Leadership Development

Welcome to the Leadership Development portion of the NIC web site. Our purpose is to provide resources and expertise to the local church. Many people are available to you in your work of growing disciples for Jesus Christ and helping your local church be even better in its ministries. We welcome the opportunity to serve you and invite you to connect to the links (on the left) that will take you to each of the Resource Teams that are part of Leadership Development.

If I can be of help to you, please contact me at 765.662.2414 (home), 765.664.5177 (church) or 765.661.3750 (cell). My e-mail at home is kayepatton@indy.rr.com or at the church at pastor@firstmethodistmarion.org.

We look forward to serving you. Even as we are developing new resources for you through our Annual Conference, you should also explore the website for the United Methodist Church.

• Shalom,
• Rev. Kaye Patton, Chair of Leadership Development

Items of Interest:

We encourage you to explore the links to the left to learn more about each of these areas of Leadership Development. We look forward to hearing from you and as our resources are further developed, they will be posted on this web site or available through the Conference office.

There are several general United Methodist Church web sites with more information about these areas:

• www.umc.org - The official UMC web site
• www.gbod.org - The UM General Board of Discipleship web site
• www.gbhem.org - The UM General Board of Higher Education Ministries web site
• www.unitedmethodist.org - Igniting Ministries (view TV spots and articles)