Spotlight on Resources for a Strong and Effective Stephen Leader Team

This continuing education event focused on an essential aspect of your congregation’s Stephen Ministry: helping your Stephen Leader Team thrive now and far into the future. It provided a variety of ideas and tools for developing a compelling Stephen Ministry mission, cultivating a positive team environment, ensuring mutual support with the pastor, planning for ministry leadership succession, and more.

This webpage shares additional resources to help you strengthen your leadership team. You can also access the handout materials from the session at stephenministries.org/teamresources.

Key Leader’s Manual Resources

The Stephen Ministry Leader’s Manual, completely revised and updated in 2020, gives you and the rest of your Stephen Leader Team the foundational knowledge and resources to build and maintain an effective, life-changing Stephen Ministry in your congregation.

These folders in the updated Leader’s Manual provide essential information for building and maintaining a strong and effective Stephen Leader Team:

• L-1, “Build a Stephen Leader Team”

• L-1B, “Recognizing and Affirming Your Stephen Ministry Team”

• L-2, “Pastors as Vital Members of Your Leadership Team”

To order the Leader’s Manual, call us at (314) 428-2600.

Additional Resources from the Stephen Leader Online Toolkit

The web component of the Leader’s Manual, the Stephen Leader Online Toolkit is a growing, regularly updated library of resources to support each aspect of your Stephen Ministry. Access is included along with the new edition of the Leader’s Manual.

You can find additional information related to your Stephen Leader Team in the L-1, L-1B, and L-2 sections.

Additional Resources

The Stephen Leader Training Course. This live, interactive training allows you to add new Stephen Leaders to your team and learn from the latest Stephen Ministry resources. Call us at (314) 428-2600 or check out stephenministries.org/SLTC for details.

Becoming a Stephen Leader: A Meaningful Investment in Yourself and Others. You can share this webpage with those you invite to join your Stephen Leader Team. It includes essential information about being a Stephen Leader, a video introducing the training, and words from others who have been trained.

Print Resources

Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers collects 50 team exercises that can be easily integrated into any meeting, including Stephen Leader Team meetings and Stephen Minister supervision sessions. It provides clear, simple ways to help people grow as a team.

Combining Bible verses, prayers, and reflections on a wide range of leadership issues, Leadership Prayers helps leaders nurture a right relationship with God. Topics range from wisdom, integrity, and values to marketing, communication, and budget, offering deep insights in to the nature of leadership.

A Concise Introduction to Stephen Ministry provides an excellent first look at Stephen Ministry for key church leaders who haven’t yet attended Stephen Leader training. It explores what Stephen Ministry is, how it supports the mission of the congregation, and ways the pastor can make best use of this ministry.

A key book in Stephen Minister training, the lessons on assertive communication in Caring Assertiveness are just as important for Stephen Leaders. Its exploration of the essence of assertiveness and practical guidelines for relating with directness, honesty, and respect in all areas of life will benefit every Stephen Leader Team.