Equipping Leaders to Serve Well.
Church Leadership Development provides practical, affordable training to help pastors and ministry leaders grow in biblical knowledge, leadership capacity, and ministry effectiveness.
CURRENT FALL COURSES
Choose Your Next Step
Whether you’re strengthening your biblical foundation or growing your leadership capacity, choose the course that fits where you are and where God is calling you next.
WHAT IS MISSIOLOGY?
Healthy churches are led by leaders who never stop growing.
Church Leadership Development exists to equip pastors and ministry leaders with biblical knowledge, practical leadership skills, and ministry tools that can be applied immediately in the local church.
Whether you're leading a department, serving on a ministry team, or preparing for future leadership opportunities, CLD helps you continue growing as a leader.
Leadership Development Happens Intentionally.
NEW THIS YEAR
Yearly Church Subscriptions Are Now Available
A Church Subscription is more than access to online courses. It's an opportunity to intentionally develop the leaders who serve your church. Rather than training one or two people at a time, you can equip pastors, staff, elders, ministry leaders, and volunteers through a shared leadership pathway. As leaders grow together, they develop a common language, shared values, and a unified approach to ministry.
With a Church Subscription, your church can:
Provide unlimited access to all current and future CLD courses
Develop current and emerging leaders through a clear leadership pathway
Create church-based cohorts that fit your ministry schedule
Strengthen your leadership culture through practical, biblically grounded training
Healthy churches are led by healthy leaders. A Church Subscription gives your church an affordable way to invest in leaders today while preparing the next generation to lead with confidence, character, and biblical conviction.
LEARNING PATHS
See a Pathway, Not Just a List of Classes
Organizing courses by category helps leaders understand where to begin and how their development can continue over time.
Leadership Development
Build the leadership capacity needed to serve, guide teams, and develop other leaders.
• Leading Yourself
• Leading Others
• Leading Departments
• Leading Leaders
• Leading Organizations
Biblical Foundations
Grow in theological depth and biblical understanding for faithful local church ministry.
• Christian Theology
• Church History
• Biblical Literacy
• Biblical Interpretation
WHAT MAKES CLD DIFFERENT?
Training Built for Leaders Serving Right Now
Practical
Training designed for real ministry challenges.
Flexible
Online learning that fits ministry schedules.
Biblical
Grounded in theology and Scripture.
Applicable
Tools and principles you can use immediately.
WHO IS CLD FOR?
Develop Leaders Before They Need the Title
You don’t have to wait for a ministry title to begin developing as a leader.
Pastors
Ministry Directors
Emerging Leaders
Staff Members
Volunteers
Anyone Preparing for Greater Leadership Responsibilities
Invest in the Leader You’re Becoming.
Leadership growth doesn't happen by accident. Start developing the knowledge, skills, and habits that lead to long-term ministry effectiveness.
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