You're Invited · Launch Sunday
Sunday, October 4 · 9:30 & 11:00 AM
Experience Church Surprise — Willow Canyon High School
17901 W Lundberg St, Surprise, AZ 85388
Developing Leaders Who Develop Others
International Author · Leadership Coach · Communicator · Pastor
Pastor Dennis J. Cummins specializes in helping leaders develop the people who will carry the mission forward. His approach combines character formation with practical leadership skills: making sound decisions, communicating clear expectations, navigating pressure, and taking ownership. Through direct teaching, thoughtful questions, and honest feedback, he challenges leaders to recognize potential, coach people through growth, and entrust them with meaningful responsibility. His focus reaches beyond individual performance to building a culture where people can lead with confidence and integrity—and equip others to do the same. For business owners, team leaders, and ministry leaders, his aim is lasting impact through people prepared to carry the work further.
Lead to Last is free to download. No email, no sign-up, no strings attached.
Your leadership has a lid. It's you.
At ExperienceChurch.tv, Pastor Dennis J. Cummins preaches and teaches with leaders in mind. Every Sunday is built to help you grow in character, in clarity, and in the way you lead the people God has put in your care.
The people under you can only rise as high as you do. When you grow, your team, your family, and your business have room to grow with you. Sunday is one of the best places to keep expanding your vision and to step out of your comfort zone.
Join us this Sunday, October 4, at 9:30 or 11:00 AM at Willow Canyon High School — 17901 W Lundberg St, Surprise, AZ 85388.
Principles for the work in front of you
Get clear before you get moving.
A busy team can still be unclear about what matters. Learn to examine the problem, define responsibility, and establish direction before adding more activity.
Make decisions when certainty isn’t available.
Some decisions cannot wait for perfect conditions. Explore how preparation, wise counsel, faith, and accountability can help you move responsibly.
Have the conversation you keep postponing.
Unspoken expectations leave people guessing. Unaddressed problems leave others carrying the cost. Develop the courage to communicate clearly and follow through with care.
Build a team that can carry responsibility.
When every decision requires your involvement, growth adds pressure. Think beyond assigning tasks toward developing people with the judgment and authority to own their work.
Lead yourself as carefully as you lead others.
Your habits, relationships, and response to pressure come into the room with you. Give attention to the character and spiritual life that support your public responsibilities.
Build something that can keep growing beyond you.
Who are you preparing for greater responsibility? Leadership development begins long before a handoff. It starts with the people you are equipping today.
Your faith belongs in your leadership.
Following Jesus shapes how you handle responsibility, treat people, make difficult decisions, and respond when you are wrong.
At ExperienceChurch.tv, we believe those questions belong in the conversation about leadership. Whether you own a business, manage a team, or are preparing for greater responsibility, we invite you to explore the School of Leadership.
Launch Sunday · October 4
9:30 & 11:00 AM · Willow Canyon
Experience Church Surprise — Willow Canyon High School · 17901 W Lundberg St, Surprise, AZ 85388
Is God calling you to expand your leadership capacity?
Are you looking to lead, learn, and grow?
The School of Leadership & Personal Growth is open to join!
Every four class sessions, the door opens for new registrants to jump in and be part of this great opportunity to grow and learn.
For approximately $15 a week, you can audit the class, or for approximately $30 a week, you can earn college credits while participating.
Come grow, learn, and continue adding to your mental wisdom library!
Tuesday Evenings at 7:00 PM
- Experience Church — South Hill, WA Campus
- Experience Church — Surprise, AZ Campus
Joining us in Surprise? Once you apply, we’ll send you the Surprise campus location and address details.
Register online today for this amazing class experience! Go to our website and learn more about the program!
We’d love to have you join us!
All sales proceeds go to Hearts for Nepal.
Order in Chaos
By Pastor Dennis J. Cummins
Leadership is not proven in the calm. It is proven in the chaos.
