OPEN THE FLOODGATES
Mobilize a Spiritual Movement
DOCTOR OF MINISTRY FOCUS GROUP
— OPEN THE FLOODGATES —
God’s Church is intended to be a growing spiritual movement that can transform the world — and God is looking for leaders who feel called to become movement mobilizers.
In this DMin group, learn how to open the floodgates by activating your congregation to become a growing, spreading spiritual movement — with ongoing churchwide prayer as the foundational fuel. This will be an opportunity for you to stoke the fire in your own belly and move from simply administrating your church to leading it forward!
The DMin group will build upon the leadership learnings found in Floodgates: Holy Momentum for a Fearless Church (Abingdon Press, 2016) and its signature focus on the practical power of a “Breakthrough Prayer Initiative.”
You’ll observe and learn first-hand from cutting-edge congregational deployment innovations already in action across the country. You’ll also research and create an innovative practical model through your doctoral project, which you can utilize to mobilize the spiritual movement in your unique church setting. The DMin group will culminate with your exploration of the potential publication of new movement/deployment tool(s) that may be created as part of your doctoral project, so churches everywhere may also benefit.
Students should expect to encounter and invest deeply with leading innovators/innovations around the country and beyond in order to research, apply and create around these plus other themes:
- The crucial contagion of prayer in underwriting a spiritual movement of possibility
- Effectively leading through resistance — by leveraging your own wiring
- “StoryBrand” as a unique essential for congregational urgency
- Creating environments for spiritual decisions
- Bold: the posture of leadership that mobilizes others to serve
- “Math” of Mission: designing measurements to track your movement’s specific fruitfulness.
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Rev. Dr. Scott Carlson
Co-Mentor
Rev. Scott Carlson is Director of Congregational Development for the Wisconsin Conference of The United Methodist Church, where he previously served as a District Superintendent (2015-2022). He was ordained a deacon in 1989 within the North Dakota Annual Conference, and was ordained an elder in 1994 in the Wisconsin Annual Conference. Scott has served a variety of congregations throughout his career, and he is passionate about helping local churches become healthy and dynamic.
Rev. Dr. Sue Nilson Kibbey
Co-Mentor
Rev. Dr. Sue Nilson Kibbey is an ordained United Methodist elder, whose local church ministry appointments have included a variety of roles, including a decade as executive pastor of Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church in Tipp City, Ohio. Sue has served on the executive staff of the West Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church as the creator and director of the Missional Church Consultation Initiative (MCCI). Most recently, Sue served for five years as the inaugural director of the Bishop Bruce Ough Innovation Center at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, where she continues to teach as a doctoral mentor and as Affiliate Faculty in Leadership for Ministry.