Clergy Coaching
Want to bring your best self to the church you serve?
Want to realize your inherent gifts for ministry?
Want to develop those gifts?
Want to take your light out from under a bushel and put it on a lampstand for all the world to see, even you?
We can help you to hone your skills as a pastor, preacher, or administrator!
We can help you find your voice as a thought-leader and prophet!
All this is within reach as you learn to lean into your unique gifts for ministry. You have those gifts and with some coaching you can discover how to bring your best self to this work.
Work with an experienced coach who will share some insights and help you to discover how to be the best pastor you can be. You have what you need. It is all there. Now learn how to find it in you and let it flow in your work.
Want to improve your preaching by working with an experienced pastor who has been in the pulpit for 40 years? Here is the chance to talk to a professional who has preached using the New Revised Common Lectionary weekly for 22 years. Susan can talk about different ways to view a text, and make the passage take on new life.
Susan is also adept at demonstrating how to preach sermon series that bring the stories of faith to life today. Using her book about theme preaching, she can work with you to help you develop your best preaching style.
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“I picked up a copy of Susan Cartmell's book Uncommon Preaching in May 2023 when I met Susan at the Festival of Homiletics. Having preached through a full three years of the lectionary cycle in my first call, I was looking for something new to try. Just a few pages into the book I was sold on giving thematic preaching a go in my congregations. Uncommon Preaching has been my guide since September 2023 and it has been transformational for both the people I serve alongside as well as for me as a preacher. It has been humbling to bear witness to the ways in which lay people are engaging with the themes, making connections between worship and the rest of the week, delighting in hearing less familiar parts of scripture, and staying in the conversation, even when the themes beg to be wrestled with rather than rested in. What started out as a trial for our congregations, moving away from the familiar lectionary toward these new themes, has now become our way of welcoming the Word in our midst and expecting it to change us. The Spirit is surely on the loose!”
- Rev. Bethany Walker, pastor of Faith and Rock Creek Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Wisconsin.