About Us

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Core Values • Administrative Team • Support Staff

What Is the Center for Pentecostal Leadership & Care?

The purpose of the Center for Pentecostal Leadership and Care is to cultivate and sustain pastoral excellence and holistic ministry leadership in all areas of church life. This purpose is being pursued in the following ways:

Conducting pastoral leadership research
Publishing well-researched and context relevant print and Internet pastoral leadership resources
Development of national network of pastoral covenant groups
Identification and training of pastoral coaches and mentors
Providing ministry consultants to pastors and congregations
Partnership with congregations, pastors, districts, and denominational leaders to provide clergy assessment, renewal, and formation experiences
Collaborate with national, international foundations, pastoral development projects in order to serve the needs of the larger Pentecostal movement and Christian community

Our Vision of Pastoral Excellence

We believe excellence in pastoral ministry involves

Consistent practice of spiritual disciplines
Maintenance of the pastor's physical, emotional, family, and financial health
Ministering and leading in community with other pastors and believers
Effectively preaching and teaching the Word
Discipling, giving compassionate care, and providing spiritual direction for searching and hurting people.
Effectively leading and administering people in local church ministry
Multiplication of ministry through mentoring and coaching others in a shared journey of development

Core Values

Our goal is to cultivate and sustain Excellence in Pentecostal (Pastoral) ministry.
We believe Formation is more important than information.
We are developing a Healthy Process (not offering a program).
Covenant relationships of peer accountability, care, and resourcing are essential to pastoral excellence and, thus, Pastoral Covenant Groups are the heart of our pastoral development model.
Pastor-centered and pastor-directed curriculum is our method.
We will exercise Facilitative leadership by mentoring, coaching, and resourcing pastors, congregations, and church leadership.
We are committed to Collaboration and Consultation with denominational leaders, pastoral research projects, and other seminaries and institutions serving the interest of pastoral excellence.
We believe Healthy Pastors develop Healthy Congregations.
We are committed to producing and recommending Context relevant and Pentecostal friendly resources.
Healthy Evaluation practices are essential to effectiveness.

Administrative Team

James P. Bowers, Ph.D.
Executive Director / Vice President for Academics
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Milton D. Carter, D.Min.
Associate Director

J. Randolph Turpin, D.Min.
Assistant Director / Program Coordinator

Support Staff

Lora Langford
Executive Assistant and Coordinator of Development

Yvonne Chelette
Administrative Secretary