Author

Stephen Handy is lead pastor of McKendree United Methodist Church in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. He also serves as associate district superintendent of the Urban Cohort District in the Tennessee Western Kentucky Conference of the United Methodist Church. And he is co-author with Dr. Michael Bowie of Dare to Shift: Challenging Leaders to a New Way of Thinking (Market Square Books, 2023).

Ann A. Michel served on the staff of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership from 2005 - 2024 as associate director of the center and later as a senior consultant and editor of Leading Ideas e-newsletter. She also taught at Wesley Theological Seminary in the areas of stewardship and leadership. She is the co-author with Lovett H. Weems Jr. of Generosity, Stewardship, and Abundance: A Transformational Guide to Church Finance (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) available at Cokesbury and Amazon. She is also the author of Synergy: A Leadership Guide for Church Staff and Volunteers (Abingdon, 2017), available at Cokesbury and Amazon.