Leading Intercultural Ministries Webinar
Monday, July 22 @ 5PM Pacific Time via Zoom
A dialogue between Dr. Brian Leander, BST’s Director of Intercultural Leadership, and Rev. Dr. Angie Barker Jackson, VP Institutional Advancement. Together, they will review the program and address your questions.
Lead with Inclusion: Graduate Certificate for Faith & Community Leaders
Become a confident leader in diverse settings. This program equips faith-based ministry and community leaders with the skills to champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in their organizations.
What you’ll gain:
- Practical tools to navigate cultural differences and build unity.
- Deeper understanding of inclusive leadership principles.
- Strategies to foster respect and shared leadership across diverse groups.
- Experience in creating impactful intercultural ministries.
Ideal for: Leaders passionate about building bridges and reflecting the diverse reality of our communities.
Program Highlights:
- 9-month, cohort-based learning experience.
- Focus on real-world application through a capstone project.
- Join a network of 15 like-minded leaders each year.
Grow your ability to lead thriving, inclusive organizations.
Your Three Phase Leadership Development Path
A transformative journey that equips you to lead with purpose, cultural intelligence, and organizational impact.
Phase 1: Personal Development
This foundational phase focuses on your growth as a whole person and emerging leader. You’ll engage in a transformative process that builds self-awareness, clarifies your personal and vocational goals, and cultivates habits of continuous learning. Emphasizing critical thinking, cultural intelligence, communication, and decision-making, this phase equips you to lead from a place of authenticity, resilience, and purpose—laying the groundwork for effective intercultural leadership.
Phase 2: Leadership Development
In this phase, you’ll deepen your leadership capacity by applying proven principles to expand your leadership capital—the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for thriving in formal leadership roles. Rooted in an intercultural framework, this process equips you to lead with greater self-awareness, cultural intelligence, and confidence. Through practical experiences, reflective learning, and skill-building, you’ll develop the tools needed to navigate complexity, build trust across differences, and lead with integrity and vision in diverse contexts.
Phase 3: Organizational Leadership
In this culminating phase, you’ll focus on leading within and across organizations with strategic insight and cultural responsiveness. Building on your personal and leadership development, you’ll learn to assess organizational culture, foster inclusive environments, and implement systems that support equity and effectiveness. This phase empowers you to lead change, develop others, and guide organizations toward mission-aligned, interculturally competent practices.
Cost and Credit
- 6 credit hours
- Certificate at the end
- Tuition $4500
- Scholarships available
Faculty
- Rev. Dr. A Brian Leander
- Rev. Dr. Marie Onwubuariri
- Rev. Dr. Valerie Miles-Tribble
One of the Most Interculturally Diverse Seminaries in the Country
Since our founding 150 years ago, the core values of soul freedom, service leadership, social justice, public witness, religious liberty, and the centrality of the Word (written and spoken) still guide and sustain BST to this day. These Jesus-centered values, rooted in our inclusive inter-cultural heritage, have made BST an attractive school for students of many faith and denominational affiliations.
Here you will truly enter a spiritual “world-house” of teaching and learning, with a world-class faculty and students from every habitable continent on earth.
