We are thrilled to partner with The Leland Center and the Church at Clarendon for our US Leaders Day event. Located just outside of Washington DC with convenient access to parking and the metro, this training event is an excellent way to bring a team for a day of learning, discussion, and networking.

The Church at Clarendon is located at: 1210 N Highland St, Arlington, VA 22201.

Leaders Day Schedule

9:30-10am- Arrive & Settle In

10-10:30am- Framing the Day Together

10:30-11am- Breathing New Life Into Tired Churches- Josh Hayden

11-11:45am- Workshop Groups

11:45-12pm- Stories from the Ground

12-1pm- Lunch on the Town

1-1:30pm- Regroup, Reflect, Refocus Together

1:30-2pm- Turning Sunday Attenders into Everyday Disciples- Eun Strawser

2-2:45pm- Workshop Groups

2:45-3pm- Stories from the Ground & Next Steps

  • Eun K. Strawser (she/her) is the co-vocational lead pastor of Ma Ke Alo o (which means "Presence" in Hawaiian), non-denominational missional communities multiplying in Honolulu, HI, a community physician at Ke Ola Pono, and an executive board member of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) with 20 years in both local and trans-local church planting work at executive levels. Prior to transitioning to Hawaii, she served as adjunct professor of medicine at the Philadelphia College of Medicine and of African Studies at her alma mater the University of Pennsylvania (where she and her husband served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship) after finishing her Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Dar es Salaam. She is the author of Centering Discipleship: A Pathway for Multiplying Spectators into Mature Disciples (IVP) and of upcoming book You Were Never Meant To Lead Alone: The Power of Sharing Leadership (IVP 2025) . She and Steve have three, seriously, amazing children.

    Rev. Dr. Strawser has nearly two decades of experience in centering discipleship and making mature missional disciples.  She has developed lay counseling curriculum, discipleship pathways for children's ministries, and discipleship pathways utilized both in established church and church-planting contexts.  While her heart is in locally-rooted kingdom work, she also consults and coaches pastors, planters and market-place/community leaders world-wide in developing discipleship pathways and structuring their context to center discipleship.

  • Josh Hayden (he/him) finds great joy in empowering organizations to live on mission in order to live out their mission.  Josh has over 20 years in organizational leadership and has worked and led in non-profit, church plant, and established church settings.  Josh studied leadership and organizational change while writing Creative Destruction: Towards a Theology of Institutions to receive a doctorate from Duke Divinity School.  He is also the author of Sacred Hope, a book designed to foster conversation around the role of hope in our lives. His newest book on Remissioning (IVP) will be out 2024! He is a sought out voice of leadership, both in the church, ecumenically-wide denominations, seminaries, national network boards and local community boards.  He is married to his best friend and high school sweetheart, Shéy, and they have two sons, Rowan and Eli, who are the best part of their every day. 

    Rev. Dr. Hayden has a unique focus on helping remission established churches and organizations so that they can navigate change with purpose. Josh has been the director and developer of the Remissioning Collective (neé Learning Cohort), a 30 week learning experience that brings 5-8 established church pastors and intentional interim pastors to journey together on the courageous and innovative work of remissioning the Church since 2018.  In addition, he has developed countless tools, policies and protocols that systematically and practically help Church Leadership navigate change well.