Marcuson Cohort✦
The United Methodist Foundation of Michigan is pleased to offer two small group cohorts on the building a sustainable ministry in the midst of chaotic times. Led by Margaret Marcuson and Joel Fitzgerald, the cohorts will work through Marcusson’s new book Sustainable Ministry: How to Lead (and When to Nap).
Sustainable Ministry: How to Lead (and When to Nap), by Margaret Marcuson: If you’re a pastoral leader, you likely find ministry tougher now than ever. The old way of doing church no longer works. You don’t know what to do to move forward. You want a sense of satisfaction in your life and work. Instead, you struggle with a sense of failure and loss. Sustainable Ministry: How to Lead (and When to Nap) will help you develop a more vibrant, more effective relationship with your work, with other church leaders, and your congregants. And with someone you may neglect: yourself. This book isn’t about the technique of ministry leadership. It’s about you and how you bring your best self to your ministry.
Rev. Chad Parmalee started reading the book and said, “Working on chapter 3! Finding encouragement to do the things that were already there to be done.”
Rev. Margaret Marcuson helps clergy get lighter and less burdened by their ministry so they can have more influence with less stress. She works with leaders from over 20 denominations across North America as teacher and coach. She is the co-leader of Leading with Depth, a family systems training program for clergy supported by the Conference. Margaret also is the author of Leaders who Last (2009) and Money and Your Ministry (2014). An American Baptist minister, she served as pastor at First Baptist Church, Gardner, MA for 13 years. She lives in Portland, OR, where she sings in two choirs.
Each cohort is open to 6 registrants and will meet monthly for 90 minutes beginning in October. Please register here.
Month |
|
|
|
| Tuesday Cohort |
|
|
|
| Wednesday Cohort |
October 2026 |
|
|
|
| October 20, 2026 |
|
|
|
| October 21, 2026 |
November 2026 |
|
|
|
| November 17, 2026 |
|
|
|
| November 18, 2026 |
December 2026 |
|
|
|
| December 15, 2026 |
|
|
|
| December 16, 2026 |
January 2027 |
|
|
|
| January 19, 2027 |
|
|
|
| January 20, 2027 |
February 2027 |
|
|
|
| February 23, 2027 |
|
|
|
| February 24, 2027 |
March 2027 |
|
|
|
| March 16, 2027 |
|
|
|
| March 17, 2027 |
April 2027 |
|
|
|
| April 20, 2027 |
|
|
|
| April 21, 2027 |
May 2027 |
|
|
|
| May 18, 2027 |
|
|
|
| May 19, 2027 |