There are seasons in leadership when you need expertise outside your own lane.
A financial coach. A counselor. A speaker coach. A consultant. A ministry resource.
Someone who understands the world you're leading in.
Trusted Connections is our growing network of people and organizations we know, trust, and are glad to introduce you to.
Part of not leading alone is knowing who to call.
For more than 25 years in ministry, you've built relationships with leaders, experts, ministries, and organizations across many different spaces.
MCN doesn't need to become all of those things.
We can connect women to them.
MCN Trusted Connections
Lisa J Allen
Lisa J. Allen helps women move from self-doubt toward greater confidence, clarity, and self-leadership. A board-certified Christian coach, speaker, and author of Your Confidence Compass, Lisa helps women recognize their God-given calling and lead with greater confidence in their current season.
Best for: Confidence • Self-leadership • Calling and purpose
Confidence + Self-Leadership
Bonni Mace
Bonni helps ministry leaders pay attention to the inner life that shapes their outer leadership. Through spiritual formation coaching, retreats, and resources, she helps leaders grow in awareness and intentionality, develop healthier rhythms, and become more deeply formed in the likeness of Jesus.
BonniMace.com
bonnimace.com/reflectionquestions
Best for: Spiritual formation • Healthy leadership rhythms • Soul care
Spiritual Formation + Enneagram Coach
Director of Development at Pillar Seminary
Lauren Lowery
Pillar Seminary equips church leaders, ministry workers, and everyday believers with accessible theological education designed for real-world ministry. Their contextualized approach helps students grow in biblical fluency while learning to apply what they’re learning in the places God has called them to serve.
Best for: Theological education • Biblical fluency • Ministry leadership
Faith + Financial Confidence + Foresight
Dr. Brandy Baxter
Dr. Brandy Baxter helps individuals, families, and leaders make wise decisions about their money and their future with greater clarity and confidence. Bringing together faith, finance, and foresight, she helps people move beyond uncertainty and build practical strategies that align their resources with the life they are called to lead.
Best for: Financial confidence • Future planning • Faith and finances
MCN Trusted Connections
Rachael Wade
Rachael Wade helps people, teams, churches, and communities move from where they are toward the flourishing God is calling them to. Through Olive Us, she creates spaces and resources that help people of faith root deeply, grow intentionally, and flourish together in community.
rachaelrwade.com
oliveus.net
Olive Us Podcast
Best for: Community • Spiritual growth • Flourishing
Founder Olive Us -
Community + Flourishing
Erin Pickering
Erin Pickering helps leaders and teams thrive. As a certified Working Genius Facilitator and Consultant, she gives churches and organizations practical tools to understand their strengths, collaborate without friction, and build healthy cultures where people flourish. As Director of Conference Operations & Strategic Partnerships for Build Groups — a consulting firm for churches — she turns big vision into flawless execution. She's also an entrepreneur and artist
Erin Pickering
Best for: Working Genius training • Team development • Travel planning
Working Genius Coach/Faciliator
Director of Conference Operations & Strategic Partnerships (Build Groups)
Founder of RemoteXP & Executive Pastor Coach
Church Operations + Executive Leadership
Matt Mashburn
Matt Mashburn helps pastors and church leadership teams bring greater clarity, strategy, and health to the operational side of ministry. Through RemoteXP, he provides executive pastor services and coaching that help churches strengthen systems, streamline operations, and lead their teams more effectively.
Best for: Church operations • Executive leadership • Strategy and systems
Care Ministry + Mental Health
Laura Howe
Laura Howe and Hope Made Strong equip pastors, ministry leaders, and churches to care well for the people in their communities. Through practical tools, training, and resources, they help churches build sustainable care ministries that support mental health, strengthen relationships, and cultivate belonging, purpose, and hope.
https://www.hopemadestrong.org/
The Care Ministry Podcast
Care Ministry Cohort
Church Mental Health Summit
Best for: Care ministry • Church mental health • Sustainable care systems
Interested in Becoming a Trusted Connection?
Do you serve women in ministry leadership?
We're intentionally building relationships with trusted experts, organizations, and resources to serve women in the Ministry Chick Network.
A connection means something to us.
The people and organizations featured here aren't listed simply because they asked to be.
We look for people who share our commitment to serving leaders well, demonstrate expertise in their area, and are people we feel comfortable introducing to the women in our community.
And I'd include a short disclosure wherever appropriate:
Some Trusted Connections may have a financial relationship with Ministry Chick Network. When that's the case, we'll tell you. Our relationships never determine who we trust or recommend.