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  • Canoeing the Mountains

  • Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory
  • By: Tod Bolsinger
  • Narrated by: Tom Parks
  • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (619 ratings)

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Canoeing the Mountains

By: Tod Bolsinger
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Explorers Lewis and Clark had to adapt. While they had prepared to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean, instead they found themselves in the Rocky Mountains. You too may feel that you are leading in a cultural context you were not expecting. You may even feel that your training holds you back more often than it carries you along. Drawing from his extensive experience as a pastor and consultant, Tod Bolsinger brings decades of expertise in guiding churches and organizations through uncharted territory. He offers a combination of illuminating insights and practical tools to help you reimagine what effective leadership looks like in our rapidly changing world. If you're going to scale the mountains of ministry, you need to leave behind canoes and find new navigational tools. Listening to this book will set you on the right course to lead with confidence and courage.

©2015 Tod Bolsinger (P)2017 Two Words Publishing, LLC. Recorded and distributed by permission of InterVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA. www.ivpress.com
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An Adventure Awaits

Bolsinger does a great job weaving Scripture, America's pioneering spirit and practical theology. This is a great resource for a church's leadership team. It is loaded with good questions and honest reflections by author.

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Excellent and informative

Lots of information on how to work change in church contexts. It includes a chapter on what to do when there is sabotage to ideas and plans. very solid and thorough book.

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A great book for church leaders

we are living in unprecedented times and Bolsinger lays out a transformational leadership model needed for all church leaders today.

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Yes indeed!

A great read for anyone in leadership in these crazy times! We need to always be adapting

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Thought-provoking and timely.

My husband and I listened to this together on a road trip and enjoyed interacting with the ideas as they relate to our ministry situation.

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Taking the Hill with Grandma

As a 30 year missionary and regional multi-cultural director for a global church i love the emphasis on ministry in the margins. Tod provides excellent adaptive leadership illustrations and honest gut punch stories of the trenches of mans depravity and the transforming Grace of our Savior!

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Challenging and thought provoking

I loved reading this book. It is so challenging and inspiring at the same time. This is a must read for people looking to change the culture of a church or any organization.

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Principles for all leaders.

My mentor gave me this book. This book has stretched my thinking. I’m a entrepreneur and now I believe that God will use each one of us no matter what our talents are.

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absolutely amazing thought-provoking book

Even though the author and I share disagreements on church polity and how things should be handled, the parallel with Lewis and Clark as a road map into expanding the Christian church deserves careful thought and consideration.

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A great read for ministry today.

I cannot recommend this enough as an introductory way to start thinking about ministry in 2018

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