this training. And others in the training are planting new congregations and showing people the way of God. If these evangelists get this PLI training, I believe their ministry will flourish because they’ll have the ability to evangelize people in their local communities. Many people will be invited to Christ.
Kristi and Rev. Terry Baughman are PLI alumni. They live in Michigan, where Terry is pastor at Crown of Life Lutheran Church and Preschool and Kristi is principal at Lutheran High School Northwest. Why PLI? We had discussions with other PLI alumni about how their ministry together and marriages were impacted. The PLI experience has helped give clarity of our walk with Jesus through the struggles that we face in our ministry, family and marriage in our day-to-day life.
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