by Sherrah Behrens | Nov 12, 2024 | The PLI Experience
The PLI Experience: Stories from the PLI Family Andrea and Rev. Jeffrey P. Howell are Leadership Essentials alumni. They live in Lansing, Illinois, and have been married for 42 years. They have three children and seven grandchildren. Jeffrey is the pastor of St. Paul...
by Sherrah Behrens | Oct 14, 2024 | The PLI Experience
The PLI Experience™: Stories from the PLI Family Rev. Kenton Birtell has served as the pastor of Mt. Calvary in Holdrege, Nebraska since 2000. He also serves a vacant congregation in a neighboring community. He and his wife Linda have been married for 33 years and...
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 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...
