Healthy Leaders.
Be One.
Build Many.
We equip churches and Christian ministries to build healthy leaders and churches to transform their nations.
Centrality of Christ
Christian leadership must be built on and in union with the Person of Jesus Christ. Our work begins and ends with Jesus!
Local Leadership
We operate within and focus on the context and needs of indigenous front-line leaders. We seek to understand and serve what God is already doing in the nations.
Life Transformation
Our goal is holistic transformation in the lives of the leaders we serve. We build healthy leaders who go on to build healthy churches!
Our Mission
To catalyze and strengthen indigenous movements of healthy leader development and care, and thereby accelerate church planting and disciple-making, especially among the least served.
Our Work
LeaderSource work is characterized by high levels of indigenous ownership and depth of true contextualization. We work with indigenous leaders in the following ways.
Pray
We pray for leaders and churches in the nations, asking God to birth a work of deep change and crying out to Him to raise up healthy leaders and healthy churches across the nations.
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Envision
We are visionaries. We envision leaders with a vision for building healthy leaders, healthy churches, and generational succession.
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Nurture
We are spiritual mothers and fathers. We nurture leaders in their own spiritual lives, biblical understanding, marriages, families and ministries. One of the greatest needs of leaders around the world is for spiritual mothers and fathers. Our team provides love, prayer, care and support for leaders.
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Train
We are teachers. We train leaders on the core principles and practices of healthy leader development. We do not just give them a particular curriculum or preplanned leader development “package” but instead help them to internalize the fundamental biblical principles of holistic leader development.
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Coach & Consult
We are mentors. We coach them on an ongoing basis as they form and implement their own training designs in their own environments. We also consult with them on a wide variety of life and leadership issues.
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Resource
We are providers. We resource them with printed materials, models, frameworks, tools, examples of learning design, and case studies of effective leader development in a variety of contexts, and other pertinent resources.
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Launch
We are pioneers. We help leaders launch new forms of training in various ministry sectors, exploring what really works in their local context.
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Network
We are networkers. We help them network with leaders from other ministries and church planting movements who are wrestling with the same issues – for mutual learning, collaboration, encouragement and leader care. We also network with other ministries who share a similar vision and who serve the national churches.
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Pray
We pray for leaders and churches in the nations, asking God to birth a work of deep change and crying out to Him to raise up healthy leaders and healthy churches across the nations.
Read More
Envision
We are visionaries. We envision leaders with a vision for building healthy leaders, healthy churches, and generational succession.
Read More
Nurture
We are spiritual mothers and fathers. We nurture leaders in their own spiritual lives, biblical understanding, marriages, families and ministries. One of the greatest needs of leaders around the world is for spiritual mothers and fathers. Our team provides love, prayer, care and support for leaders.
Read More
Train
We are teachers. We train leaders on the core principles and practices of healthy leader development. We do not just give them a particular curriculum or preplanned leader development “package” but instead help them to internalize the fundamental biblical principles of holistic leader development.
Read More
Coach & Consult
We are mentors. We coach them on an ongoing basis as they form and implement their own training designs in their own environments. We also consult with them on a wide variety of life and leadership issues.
Read More
Resource
We are providers. We resource them with printed materials, models, frameworks, tools, examples of learning design, and case studies of effective leader development in a variety of contexts, and other pertinent resources.
Read More
Launch
We are pioneers. We help leaders launch new forms of training in various ministry sectors, exploring what really works in their local context.
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Network
We are networkers. We help them network with leaders from other ministries and church planting movements who are wrestling with the same issues – for mutual learning, collaboration, encouragement and leader care. We also network with other ministries who share a similar vision and who serve the national churches.
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Our Levels of Engagement
Our strategy involves the following four plateaus of maturation in our relationships with indigenous leaders and networks we serve:
Connection
During an initial connection with a church network or ministry, our team gets to know them, works to ascertain their leader development needs, shares a brief overview of our models, and casts vision.
Engagement
A network and its leaders are engaged when they have been introduced to our healthy leader development practices and the leaders indicate an interest in learning more.
Adoption
To encourage adoption of healthy leader development among networks and their leaders, we engage in dialogue and coaching with top leaders to help them commit their organizations to healthy leader development. We also provide training for mid-level leaders and teachers so they understand the models, value them, are committed to using them, and have the ability and confidence to implement them.
Multiplication
We equip and encourage them to multiply healthy leader development by repeating this cycle among other leaders and networks with whom they have relationship. This is the point at which new indigenous multiplying movements of healthy leader development begin.
Our Indicators of Success
Evaluation is an essential part of our work in leader development. Our impact numbers have been independently verified.
