{"id":144,"date":"2019-08-11T07:17:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T07:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2024-04-10T01:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T01:02:49","slug":"strengthen-churches","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/what-we-do\/strengthen-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthen Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\"  style='background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;'><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row \"><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_1_1 fusion-builder-column-1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last 1_1\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"   data-bg-url=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-text\"><p>Healthy churches produce healthy Christians and with a commitment to congregational assessment, confidential relationships, conflict resolution, mutual accountability, and the training and development of staff and leadership, the Central Conference journeys with every church toward health and growth.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Conference staff is available to assist your church in a number of ways.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Pastoral Search Process<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Central Conference staff is available to walk alongside congregations during the pastoral search process. From providing pulpit supply information to completing a church profile to assisting churches with finding the right pastoral candidate. Please contact the <a href=\"mailto:info@centralconf.org\">Central Conference<\/a> office for assistance.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Missional Vitality Pathway<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vitality is nothing less than a spiritual awakening in Christ. It is not about sustaining and maintaining; it\u2019s about thriving, growing, and depending on God to lead us deeper in Christ and further in mission.\u00a0 To learn more about how your church can begin or continue to be on this journey,\u00a0please contact <a href=\"mailto:jlinid@centralconf.org\">Jill Lind<\/a>, director of pastor and congregational care for the Central Conference.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Training Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Healthy, missional churches engage in routine cycles of renewal in their ministry. This may be done with assessments, custom coaching, partnerships, and specialized training events.To learn more about training opportunities, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/lead-initiative\/lead-introduction\/\">LEAD Initiative<\/a>, please contact Jill Lind, director of pastor and congregational care for the Central Conference.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/1342"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralconf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}