Joseph Umidi

Education

• D.Min., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
• M.Div., Acadia Divinity College
• B.A., Kalamazoo College

Courses Taught

• Church and Ministry
• Christian Education
• Pastoral Theology
• Pastoral Care and Counseling
• Church Plant: Models and Methods
• Pulpit Ministry
• Church Conflict and Intervention

Published Chapters and Journal Articles

• "Avoiding Leadership Snares" in Youth Ministries Magazine. Sept/Oct 1995, Sonlife Ministries, Elburn, Illinois, p. 32.
• "Leadership Land Mines" in Regent University School of Divinity Review, Volume 1, pp. 25-37.
• "Great Coaching Commission: Overcoming Key Challenges," Net Results Vol. XXVI, No. 5, October, 2005.
• "Perspectives on the Coaching Movement," Ministries Today, July/August 2006.

Published Books

• "In the Beginning," an article on Reconciliation included in a chapter in text with several authors edited by C. Peter Wagner
• Breathe, Canada, Breathe
• Confirming the Pastoral Call, Kregal, 2000

Manuals

• Discipleship Training Manual
• Pastors-In-Residence Manual
• Strategic Intercession for the 90's. Umidi Publishing
• Avoiding Pastoral Pitfalls, a pastoral ethics leadership manual
• New Testament Cell Life: Models for Impacting Our Times, a small group ministry resource manual
• Ministry By The Book, Living By The Book, 1993, The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc., CBN Publishing, Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Equipping for the End-Time Harvest. Used for Leadership Training International (LTI)

Materials for Pastoral Seminars

• The Ministry of Mentoring
• Effective Leadership
• Leader's Life
• Biblical-Based Counseling
• Family Life and Pastoral Care Ministry Principles
• Avoiding Pastoral Pitfalls
• Finishing Well

Professional Memberships

• Ordination with Baptist Federation of Canada
• Co-founder and Consultant for Canadian Christian Communication, Inc.
• Founding Board Member for Leadership Training International, an international consulting and publishing ministry (1992-1996)
• Founding Board Member for "Operation Breaking Through," an inner city ministry in South Hampton Roads (1996)