by Sherrah Behrens | Oct 1, 2024 | Leadership
Creating and maintaining a rhythm of rest and work is a core teaching across PLI’s Learning Communities. The world around us shows a pattern of work, work, work, and then collapse into a bit of rest, which completely exhausts us, and then work, work, work some...
by Ben Haupt | Sep 18, 2024 | Leadership
Recently I led one of our online workshops entitled “Leading Change and Living to Tell About It.” One of the most difficult parts of leading change is how lonely it can feel for leaders. There are all kinds of doubts swimming in our heads about our own inadequacies,...
by Jock Ficken | Sep 3, 2024 | Leadership
How to Capture Hope and Courage when Both are in Short Supply If you want the people you lead to experience new hope and new courage, it starts with you. It always starts with the leader. Simple Truth: If you want to see a transformed ministry, it starts with a...
by Jock Ficken | Aug 26, 2024 | Leadership
People who start well oftentimes don’t finish well. And that includes those in ministries and ministry careers! I’m a football fan, and, in particular, a Cornhusker (a fading glory, I know!). A couple of decades ago, before the national championship seasons, Nebraska...
by Ben Haupt | Aug 20, 2024 | Leadership
by Rev. Dr. Ben Haupt Over the last month, I had the distinct opportunity to spend a ton of time with the retiring Executive Leader of PLI, Jock Ficken. He and I decided it would be helpful for him to introduce me to some key partners in PLI’s mission. So, Jock and I...
by Ben Haupt | Aug 7, 2024 | Leadership
by Rev. Dr. Ben Haupt 30 years ago this week, I met my wife. We were both delegates to a 4H leadership conference at the Indiana State Fair. How Indiana of us! It was fun to think back to those days meeting Celina for the first time and all we’ve traversed together...
