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Jim Singleton

Jim Singleton is Executive Director of Missional Leadership for Leighton Ford Ministries, leveraging years of experience as a senior pastor, seminary professor, mentor, and mentee to help raise up the next generation of missional leadership.

In addition to his part-time role with LFM, Jim serves full-time as Associate Professor of Pastoral Leadership and Evangelism at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he directs Thriving in Ministry, a Lilly Endowment-funded program to help pastors in New England “thrive” in the very difficult practice of ministry in this season.  He has a passion for equipping pastors and congregations to revitalize their approach to ministry.

The son of a Presbyterian minister, Jim brings 30 years of church leadership experience, including serving as senior pastor of churches in Texas, Washington, and most recently, First Presbyterian Church of Colorado Springs, a downtown congregation of 4,000 members.  He has served at Gordon-Conwell since 2012.

Jim first met Leighton Ford in 1989 while working on his doctorate in Boston.  As a senior pastor, he later utilized Kevin Ford’s Transforming Church: A Visioning Roadmap (LINK) process.  He considers Leighton to be “the chiropractor of my soul.”

Jim is an avid fan of baseball history, church history, hiking, and cross-country skiing.  He is married to Sara, who is pastor of Old South Presbyterian in Newburyport, MA.  The have a son, James, and a daughter, Rachel, and three grandchildren.

 

Omar Hamada

A former US Army Special Ops flight Surgeon, Dr. Omar Hamada is a physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology.  He is a healthcare entrepreneur and local church leader.  Dr. Hamada also graduated from seminary and was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister.  His singular driving motivation in all that he does is to change the world so that all may hear about the Gospel of Christ and believe.  Dr. Hamada is starting a mentoring group of Lay People.

Paula Frost

Paula is also an ordained Evangelical  Covenant minister who has served in various local churches, and serves the denomination  as a mentor, coach, and spiritual director.  Paula is married to Herb Frost and together they have a heart for potentially  starting a mentoring group for clergy couples.  They are from Bayport, Minnesota.  

Courtney McLaughlin

Courtney is passionate about helping people find freedom in Christ. She earned both her MDiv and DMin at Fuller Theological Seminary. Her ministry career spans more than two decades, including serving Marin Covenant Church, University Presbyterian Church, Seattle, First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, and currently, First Presbyterian Church, Houston where she serves as the Pastor of Missional Integration. She takes a holistic, integrated approach to coaching serving in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, equipping leaders with tools for their professional and personal lives. She’s affectionately called both ‘word girl’ and ‘RevDocMom’ by her grown daughters, Emma and Camille. Her favorite days include hiking, cycling, or reading in the California sun.

Peter Chao

Peter Chao is founder of Eagles Communications, a unique evangelistic organization reaching pre-believers in East and South East Asia.  Nearly 20 years ago, Peter realized that to “talk about Jesus” in Chinese culture literally means “to talk rubbish.”  Seeking to earn the right to be heard, Peter began teaching leadership development courses for professionals based on moral anchors.  Peter is a longtime member of LFM’s Point Group (Leighton’s original mentoring community) and now leads LFM’s Pelligrino mentoring community for ministry leaders in Asia.

Raphael Anzenberger

Dr. Raphael Anzenberger is a leader of evangelism, apologetics, and mentoring movements in the French-speaking world.  He has led LFM’s R2E mentoring community, mentored over 100 French evangelists in a special training program, and founded the Global Evangelists Forum, where he offered mentor training in French North Africa and East Africa.  Dr. Anzenberger has earned two doctorate degrees from Columbia International University, with one focused on mentoring and the other focused on church planting.  He was honored as the Billy Graham Lausanne Scholar in 2018.

Jack Peebles

Jack Peebles is a seasoned pastor and ministry leader with over 25 years of experience in preaching, discipleship, strategic leadership, and congregational revitalization. He currently serves as the Senior Associate Pastor for Equipping and Missional Alignment at First Presbyterian Church of Orlando, where he leads staff development, strategic planning, and ministry alignment for a 3,400-member congregation. His leadership has helped shape a flourishing staff culture, deepen congregational health, and equip individuals to live out their calling missionally.

Jack previously served as Senior Pastor and Head of Staff at Grace of Christ (formerly First Presbyterian Church) in Yakima, WA, where he guided the church through a revitalization process, a denominational transition, and significant renewal in attendance and engagement. A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and Fuller Theological Seminary (D.Min.), he has also served on national boards and committees. In addition to serving congregations in Florida, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington, he has led numerous mission teams across Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa, giving him sensitivity to diverse perspectives while enhancing his ability to engage with people from a variety of cultural contexts.

Trained in CliftonStrengths, Jack is passionate about helping people discover and leverage their unique, God-given talents in ways that lead to greater joy and fulfillment. His goal is to foster personal transformation as the foundation for congregational transformation, equipping individuals and churches to move from an attractional model of ministry toward a vibrant, missional way of life.

Jack is an avid fan of baseball, hiking, and fly-fishing—especially in his favorite place in the world, Sun Valley, Idaho. He is married to Margaret, who works with Financial Harvest Wealth Advisors. They have two children: Annabelle, a biology major at the University of Central Florida with aspirations of becoming a veterinarian, and David, a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy studying astronautical engineering.

Sarah Breuel

Sarah Breuel served as Chair of the Global Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering in 2016 and has been named to Christianity Today’s “33 Under 33” Christian leaders to watch.  Originally from Brazil, she has served for more than 15 years with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Brazil, Canada, Norway, and Italy, and also served as Director of Revive, a conference for young adults and college students seeking revival across Europe.  Sarah has participated in an LFM mentoring community for more than a decade and now leads LFM’s Revivalists mentoring community for young revivalists in Europe.

 

Steve Abbott

The Rev. Dr. Steve Abbott served for more than 35 years as an Anglican minister, evangelist, and trainer in Australia.  Since transitioning to semi-retirement in 2016, Steve has remained active mentoring younger leaders and providing Everyday Evangelism training for local churches.  In addition to leading LFM’s Refresh mentoring community, Steve serves as a mentor trainer with Leighton Ford Ministries with a special focus on South East Asia.

Caroline Ford

As Partner Engagement Director, Caroline heads up our prayer support connections with our ministry partners.  Caroline has a heart of compassion and care that she came by naturally.  Her father, Neal Jones, was known as one of the most caring pastors in the country when he was the pastor at Columbia Baptist in Falls Church VA.  Caroline graduated from Baylor University with a degree in Psychology and spent her early career in recruiting and Human Resources for a large corporation headquartered in the DC area.

On the side, Caroline owns and runs “Skin In the Game”, a skin company that represents Rodan + Fields Dermatologists where she markets world-renowned products and teaches others to do the same through team building.  That work has provided Caroline with a unique ministry opportunity as she builds relationships around the world.

Caroline helps as a vocalist on the worship team at their home church in Charlotte. She and Kevin enjoy music, exercise, and family.  Most importantly, she loves her two Cavachons (Maisie Grace and MacRae) and their kitty cat, Yuki!

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