Coordination Program
L e a d e r s h i p
The coordination program is funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. and administered by the Center for Congregations.
Bonnie Marden
Coordination Program Director
Improving clergy financial well-being and expanding the ways we talk about money are my energizing passions. My background in economics, program administration, stewardship and finances offers gifts and tools for visionary leadership, team building, stewardship of all God’s resources and organizational development processes. Specializing in financial stewardship, conflict/mediation and change management, I embrace opportunities to work in diverse contexts and ministries to strengthen personal and congregational stewardship, including communications, donor cultivation and audit/review processes so that financial integrity and accountability inspire generosity.
Center for Congregations
Rev. Timothy Shapiro, President
Tim is the Indianapolis Center's president. He began serving the Center in 2003 after 18 years in pastoral ministry. For 14 years, Tim served Westminster Presbyterian Church in Xenia, Ohio. Prior to his pastorate at Westminster, he was pastor of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Logansport, Indiana. He holds degrees from Purdue University and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Tim's interest in how congregations learn to do new things is represented in his book How Your Congregation Learns. After his extensive work on the Center's Sacred Space initiative, Tim co-authored the book Holy Places: Matching Sacred Space with Mission and Message.
Center for Congregations
Susan Weber,
Director of the Evaluation & Communications Project
Susan directs the Evaluation Project for the Religion Division of Lilly Endowment Inc. In that capacity she works directly with grantees in helping them create evaluation plans and processes for the purpose of improving and sustaining their grant programs. She spent several years as the Center's director of evaluation and congregational learning, as well as a resource consultant to congregations. Prior to her work at the Center, she served the Archdiocese of Indianapolis as coordinator of boards of education, Office of Catholic Education. She has served as an independent consultant and group facilitator for dioceses, churches, religious communities, and schools nationwide. Sue has degrees from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College (B.S., Humanities) and Indiana University, Bloomington (M.S., Adult Education) and is professionally certified as a group facilitator through Indiana University. She is certified through Case Western University in the use of Appreciative Inquiry both in evaluation and in strategic planning.
