The Disciples Leadership Institute (DLI) brings together emerging Disciples leaders, seeking to deepen understanding and develop relationships across perceived boundaries of race, culture and language. This month a past DLI participant, Richie Sanchez, who has just recently been called to serve as the Regional Minister for the Pacific Southwest Region, shares what he gained from […]

The HELM Leadership Fellows Program is for undergraduate students who are part of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).  The Program aims to develop leaders through an intentional focus on four major areas.  The first year of the program focuses on Community and students reflect on what it means to be Christian community. The them […]

One of the principal aims of the Leadership Fellows Program (LFP) is to cultivate and strengthen participants’ potential for leadership. According to Krista Johnson Weicksel, her participation in the LFP did that and more. Below are some of her reflections on what she learned from the program and how it helped form her. On Confidence: […]

2019 Retreat to be held in Oakland / San Francisco Bay area and will focus on Homelessness In the almost two decades of the HELM Leadership Fellows Program, the annual fall retreat has been held in many different places throughout the US. For the first time, the retreat will be held in California. From October […]