Life-giving.
Redemptive.
Generous.
Joyful.
Inspiring.
Loving.
Passionate.
Adjectives that describe the church of Jesus Christ as it is called to be.
The Passionate Leadership Conference was born out of the desire of several pastors of the Florida Conference for revival and renewal of our United Methodist Church in Florida. If you share such a desire, please join us for a time of inspiration, challenge, renewal, and prayer as we celebrate together our collective passion for our call to leadership in the church.
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
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).
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