Pastors Development

My Development

Despite great strengths, all ministers need to develop personally, in understanding their setting and their world and in the competencies required for ministry. The Centre for Ministry Development aims to assist in lifelong personal development (or to use the secular term, mastery) while also focusing on specific competencies for specific times in your ministry development.

Personal Development

We have people and resources to assist you with your personal development.

Often to begin a development process pastors may wish to utilise diagnostic tools to identify areas of strength and areas for improvement. The most popular diagnostic tools that CMD provides in this area are:

Psychometric profiling – tools which better help you understand your personality preferences or competencies.

360 survey – a tool to invite others in your ministry context to rate and comment on your effectiveness across a range of areas of ministry.. A sample of this report is as follows:

A simple Ministry Development Plan can be used to help you reflect, plan and hold yourself accountable. You can download a version of the plan below or utilise the online tool provided by Ministry Training & Development.

Ministry Development Plan Workbook

Coaching & Mentoring

CMD recognises that implementation is a considerable challenge for many people, hence CMD has employed coaches and mentors who can work with ministers or their staff to assist then in the development and implementation of ministry plans in church life.

This can be done one-to-one or as ‘peer coaching’ in ministry growth clusters.

Be developed as a team leader in either a ministry cluster setting (up to 8 members) or individually.

For more information please contact Peter Mayrick, Acting co-Director on 0411 557 448 or via email at Peter.Mayrick@cmd.training