Thought-provoking Instruction

Speaker Information: Gil Rendle

Gil Rendle's Presentation Materials to YAC

Friday Morning Presentation: 
   "Brother Van, Saint Ansgar and the New United Methodist Mission Field"
Friday Afternoon Presentation:
   "What Does Change Look Like in a Fast Changing Culture?"
Saturday Morning Presentation:
   "Building an Annual Conference Response to the Mission Field"

Gil Rendle serves as Senior Consultant with the Texas Methodist Foundation in Austin, Texas and as an independent consultant working with issues of change and leadership in denominations and large churches.

Prior to this position he served the Alban Institute as an author, seminar leader and senior consultant for twelve years. An ordained United Methodist minister, Gil served as senior pastor of two urban congregations in Pennsylvania for sixteen years and as a denominational consultant for The United Methodist Church for nine years.

Gil graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, did his seminary training at Boston University School of Theology and earned a Ph.D. in Psychoeducational Processes from Temple University in Philadelphia.

Gil has an extensive background in organizational development, group and systems theory, and leadership development. He works with leaders on planning, staff and leadership development, and issues of change. He is well known for his work with middle judicatory and national denominational offices and staff as they wrestle with denominational and congregational change.

In training workshops and conferences, Gil has led numerous large and small groups in practical learning that directly impact participants’ decisions and practice in their leadership roles.

He is the author of five books, a contributor to four books, and the author of numerous articles and monographs. Gil is a resident of Pennsylvania where he lives with his wife, Lynne. They have two sons, who with their wives, have provided four grandchildren.