Activities
We envision, nurture, train, coach, and resource leaders, help them launch new forms of training, and help them network with leaders from other ministries.
Outcomes
The immediate outcomes of our work among indigenous leaders are an increase in their understanding of transformational leader development, an increase in their vision and motivation to do this work themselves, and an increase in their ministry’s work of doing transformational leader development.
Impact
We hope to see the transformation of life and ministry in those who are trained, so they are healthier in life and family, and more fruitful in their ministry work. The longer-term impact of our work is that the leaders and church networks we work with improve their own leader development work.
Our Vision
In the coming years, we hope to establish ongoing work in many nations nurturing movements of healthy leader development that will build healthy churches and reach the unreached to transform their nations.
A New Paradigm
Our ConneXions model is a new – in reality, old – approach to leader development.
Here are brief descriptions of our foundational ConneXions models. These models inform and direct everything we do in leadership development.
The 5C Goal of Healthy Leader Development
A healthy Christian leader knows God (Christ), was formed and lives in supportive and accountable community (Community), has integrity (Character), knows the purpose of God and presents it with credibility, clarity, and passion (Calling), and has the necessary thinking and acting capacities to effectively lead the people in the accomplishment of this purpose (Competencies).
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The 4D Process of Healthy Leader Development
Jesus’ method of building leaders was a rich holistic process, involving spiritual, relational, experiential, and instructional dynamics.
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The Healthy Church Model
A healthy church is one in which every member is functioning properly – growing in God, serving others, building others, and reaching out.
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LeaderID
It is a core principle of leader development that we must build the right ones. But how can we identify them? How can we recognize those who have the calling to lead? In LeaderID, we unfold a biblical, proven and practical model for identifying the right emerging leaders to invest in.
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LeaderStream
God has one purpose all through history that is expressed through many generations, not just through individuals or through one generation. Everything we do should carry this vision!
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Transformational Thinking
To “love God with all your mind” means to fully explore and use the thinking capacities He has given you, in a manner always proceeding from, and subject to, His indwelling Presence. This is what it means to properly “think” according to God’s original intention for man. This is thinking that has been transformed and is itself transformational with the power to deeply change the lives of others for God’s glory!
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Shaping a Culture of Generosity
Developed in collaboration with GenerousChurch, this model aims to bring Christian leaders into a deep and personal embracing of generosity in their own lives and to help them shape a vibrant culture of generosity in the churches and ministries they lead.
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The 5C Goal of Healthy Leader Development
A healthy Christian leader knows God (Christ), was formed and lives in supportive and accountable community (Community), has integrity (Character), knows the purpose of God and presents it with credibility, clarity, and passion (Calling), and has the necessary thinking and acting capacities to effectively lead the people in the accomplishment of this purpose (Competencies).
The 4D Process of Healthy Leader Development
Jesus’ method of building leaders was a rich holistic process, involving spiritual, relational, experiential, and instructional dynamics.
The Healthy Church Model
A healthy church is one in which every member is functioning properly – growing in God, serving others, building others, and reaching out.
LeaderID
It is a core principle of leader development that we must build the right ones. But how can we identify them? How can we recognize those who have the calling to lead? In LeaderID, we unfold a biblical, proven and practical model for identifying the right emerging leaders to invest in.
LeaderStream
God has one purpose all through history that is expressed through many generations, not just through individuals or through one generation. Everything we do should carry this vision!
Transformational Thinking
To “love God with all your mind” means to fully explore and use the thinking capacities He has given you, in a manner always proceeding from, and subject to, His indwelling Presence. This is what it means to properly “think” according to God’s original intention for man. This is thinking that has been transformed and is itself transformational with the power to deeply change the lives of others for God’s glory!
Shaping a Culture of Generosity
Developed in collaboration with GenerousChurch, this model aims to bring Christian leaders into a deep and personal embracing of generosity in their own lives and to help them shape a vibrant culture of generosity in the churches and ministries they lead.
Hands-on experiences, especially in the actual day-to-day work of the church, building the community of faith as a partnership needs to be at the center of the leadership learning process. I have seen few efforts toward this goal that are more responsible to the teachings of the New Testament and more carefully modeled on the ways that Christ and the apostles used to establish strong churches than the ConneXions Model.
I love LeaderSource! Why? Because they know that leadership is all about Jesus! They don’t mess around with tips and techniques which most leadership development groups tend to do. Rather, they keenly focus on that which really matters: Being Rooted in Christ!
In our 25+ years of partnering with ministries, we have yet to come across one doing leader development as well as LeaderSource.
