Resupply
As leaders in the church we are called to give our hearts for God’s people and for our ministry together, to pour out our energy, inspiration and passion for the ministry of Christ. In order to answer that call we need places where we can go to be refilled and resupplied.
At the second Passionate Leadership Conference we will gather to encourage, challenge and inspire one another as we seek nourishment from the God of the Resupply. We will gather to celebrate the presence of God who fills us up again and again, that we might be poured out for God’s people.
The Passionate Leadership Conference was born out of a group of United Methodist pastors in Florida seeking to experience and share in revival and renewal in the church. We believe that church renewal begins with the passion of leaders, clergy and lay, who have been filled to overflowing with the power of the Holy Spirit.
For more information about the 2011 Passionate Leadership Conference please visit the new webpage here.
Audio from last year's Passionate Leadership Conference
We hope that the experience of the Passionate Leadership Conference was as powerful for you as it was for us and that it has and will continue to be proven fruitful. We would like to make available to you what was shared by our speakers and we thank them for their sharing and permission to do so.
To download audio of the presentations from the Passionate Leadership Conference speakers, right click the link next to their name.
Bishop William H. Willimon • audio
Rev. Jorge Acevedo • audio
Rev. Debbie McLeod • audio
2010 Speakers
visit here for the coming 2011 speakers and more information
Keynote Speaker
William H. Willimon leads the 157,000 Methodists and 792 pastors in North Alabama as a bishop of The United Methodist Church. For twenty years he was Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry at Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Willimon is a graduate of Wofford College (B.A., 1968), Yale Divinity School (M.Div., 1971) and Emory University (S.T.D., 1973). He has served as pastor of churches in Georgia and South Carolina. He is the author of nearly sixty books and many articles and curriculum materials.
Exclusive Videotaped Interview
Kirbyjon H. Caldwell is the Senior Pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. Pastor Caldwell is a graduate of Carleton College (B.A., 1975), The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business (MBA in Finance, 1977) and Southern Methodist University-Perkins School of Theology (M.Th., 1981). In 1982 he was appointed Senior Pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church. Since that time, the Windsor Village membership has grown from 25 to over 14,000, and the average worship attendance has increased from 12 to 6,450. The church includes over 120 ministries which serve the community seven days a week.
Jorge Acevedo loves Jesus Christ and his Church. Touched by the grace of God at seventeen, he was never the same. He is the Lead Pastor at Grace Church, a multi-site United Methodist congregation in Southwest Florida (Cape Coral, Fort Myers Shores and North Fort Myers). This church has grown in its weekend attendance from 400 to over 2600 in the past thirteen years. Grace Church is recognized as having one of the largest and most effective recovery ministries in America with over 700 people involved in weekly recovery ministries. Jorge is a graduate of Asbury College (B.A., 1984) and Asbury Theological Seminary (M.Div., 1987).
Debbie McLeod’s greatest joy is in working with laity in discipleship, evangelism and missions. Debbie is the Senior Pastor of Mandarin UMC in Jacksonville. Until July 2009, she served for seven years as superintendent for the South East District of the Florida Annual Conference, with responsibility for 76 congregations and 92 pastors in Southeast Florida. Prior to that, Debbie served for seven years as Associate Pastor at Christ Church in Fort Lauderdale, a church with 1500 persons in attendance each weekend. Debbie is a graduate of Boston University (B.A., M.A., 1982) and The Divinity School at Duke University (M.Div., 1985).