Welcome!  We are glad that you have chosen to visit us. This site will provide you with information about the programs and resources of LMPC.  As a non-profit ministry, LMPC works to encourage the nonviolent transformation of conflict in relationships in homes, workplaces, schools, churches, and throughout our world.  Our programs and resources address ways of resolving conflicts and building healthier relationships in all of these various settings.

Here is an introduction to the pages of our web site:

• LMPC: A Short History briefly relates how the ministry has developed over the years.
  
• Mediation Skills Training Institute for Church Leaders gives information about this renowned LMPC five-day training event.
  
• Here I Stand gives information on the Here I Stand process.  The information includes the three-day Here I Stand  training event that equips pastors to lead the Here I Stand process, the Here I Stand Clinic introduces the new clinic in which participating church leaders go through the Here I Stand process as well as the Charting Self workshop that introduces the Beliefs Chart tool.
  
• Healthy Congregations Facilitator Training Institute gives participants of this event authorization to present the Healthy Congregations workshop for congregations and other groups.
  
• Workshops outlines some of our more popular workshop options (Healthy Congregations, Facilitating Healthy Pastor-Congregation Relations, God's Own Peace, Leadership and Anxiety in the Church:  A Family Systems Perspective and Conflict Transformation Skills for Churches) that can be presented in your church.
  
• Clergy Clinics includes a description of both options for the Clergy Clinic as well as the Advanced Clergy Clinic held for three consecutive days, three times each year in the Chicago area. 
  
• Resource Books and Videos Available lists some of the books on conflict transformation and peacemaking that we recommend and have available to be purchased.  There are also lists of videos that we have available, categorized in different topic series.
  
• Schedule of Events lists a selection of upcoming programs of LMPC.  Registration brochures can be accessed on this page.*
  
• Judicatory Mediators Equipped by LMPC is an article from a past LMPC newsletter about the value of the Mediation Skills Training Institute for Church Leaders within judicatory structures.
  
• LMPC Newsletter highlights the commentary of the current issue of our newsletter.  It also gives information on how to receive our quarterly newsletter.
  
• Current Peace Issues offers resources for peacemakers dealing with issues of the day such as the war between the United States and Iraq.
  
• School and Family Resources offers programs and curricular resources for schools and families.
  
• Personnel introduces you to the LMPC staff.
  
• Frequently Asked Questions provides answers to some of the more common questions raised by visitors to our website.
  
• Contact Us allows you to contact us with your questions and requests for brochures. 
  

* Registration brochures for many of our upcoming training events can be downloaded and printed from the following pages on this website.  Feel free to use the brochure printed from the website as a master for making copies (back to back) for sharing with others - pastors, lay leaders in your church, colleagues in a local clergy association, etc.  You can also save the brochure on your computer and forward the brochure to clergy colleagues and lay leaders via email.