Our courses are led by experts in their respective fields, and more are being developed every day. Each is designed to elevate your skills and competence in this new era.
Faith and Photography
Have you ever considered photography, even with your smartphone, as a spiritual discipline that can draw you closer t...
Coaching Foundations
Looking to add coaching to your ministry certifications? While therapy helps people process their past, coaching is ...
Mini Think Tanks: Inviting Creative Imagination and Experimentation Into My Church
What might be possible if we create a think-tank of peers who want to get out of their own way, find ways past potent...
Ministry Alternatives: a mastermind for those who are considering a change
This mastermind is a six-month group coaching experience for those who've had enough. If you're burned out, overwhelm...
Zoom 3:16: Online Presence for Engagement
How many times in the last year have you said, "They didn't train us for this in seminary"? How could they have known...
Covenant for Conversation
When we engage in dialogue, it is good to have certain boundaries in order to create the space for us to speak, liste...
Antiracism from A to Z
This course is built for groups. Click for info about group pricing.
In seeking to build an anti-racist church...
Principled Leadership in Polarized Times
Leadership in this age when divisions harm community life presents an unprecedented challenge. In this course, Rev. ...
Create a Course With the Lakelands Institute
Do you have knowledge or experience that would help clergy and other church leaders? Take this short course to see if...
The church is in a wilderness. We can’t rely on our structures of in-person gathering, receiving the reassuring hug, the sound of combining our voices together in prayer and praise, the deep bonds reinforced in our small groups and Sunday school classes. Pastors are wandering, pivoting, not knowing what their role is when they can’t visit the sick, perform the rites and rituals and liturgies that form and inform the people of God.
“God’s response to the wanderers in the Exodus story was covenant. God reassured the people by making good on the promise to be with and to supply need. Manna, quail, and water from a rock. Wilderness need not be devoid of life-support. It was, and still is, supported and presided over by a life-giving and trustworthy God.”
Rev. Annette Flynn, MDiv, MSOD, ACC