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Growing Women in Ministry Seven Aspects of Leadership Development Anna R. Morgan While many aspects of leadership development are similar for women and men, women face different cultural expectations and have different experiences than their male counterparts. Anna Mor- gan’s own experiences in pastoral ministry leadership launched her search for a holistic way to grow the skills, influence, and authority of women who are gifted and called as leaders. This book provides a positive, comprehensive, research-based model for developing women in church and ministry leadership. Morgan identifies seven aspects of leadership development that form a woman over her lifetime. Three work inwardly as a woman grows in leadership: spiritual calling, giftedness, and emotional intelligence. Four work externally to shape her authority and influ - ence: home life supports, ministry leadership contexts, leadership relationships, and communication. Growing Women in Ministry offers a new way to understand how women leaders are formed and how they rise to become influen - tial leaders in positions of authority in churches and ministries. It includes policy suggestions, strategies, values for ideal growing conditions, and discussion questions, making it an ideal resource for ministry, practical theology, and leadership courses, church and parachurch leaders, and pastors.
AUGUST 2024 • 272 pp. • paper • $29.99 • 9781540967190
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Anna R. Morgan (DIS, Fuller Theological Seminary) is vice president of academics at Ascent College and copastor with her husband, John, of Word of Life, an Assemblies of God church. She is also affiliate associate professor of leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary, where she teaches students researching issues of power, race, and gender. Morgan has been in local church ministry since 1999, having served as a youth pastor, worship pastor, executive pastor, lead pastor, and church consultant.
Introduction
1. Leadership Development for Women in Ministry 2. A Model of Female Leadership Development
3. God Calling and Forming Female Leaders Spiritually: Aspect 1 4. Female Leaders Forming Leadership Cognition: Aspect 2 5. Female Leaders Forming Emotional Intelligence: Aspect 3 6. Female Leadership Formed by Home Life: Aspect 4 7. Female Leaders Formed by Ministry Environment: Aspect 5 8. Female Leaders Forming Influence through Leadership Relationships: Aspect 6 Part 1 9. Male-Female Ministry Partnerships: Aspect 6 Part 2 10. Female Leaders Forming Influence through Communica- tion: Aspect 7 11. The Lifelong Process of Leadership Development 12. A Future Where Women Leaders Thrive Appendix A: Discussion Questions Appendix B: Study Instruments Appendix C: Study Interview and Focus Group Participant Descriptors Appendix D: Study Survey Participant Descriptors Appendix E: Analysis of Study Participants' Leadership Authority Appendix F: Study Assumptions, Delimitations, Limitations, Reliability, and Validity Index
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