Lead
Pastor
Gathering
2024

Event Details

  • When | Tuesday, October 22 – Thursday, October 24

  • Where | Chase Oaks Church

    281 Legacy Dr.

    Plano, TX 75023

  • Check In | 4:30 p.m. (LOCAL GOOD COFFEE CO.)

  • 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Check In (LOCAL GOOD COFFEE CO.)

    5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Main Session 1: Ruth Haley Barton

    6:30 p.m. Dinner at Chase Oaks
    (Catered In: CROSSBUCK BBQ)

  • 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Grab your breakfast and eat in session

    9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Main Session 2: Steve Cuss

    10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Table Discussion and Break

    11:00 – 12:00 p.m. Main Session 3: Scott Cormode

    12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch with your Call Group (LOCAL RESTAURANT OPTIONS)

    3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Main Session 4: Michael Wear

    4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Table Discussion

    5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Main Session 5: Jeff Jones

    6:00 p.m. Dinner and Fun (GILLEY'S DALLAS)

  • 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Grab your breakfast and eat in session

    9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Main Session 6: Tod Bolsinger

    10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Table Discussion and Break

    11:00 – 12:00 p.m. Main Session 7: ICN

    12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch and Table Discussion

  • A block of rooms is being held at THE HILTON RICHARDSON DALLAS at discounted rate of $134+ tax (per night).

    The hotel block will be closing on Monday, September 30th.

    You are responsible for your own hotel reservation. So please book your accommodations where you feel most comfortable.

    If you need to extend your stay beyond October 22-24, please reach-out to: Marcia.Bradley@Hilton.com directly.

Speaker BIos

Ruth Haley Barton

Ruth Haley Barton (Doctor of Divinity, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary) is founder of the Transforming Center, a ministry dedicated to strengthening the souls of pastors, Christian leaders and the congregations and organizations they serve. [www.thetransformingcenter.org] A sought-after teacher, retreat leader and trained spiritual director, Ruth is the author of numerous books and articles on the spiritual life.

Educated at Northern Seminary, the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation and Loyola University Chicago Institute for Pastoral Studies, she has served on the pastoral staff of several churches including Willow Creek Community Church and is Professor of Spiritual Transformation at Northern Seminary.

Scott Cormode

Scott Cormode (PhD, Yale University), an ordained Presbyterian minister, is the Hugh De Pree Professor of Leadership Development at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. He is a senior fellow at the Max De Pree Center for Leadership and the Fuller Youth Institute. Cormode founded the Academy of Religious Leadership and the Journal of Religious Leadership.

Steve Cuss

Cuss grew up in Perth, Western Australia, and came to the United States to study theology. He and his wife Lisa have two sons and a daughter. Steve holds a Master of Divinity from Emmanuel Christian Seminary and is a spiritual care professional in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education. Since 2005, Steve has served as Lead Pastor of Discovery Christian Church in Broomfield, Colorado. DCC is an innovative and entrepreneurial church that intentionally welcomes spiritual seekers and skeptics and is passionate about partnerships that break the local and global poverty cycle.

Steve previously served at a megachurch in Las Vegas, as a chaplain at a level-one trauma hospital, on a ranch for struggling teens, and as a youth minister in the Appalachian region. His passion is to help leaders notice, name, and move through the pressures and anxieties inside them and around them to encounter the grace of God in deeper ways and build healthy team cultures. When Steve is not working, you can find him laughing with his family, knee-deep in a trout stream, or trying a guitar he cannot afford at a local music store.

Michael Wear

Michael Wear is the Founder, President and CEO of The Center for Christianity and Public Life, a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution based in the nation's capital with the mission to contend for the credibility of Christian resources in public life, for the public good. For well over a decade, he has served as a trusted resource and advisor for a range of civic leaders on matters of faith and public life, including as a White House and presidential campaign staffer. Michael is a leading voice on building a healthy civic pluralism in twenty-first century America. He has argued that the kind of people we are has much to do with the kind of politics we will have.

Michael previously led Public Square Strategies, a consulting firm he founded that helps religious organizations, political organizations, businesses and others effectively navigate the rapidly changing American religious and political landscape.

Michael’s first book, Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America, offers reflections, analysis and ideas about the role of faith in the Obama years and what it means for today. He has co-authored, or contributed to, several other books, including Compassion and Conviction: The AND Campaign's Guide to Faithful Civic Engagement, with Justin Giboney and Chris Butler. He also writes for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Catapult Magazine, Christianity Today and other publications on faith, politics and culture.

Michael holds an honorary position at the University of Birmingham’s Cadbury Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. Michael and his wife, Melissa, are both proud natives of Buffalo, New York. They now reside in Maryland, where they are raising their beloved daughters, Saoirse and Ilaria.

Tod Bolsinger

Tod Bolsinger (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is the vice president and chief of leadership formation and associate professor of leadership formation at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author of Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory. For seventeen years, he was the senior pastor of San Clemente Presbyterian Church in San Clemente, California. A frequent speaker and consultant, he serves as an executive coach in transformational leadership.

Jeff Jones

Jeff Jones is the Lead Pastor of Chase Oaks Church in the north Dallas area, one church in multiple locations. He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, co-founder of the Center for Church Based Training, and co-author of The Leadership Baton. Jeff has been married to his wife, Christy, for over 30 years. They have two sons, Collin (married to Kenzie), Caleb (married to Samantha), and two granddaughters, Eden and Mabel.

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