Leadership Nexus Foundation seeks to provide the best resources possible to help the Church in areas where the needs are greatest.  We have sought to be very sensitive to what’s happening in the Church including both challenges and opportunities and offer resources that can really help. 

Executive Director, Dr. Pierson, does training for local churches on what we call Workable Evangelism. You may visit the Workable Evangelism page for a full description of this very effective training for a local church, district, or area meeting. In addition to Workable Evangelism visit our Current Events page for a list of our current training events!

To schedule Dr. Pierson for your church, click here.

Upcoming Workable Evangelism Events:

•  Workable Evangelism ALL-DAY Event-
  First UMC, Gadsden, AL, April 21-22, 2012
  Event begins Saturday, 10:30am at FUMC Gadsen.
  Early Bird Cost is $40, before April 10, 2012.
  Regular Cost is $50, after April 10, 2012.
  For more information or to register for this event, click here.

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• Workable Evangelism ALL-DAY Event-
  First UMC, Butler, PA, May 5-6, 2012
  Details pending. Please check back or sign-up for the
  Leadership Nexus Foundation newsletter for updates. 

Other Events:

• 2012 Leadership Conference: Reaching for the Peak of Excellence- 
  First UMC, Colorado Springs, July 31- August 2, 2012.
  This three-day conference will be presented by Leadership Nexus Foundation.
  It will feature a host of highly-respected and influential speakers, teachers and
  clergy from all over the nation with expertise in leadership within the church.
  More details will be available soon. Please check back for more information and 
   sign-up for the Leadership Nexus Foundation newsletter for updates. 

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• Children’s Ministry Forum ‘12-
  Calvary UMC, Nashville, TN, February, 21 – 23, 2012
  Dr. Pierson will be speaking on Effectiveness in Children’s Ministry 
  and he will speak during a special pre-conference seminar
  for “Sr. Pastors Only”.
  
  REGISTER TODAY! 
  Registration is limited.
  Registration deadline is February 18, 2012.

Leadership Nexus Foundation strives to make 1/2 tuition scholarships available for most of our sponsored training events.  Please see the conference’s unique website for information on scholarships that are available.  You may also email Leadership Nexus Foundation for more information. 

Our executive director, Dr. Robert Pierson, has written two books of significance in the field of evangelism.

Needs-Based Evangelism ($15 + shipping) - discusses methods for presenting effective evangelism programs in the Church today, according to the model that Jesus Christ gave to us- seeking to help individuals where they hurt and based on their needs. This type of evangelism is particularly needed now, in light of modern cultural shifts.

TELL ($18 + shipping) -  This book discusses how we share our faith - providing practical and effective ways to share the gospel in a highly secular culture. Utilizing methods that are loving and grace-centered, not arrogant and self-righteous.  The ideas and suggestions are practical and can be used as a part of a ten-week emphasis on sharing your faith in a local church, called Time to Tell.  To purchase either of these books, email Bob Pierson.

Time to Tell – is a companion manual to TELL and will show how to organize the local church for a ten-week emphasis on sharing the faith

Prayer Journal – is designed to help individual Christians to pray, be encouraged, and gain direction in leading people to Christ

Our eNewsletters are designed to inform you of resources, materials, and ideas that we feel can be a valuable help to you. You may visit our archived eNewsletters page to download them.

Training is provided through Leadership Nexus Foundation on CDs and DVDs. These resources can be used in a local church, by an individual, by an Area meeting, etc. The DVDs/CDs are from well-qualified speakers who have practical experience in successful church leadership. Email us to receive a list of available DVDs and CDs.

Our Speakers Bureau is made available for the Church through Leadership Nexus Foundation.  The people in the Speakers Bureau are well-qualified and have spoken at our training events in the past.  They are available for speaking engagements across the country.  CDs, and/or DVDs from our speakers will be available soon!  See our Speakers Bureau to get a full description of our speakers.

Resources for Effectiveness - Leadership Nexus Foundation seeks to find resources that help the local church in doing the work of the Kingdom.  In this resource list there are a set of resources from various ministries and business that can help the Church significantly.  All of our resources are well-tested and proven to be effective.  They include:

Logos Bible Software's mission is to serve the church. Logos believes that Bible study should be at the heart of the Christian life. It's their privilege to equip pastors, students, missionaries, teachers, and the church at large with tools that make Bible study easier and more accessible. It's their responsibility to ensure that the investment in technology to serve the western church pays dividends for the whole world.

The Crouch Group is a full service marketing and advertising agency with offices in Denton, Texas and Springfield, Missouri. We work with clients of all sizes and budgets. Our focus is growing our clients' business with an intense concentration on results. The Crouch Group provides clients with campaign design and implimentation services, graphic design, web design, video production services and advertising specialties.

Internet Outreach Solutions is today's full service online solution. They offer a complete range of Websites, Social Media and Search Engine Optimization for health care offices and ministries. Internet Outreach Solutions specializes in new media marketing services. We provide our clients with maximum online exposure through the use of increasingly popular social media marketing networks, search engine and viral marketing, as well as an e-newsletter service.

Midnight Oil is passionate about worship that authentically communicates to today's digital culture. Their goal for Midnight Oil is to further the vision of worship for the digital age through ideas, resources and seminars that work for local churches. The vision for Midnight Oil began in 1998 and the ministry in April 2002. It is the continuation of a calling that started for each of us way back before there was an Internet.

Natural Church Development is a way of understanding church health and growth that views the church as a living organism. The focus is not on numerical growth, but on improving the health of the church, with the understanding–impressively documented by research–that when a church is sufficiently healthy, numerical growth will follow. These concepts are explained in the book Natural Church Development by Christian A. Schwarz.

ChurchSmart Resources is an independent Christian publishing company and training organization. Our focus is on church planting, church health and leadership development. They began publishing in 1994 with the goal to produce practical books and resource kits at affordable prices that would help church leaders improve their ministry effectiveness. We recruited authors who were experiencing positive results in their churches and could share the principles they applied and offer reproducible systems to others in ministry. Seminars soon followed to provide hands-on training for pastors, denominational leaders and other church leaders.

Churches By Daniels Construction is a construction manager, general contractor, design-builder. We serve Pastors, Churches and commercial developers from coast to coast.

JoPa Productions exists to bring people together around today’s most innovative ideas. Founded by Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones in 2008, the initial endeavor of JoPa was the Church Basement Roadshow which “reinvented the book tour” (Publisher’s Weekly) and The Great Emergence National Event, a celebration of the release of Phyllis Tickle’s eponymous book. JoPa continued this work in 2009 with two more events – the Moltmann Conversation and Christianity21 – as well as expanding the business into social media and marketing consultations.

The purpose of California Graduate School of Theology is to prepare men and women for faithful ministry in Church and society. Committed to a learned ministry for church and society, the school welcomes qualified students without regard to denomination, race, sex, or physical disabilities. The school seeks to strengthen and deepen the spiritual life of students, and through classroom and other academic activities, to engage them in critical discussions about the Bible and theology with probing questions regarding faith and life in today's world.

Perkins is a United Methodist seminary located in Dallas, Texas, providing a full gamut of theological education.  Perkins is associated with Southern Methodist University and is one of the finest seminaries in the United States.