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Courageous Pastors

Courage to Lead provides Pastors the opportunity to partner with practitioners…
Our certified coaches know what it’s like to lead a church because they currently DO lead in the church. They experience the same highs, face the same struggles, and have learned to navigate the tough stuff they didn’t teach you in seminary!

Special Resources for the ARC Family

Free Book = Building a Killer Team Without Killing Yourself or Your Team

Everything rises and falls on the team. In fact, the team will help you move further, faster– and accomplish more. Or, it will hinder you.

In this book, Shawn Lovejoy outlines the 5 Pillars of a Killer Team, then provides you with practical steps to building the team you need to move your church or ministry from where you are to where God has called you to be.

Bonus downloads and videos included.

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Free “Killer Team Crash Course” (4-part video training)

Learn how to have meetings that actually matter– and get things done– as well as how to recruit (and keep) the best talent, how to structure in such a way that everyone has more margin while you achieve even more (and burnout less).

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Free Strategy Session

Helping Pastors Escape Drama, Micromanagement, and Burnout by Building a Killer Team!

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Let's Get in Touch

Shawn Lovejoy

Founder + CEO, CourageToLead.com & Courageous Pastors

Shawn has been a successful real estate developer, a church planter, a megachurch pastor, and a CEO of a fast-growing coaching and consulting organization.

Shawn has been coaching executive leaders for two decades in the areas of leadership and organizational health, utilizing the Gears of Growth Framework®.

Shawn is the host of The CourageousPastors Podcast and the author of several books including Measuring Success, Be Mean About the Vision, and Building a Killer Team.

He has been married for 27 years to his best friend Tricia and they have three children: Hannah, Madison, & Paul.

Shawn loves helping leaders like you lead at the next level!