Every leader will face moments when the environment around them is volatile, the people are unstable, and the pressure to react is louder than the wisdom to respond. Most leadership books tell you to manage that chaos. Order in Chaos tells you something different — that chaos is not the interruption of leadership. It is the context of it.
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Drawing from nearly four decades of pastoral ministry, international humanitarian work, and hard-won organizational experience, Dennis J. Cummins builds a framework for leaders who refuse to wait for calm before they lead. From the streets of Nepal to the boardroom, from the emergency room to the elder meeting that changes everything — Order in Chaos is a field manual for leaders who understand that their most important work is done in the most difficult moments.
This is not a book about having all the answers. It is a book about pressing order into chaos — one decision, one standard, one courageous act of leadership at a time.
Leading in the Blast Zone
By Pastor Dennis J. Cummins
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According to one widely cited study, the most stressful job in the world is an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician. Every device they approach could be their last. Every wire they touch carries consequence. Every decision is made under the weight of irreversible outcomes.
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The same study listed pastor as the second most stressful occupation.
Dennis Cummins didn't dismiss it. He started thinking like a bomb technician.
After nearly four decades of pastoral leadership — walking with grieving families through unthinkable tragedy, navigating betrayals, allegations, staff fractures, and the quiet sustained pressure no one warned him about — Dennis came to a sober conclusion: most ministry crises are not problems to solve. They are devices to disarm.
Pressure. Wiring. Triggers. Hidden instability. Blast radius. Every volatile leadership moment carries the same anatomy as a live device — and most leaders walk into it with no training, no protective equipment, and no idea that secondary charges are already in place.
Leading in the Blast Zone is the field manual nobody handed you when you were called. This is not theory. It is the curriculum of the blast zone.
Inside the book you'll learn how to:
- Recognize that you are already in the blast zone — and stop waiting for the chaos to settle before you lead
- Study the device before you touch it, instead of reacting to the surface
- Read the wiring of relationships beneath every conflict
- Spot secondary devices placed to catch you after the first explosion
- Survive the pressure wave without losing your clarity or your edge
- Wear the right equipment — and never lead without your bomb suit
- Protect your family inside the blast zone, not outside it
- Build a blast-resistant team that doesn't fracture under sustained pressure
- Use controlled detonation when delay costs more than confrontation
- Identify hostile personalities before they assemble around you
- Re-enter leadership after the blast — recalibrated, not retired
- Stay soft without becoming naive, and strong without becoming cold
Leadership is not proven by what you avoid. It is revealed by what you survive — and whether you are still standing when the dust settles.
For pastors, elders, ministry leaders, business owners, coaches, and anyone who carries responsibility in environments where the ground keeps shifting. Plain English. Pastoral voice. Scripture rooted (NLT). The field guide Dennis Cummins wishes someone had handed him forty years ago.
When the dust settles, only one question matters. Are you still standing?
Meet Pastor Dennis J. Cummins
Dennis J. Cummins is the lead pastor of ExperienceChurch.tv and author of Order in Chaos: Why Leadership Is More Than Influence.
Drawing on his work leading churches, developing leaders, and serving communities in Nepal, he brings a direct, practical perspective to the responsibilities leaders carry.
“The goal of leadership was never to be indispensable. The goal was always to be reproducible.”
— Dennis J. Cummins, Order in Chaos
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Bhaktapur, Nepal — On Sunday, August 23, the Hearts for Nepal Leadership Conference 2026 filled German Homes in Bhaktapur with a record attendance of more than 500 leaders — the largest gathering in the conference's history.
Echoed Across Nepal
Media outlets from across Nepal covered the conference and the book launch, and their coverage echoed the same conviction: this message matters for Nepal, right now. Reporters highlighted the book's call for young Nepalis to develop a deeper understanding of leadership, and its challenge to leaders to regularly assess the impact of their actions on their institutions, their communities, and their society.
What you lead matters. So does the leader you’re becoming.
Find out more about the School of Leadership and how to get involved.
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