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Thursday, October 22, 2026 • Shady Maple Smorgasbord, East Earl, PA
Thursday, October 22, 2026
Join us for our 2026 Annual Pastors’ Event
You and your pastoral team are invited to a free lunch event. Our keynote speaker, Scott Jackson of Thrive Leadership Foundation, will address burnout in pastoral ministry and share practical tools to help you thrive in life and ministry. We’ll also hear from Pastor Drew Gysi who will address how wise financial stewardship can be a safeguard against burnout. Attorneys from Smith Bukowski LLC will also join us to offer a legal perspective on contributing factors and practical remedies.
Invite another Pastor or Church Leader to join you!
Join us for our 2026 Annual Pastors’ Event
You and your pastoral team are invited to a free lunch event. Our keynote speaker, Scott Jackson of Thrive Leadership Foundation, will address burnout in pastoral ministry and share practical tools to help you find rest, restore balance, and thrive in life and ministry. We’ll also hear from Pastor Drew Gysi who will address how wise financial stewardship can be a safeguard against burnout. Attorneys from Smith Bukowski LLC will also join us to offer a legal perspective on contributing factors and practical remedies.
Invite another Pastor or Church Leader to join you!
Key Event Details
Who?
Pastors!
When?
Thursday
October 22, 2026
11:00AM – 2:30PM
What?
An educational and inspirational event designed for Pastors
How Much?
FREE
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
Scott Jackson – Co-Founder,Thrive Leadership Foundation
Scott Jackson is the CEO & Co-Founder of Thrive Leadership Foundation, where he and his wife, Lynn, help ministry leaders thrive rather than simply survive. He is also the Founder of Free To Lead LLC and a Leadership Consultant with GiANT Worldwide, helping executives build healthy, high-performing teams that avoid dysfunction and burnout.
Before launching Thrive, Scott spent 11 years with Churches In Missions training and leading short-term mission teams, and 22 years serving in pastoral ministry at Warrington Fellowship Church in Pennsylvania. Scott and Lynn are experienced speakers for leader retreats, conferences and churches, and have been married for over 40 years. They have four children and eight grandchildren.
Rev. Drew Gysi – Life Institute
Drew will speak on wise financial stewardship as a safeguard against burnout in pastoral ministry. He’ll cover how wise stewardship can create breathing room during different seasons of ministry so finances don’t add to the pressure pastors already carry.
Smith Bukowski, LLC
In addition to the usual stressors pastors face such as congregants struggling with marriage relationships, doubt or grief, pastors are routinely subject to many silent sources of stress that originate in the law. Attorneys Jim Smith and Nathan Hopkins plan to join us to explore ways the law may contribute to pastor burnout and to provide a unique perspective on effective ways to remedy that.
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
Scott Jackson – Co-Founder,Thrive Leadership Foundation
Scott Jackson is the CEO & Co-Founder of Thrive Leadership Foundation, where he and his wife, Lynn, help ministry leaders thrive rather than simply survive. He is also the Founder of Free To Lead LLC and a Leadership Consultant with GiANT Worldwide, helping executives build healthy, high-performing teams that avoid dysfunction and burnout.
Before launching Thrive, Scott spent 11 years with Churches In Missions training and leading short-term mission teams, and 22 years serving in pastoral ministry at Warrington Fellowship Church in Pennsylvania. Scott and Lynn are experienced speakers for leader retreats, conferences and churches, and have been married for over 40 years. They have four children and eight grandchildren.
Rev. Drew Gysi – Life Institute
Drew will speak on wise financial stewardship as a safeguard against burnout in pastoral ministry. He’ll cover how wise stewardship can create breathing room during different seasons of ministry so finances don’t add to the pressure pastors already carry.
Smith Bukowski, LLC
In addition to the usual stressors pastors face such as congregants struggling with marriage relationships, doubt or grief, pastors are routinely subject to many silent sources of stress that originate in the law. Attorneys Jim Smith and Nathan Hopkins plan to join us to explore ways the law may contribute to pastor burnout and to provide a unique perspective on effective ways to remedy that.
Register
Life Institute has served churches across our nation for over 40 years to help Christians become even better stewards of all their assets. Through stewardship seminars from a Biblical worldview, Life Institute offers practical Biblical stewardship teaching along with personal family guidance. Our team is passionate about seeing churches fully funded for Gospel ministry by helping them develop a healthy culture of Biblical stewardship.
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