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1 Timothy 2:2 reminds us to pass on what we have learned and entrust it to faithful people. The Missional Leadership Alliance (MLA) is intended to develop clergy as leaders to strengthen our ministries and to provide us with common language and shared purpose as we seek to pass on what we’ve learned as we raise up missional leaders and plant new churches.

MLA Phase 1
For new clergy

Phase 1 provides two years of on-the-job training for new clergy. This track has both online and in-person components and is more intensive than Phase 2.

MLA Phase 2
For All Other Clergy Active in Parish Ministry

As we seek to minister to an ever-changing culture, we need new resources and tools to strengthen our leadership and to effectively reach our shifting contexts with the Gospel. In addition, ministry leadership is hard and sometimes lonely work, so spaces of meaningful connection and shared learning with other leaders is also essential to clergy thriving. Phase 2 provides practical ministry training and spaces of connection to facilitate ongoing clergy development. Each year we have two in-person modules—one in the fall and one in the spring. Then, once a month, clergy will gather in Zoom process groups for 60-75 minutes to process both learning and ministry life together.

Clergy Call Schedule

Diocesan all-clergy calls occur in odd-numbered months and deanery calls during even -numbered months. Process Group calls for MLA Phase 2 are held monthly.

  All-Clergy Call Deanery Meeting/Call* MLA Process Group
August      
September      
October      
November     Clergy Conference (in-person)
December      
January      
February      
March     Clergy Conference (in-person)
April      
May      
June      
July      

* Deanery and MLA Process Group meeting times vary. Your dean will provide information on deanery gatherings (online and in-person) directly. Process Groups will work out their own meeting times.

All of us know the importance of lifelong learning and none of us should take the stance that we know everything. The pandemic taught us how much we need each other and how much we can learn from each other. The MLA program provides us with significant opportunities to grow together and we are grateful this vision has come to fruition.

For More Information

For more information about the MLA process, contact Mrs. Michelle Herbst.