The Moench Center For Church Leadership at Belmont University
We enrich church leaders by supporting personal and spiritual growth, cultivating transformational imagination, and creating opportunities to impact communities.
We enrich church leaders by supporting personal and spiritual growth, cultivating transformational imagination, and creating opportunities to impact communities.
Resources for
Life
Church leaders require support and encouragement for their personal and spiritual growth. Life coaches help identify goals and areas for focused improvement and spiritual direction creates conversations for work in the discipline of faith. Your life and your leadership will be healthier with focus on your personal and spiritual life.
Coaching & Spiritual Direction
Spiritual Formation
Young Preacher – You Are the Future!
Churches in the United States are on the brink of a pastoral crisis. According to a 2023 Barna Research study, three-quarters of pastors surveyed say they at least somewhat agree with the statement “It is becoming harder to find mature young Christians who want to be...
A Good Dose of Wonder: Preaching and Poetry
"The poet's job is to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, in such a beautiful way that people can't live without it; to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so...
Health and Vitality – Reflections on the Engaging Healthy Congregations Summit 2025
In September 2025, the Moench Center for Church Leadership hosted the Health and Vitality of the Church Summit in partnership with Center for Healthy Churches and the Moench Center’s Engaging...
Resources for
Imagination
Church leaders require imaginative solutions to real world leadership problems. The gospel is powerful and effective, but the church speaks into a culture of shifting values, technologies, and world views. Imaginative solutions for the church reimagine gospel truths for a new millennium.
Imagination
Resources for
Church leaders require imaginative solutions to real world leadership problems. The gospel is powerful and effective, but the church speaks into a culture of shifting values, technologies, and world views. Imaginative solutions for the church reimagine gospel truths for a new millennium.
Young Preacher – You Are the Future!
Churches in the United States are on the brink of a pastoral crisis. According to a 2023 Barna Research study, three-quarters of pastors surveyed say they at least somewhat agree with the statement “It is becoming harder to find mature young Christians who want to be...
Health and Vitality – Reflections on the Engaging Healthy Congregations Summit 2025
In September 2025, the Moench Center for Church Leadership hosted the Health and Vitality of the Church Summit in partnership with Center for Healthy Churches and the Moench Center’s Engaging...
Please Don’t Waste Your Transition Crisis!
What would you say is the best gift a Transitional Pastor can give a congregation? Most traditional interim training programs land heavily on the idea that the primary task of a church in...
Leadership as Learning to Let Go
I have a love affair with books. I started dating books when I saw Dick and Jane run after Spot in first grade. I nurtured the relationship in third grade when The Scholastic Book Club let me...
Resources for
Impact
Church leaders grow in skills and understanding for their roles. Participating in practical and missional training opportunities, developing new skills for key pastoral roles, and engaging new opportunities to expand one’s leadership portfolio improves impact for ministry.
Exploring the Future – Vision Trips
With our extensive contacts throughout Central America, Africa, and rural and urban America we can design an experience to help you envision future ministry opportunities for yourself or your church. We create opportunities for individual pastors, groups of pastors, or pastors and lay leaders. Intentional exploratory trips help feed the imagination as pastors explore areas of personal and congregational growth while equipping and supporting other ministries.
Teaching Pastors in Honduras Opportunities
Since 2015 the Moench Center for Church Leadership has supported a Certificate in Pastoral Leadership in Honduras in partnership with Luke 9:2 Ministries. This three year program offers quarterly classes training local pastors who are seeking to gain theological training and spiritual foundations. Opportunities exist to teach in this program during three day seminars, with translators, outside Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
IMAGINATION AND TRANSFORMATION PARTNERS
Reimagine Your Life and Ministry Today
Enriching church leaders to impact communities with imagination.