To be a church leader is to be a shepherd. The four messages in this course reveal, in practical terms, how church leaders can shepherd their congregation in biblically healthy ways. Following each of the four videos, recommended reading will help learners develop in these areas.

Resources prepared by David Clifford and Amy Guibal from Bethlehem College & Seminary.

Matthew J. Hall (PhD, University of Kentucky) is an assistant professor of Church history and the dean of Boyce College. An ordained minister, he serves as an elder at Clifton Baptist Church, and is active in denominational life, having served on the SBC Committee on Resolutions (2014, 2015) and as a Research Fellow for the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. He is co-editor of Essential Evangelicalism: The Enduring Legacy of Carl F.H. Henry (Crossway, 2015).

Aaron Menikoff is Senior Pastor at Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA. June 2008. Aaron completed his Masters of Divinity in Biblical and Theological Studies and his Ph.D. in American Church History from Southern Seminary.

A Detroit native, Brian Davis moved to Philadelphia in 2006 and has since considered it home.  Since conversion, he has desired to help establish a healthy church in an inner-city context which eventually led to his being a part of Risen Christ Fellowship. He has completed a church planting internship at Imago Dei Church in Raleigh, NC which he began at the conclusion of completing the pastoral internship at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in 2013.

John Onwuchekwa serves as a pastor of Cornerstone Church.  A native of Houston, John was born into a Nigerian home where the gospel was cherished deeply and modeled excellently.  After graduating from college, he studied at Dallas Theological Seminary.  He’s served at churches in both Texas and Georgia and in 2015 moved to the West End of Atlanta, GA to help plant Cornerstone Church with his best friends.  He and his wife, Shawndra, have been married since 2007.  They’re eager to see the hope of the gospel restore a sense of family, dignity, and hope to their neighborhood through their local church of ordinary people.