Our nurture of over a thousand leaders every year has been radically and significantly altered as a result of the knowledge, wisdom and understanding we have received through the LeaderSource training teams.
I praise God for Dr. Malcolm Webber and his team for transforming my life and ministry. He gave me a biblical framework for understanding Christian leadership and leader development. I have since then used the ConneXions Model of leader development as descriptive, prescriptive, and evaluative tools in the seminary, in the church and in the organization many times. I can never thank LeaderSource enough.
I started using the SpiritBuilt approach and its critical thinking ten years ago and will be using it in Chile next week. Dr. Webber’s ability to break down complex concepts and add illustrations and tools that are transferable is literally an answer to prayer. I use various sources for my leader development work in other countries, but Dr. Webber’s work is the cornerstone of all I do.
After 40 years of worldwide travel, including over 20 years of active service in the training of Persian-speaking Christians for the ministry, I wholeheartedly endorse the ConneXions Model of training by Dr. Malcolm Webber as the best model available globally
LeaderSource helped us to clearly define and understand what a healthy leader should look like and provided us with a flexible and easily implantable framework to raise up current and future leaders. We have adopted these frameworks throughout our organizational operation and language. LeaderSource has deeply influenced us as an organization and has caused us to make intelligent and purposeful leadership development part of our culture
Leader development guided by LeaderSource is built upon a strong biblical foundation of enduring and reproducible practices. Indigenous leaders may creatively adopt these readily transferable principles of learning within their culture.
From the very beginning, LeaderSource’s services have exceeded our expectations. Their materials are simple and easy to implement, and their love for Christ and people has resulted in deepened interest in developing themselves and others for the sake of our Lord. Overall, LeaderSource has been a fantastic partner that we would recommend to other organizations seeking guidance in their leader development efforts.
LeaderSource is highly respected and highly rated by those who have received their training, because those trained actually put into practice what they have learned, then successfully pass their training onto others. I have personally been changed by the ministry of LeaderSource, so I can whole-heartedly encourage others to get to know them more.
The genius of this approach is that LeaderSource has resisted every effort to make a formula or system that bypasses the need for a leader to pour his life into the ones he is training in a Spirit-led way. Too many approaches to leader development are formulaic, and neglect the need for Spirit-led application to each unique individual. Malcolm’s approach capitalizes on the strengths and unique giftings and callings that God has given to each emerging leader.
LeaderSource takes their partners through a process that equips and empowers them to build their own leaders. This is one of the best for anyone looking to take their leadership development to the next level.
The resources and programs of LeaderSource have been game-changers for me as an author and leader. While other populist materials focus on endless lists of functions we should do, author Malcolm Webber provides a vital framework that is biblical and practical. His brilliant models are scalable and transferable between cultures, lifting the lid on how many can be genuinely transformed.
The ConneXions Model provides a truly cross-cultural missions expression that is easy to contextualize within any setting. We have been using the LeaderSource model, books, and materials in over 35 countries for almost ten years. The simplicity of the model and yet the profound impact that it makes has been transformational for our leaders.
If there’s one word to describe the work of LeaderSource, it’s godly. From its mission and ministry principles to the team that’s behind LeaderSource, it’s evident that they live out what they preach and teach. The generous manner in which LeaderSource serves indigenous movements around the world is a great blessing to the global Church.
The LeaderSource seminar I attended was the most Christ-centered and comprehensive encounter with leader development I have experienced. Simple enough to adapt to the dynamic challenges of grass-roots emerging church leadership and theologically sound enough for institutions to apply at every level.
The material from LeaderSource ministry has helped us to look at the way we recruit, develop and deploy people in ministry. This is one cause I would highly recommend for senior leaders, mid-level leaders, and incoming leaders. The material applies across all levels of leadership. It doesn’t point leaders to people but to Christ.
LeaderSource has contributed significantly to our commitment to developing leaders within our organization. Malcolm Webber’s biblical depth and years of wisdom and study in leader development is invaluable. LeaderSource’s open-handed attitude to their materials makes them easily accessible and is refreshing. We are looking forward to greater partnership into the future.
LeaderSource gave me clarity on what is a healthy leader. It gave me a framework – the 5Cs and 4Ds – to incorporate into every kind of training I am engaged in: from one-on-one to large group teaching. It gave me a universal leader language.
I have no hesitation in recommending LeaderSource to help facilitate leader development programs for any organization or church network, especially those in non-Western contexts. Their ConneXions Model is highly effective in laying a good biblical foundation for emerging leaders from Asia and the Middle East, because it essentially covers all the relevant areas that need to be addressed in the making of a good Christ-centered leader.
