Because of Providence Church’s mission to encourage, guide, and grow followers of Jesus Christ, the elders have committed to additional training for those men and women currently leading at Providence. Leaders are trained through the (H2)³ Leadership Development Program. This program fulfills Paul’s instruction in 2 Timothy 2:2, for the church to entrust the Word to “faithful men who will be able to teach others.”

Training individuals for church leadership is fundamentally different from other organizational leadership. Christ is our ultimate leader, and our leadership goals are to see lives reconciled and transformed by Christ. Consequently, Providence seeks to equip leaders in three areas:

Heart (Godly character)
Head (Biblical wisdom)
Hands (Servanthood)

To train in these three areas, we train leaders in three skills:

Ministry skills
Bible study methods
Theology

A key aspect to the (H2)³ Leadership Development program is one-on-one coaching - a mentoring relationship with an experienced Christian leader who will guide, encourage, and advise. Christ gathered a group of men around Him whom He trained for leadership in the Church. He interacted personally with them, admonished them, and shared with them the knowledge they needed in order to carry on His ministry. We seek to follow Christ’s example in training purposeful leaders at Providence.