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Launchpad Partners Support Calls - 2024

As inclusive faith leaders, we're faced with unique challenges, often with no colleagues to help.

Join Launchpad as we gather leaders from across our network in various stages of launching and leading. We’ll begin with a few moments of centering, then use the rest of the time to support one another, sometimes through open conversation and sometimes through intentional discussion. 

Recent calls have focused on the challenges of leading people through the regathering process and strategies for planning teaching or preaching series. You’re invited to propose a topic or question to us in advance or to come to the call with a challenge you’re facing. You’re also welcome to simply show up to support other leaders and offer your help. 

These 90-minute calls are hosted on Zoom for no cost and the dates rotate monthly.

Launchpad Partners Support

​As inclusive faith leaders, we're faced with unique theological challenges, often with no colleagues to help.

Once a month we'll gather to reflect theologically as leaders in our individual and shared context. With the support of our partners at Faith & Justice Network, we'll curate conversations around decolonization, power, bias, deconstruction and more through resources written by BIPOC, LGBTQ and women authors and speakers.

Content will coordinate with the monthly curriculum of 

. When you sign up to join Launchpad Partners Reflect, you'll receive a discount code to subscribe to F&J's online platform for only $15 a month. This space is rich with content that will inspire your leadership and your spiritual life.

Each month, we'll pull one or two articles or topics from F&J's resources and post them here. If you'd like to read those resources before joining the call, you'll be glad you did, but if you don't have the capacity, you're welcome to show up and join the conversation anyway. The time will be curated so you can engage without any preparation.

Sign up for the whole year of sessions or drop in when it fits your schedule. We hope this time will become a sacred space for you to listen, learn and reflect as you grow in a supportive community with like-minded leaders.

Launchpad Partners Reflect

Join us on September 30th at 6pm ET to learn how churches and faith communities can best use Planning Center.

 is church management software that lets you organize people, fundraise, recruit volunteers and manage small groups. There are many similar tools on the market but we've found Planning Center to be the easiest to use while still being very powerful.

Launchpad Partner's Aaron Bailey has implemented Planning Center at two different churches and consulted other communities on its use. He'll walk through why he loves Planning Center, how you can sign up for a free account, and how he recommends using it. There will be time for questions, as well.

If you can't make it to the live Zoom call but would like to receive a recording of the call, please register and we'll send the recording to everyone registered.