Lombard Mennonite Peace Center

What Lombard Mennonite Peace Center does

Lombard Mennonite Peace Center (LMPC) is a 40-year-old faith-based nonprofit organization founded in 1983 and headquartered in Lombard, Illinois. The organization provides biblical peacemaking, conflict transformation, and family systems theory training to churches, clergy, and church leaders across the United States. Its core offerings include the multi-day Mediation Skills Training Institute (MSTI, $850), the Leadership Development Through Family Systems (LDTFS) program (formerly Clergy Clinic), an Advanced Clergy Clinic, and single-day workshops such as Conflict Transformation Skills ($99) and Restorative Conversations. LMPC also delivers direct mediation and consultation services including full congregational mediation, small group mediation, and telephone coaching, priced at $100-$300/hour.

LMPC operates on a service-based revenue model combining training workshop fees, professional consultation and mediation fees, tax-deductible donations, and book sales. The organization has no proprietary technology platform and relies on standard tools: Zoom for online training delivery and Neon CRM for event registration and donor management. Its go-to-market is community-led, event-driven, and direct-to-consumer, leveraging 40-year-old church networks, denominational partnerships, and a roughly 2,000-clergy alumni network built through the Clergy Clinic and Advanced Clergy Clinic programs. Distribution channels include direct website registration, contracted in-house events with churches and judicatories, online Zoom training, and a strategic partnership with Yale Divinity School's Youth Ministry Institute.

The organization is governed by a board of directors and led by Executive Director Jay Wittmeyer, who returned to the role on January 15, 2020. LMPC maintains a small core team of approximately five to seven staff and board members, supplemented by interns from DePaul University. The organization is affiliated with Mennonite Church USA and integrates Bowen Family Systems Theory with Christian peacemaking theology, creating a differentiated positioning relative to secular conflict resolution providers.

Name

Lombard Mennonite Peace Center

Legal name

Lombard Mennonite Peace Center

Website

https://lmpeacecenter.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Lombard Mennonite Peace Center is a 40-year-old Lombard, Illinois nonprofit that provides biblical conflict transformation, mediation, and family systems training to churches, clergy, and church leaders across the United States through workshops, multi-day institutes, and direct mediation services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Faith-Based Conflict Resolution and Leadership Training

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based Humanitarian Aid & Relief Ministries (BPAGAJAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Interfaith & Ecumenical Councils and Dialogue Organizations (BPAGAJAJ)

Keywords

• Church conflict mediation
• Family systems training
• Congregational reconciliation services
• Clergy leadership development
• Faith based peacemaking

Headquarters

HQ city

Lombard

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Training Workshop Fees: Revenue from registration fees for workshops including Conflict Transformation Skills ($99), Strengthening the Body of Christ ($99), and Mediation Skills Training Institute ($850). Fees include training materials and manuals.
2. Consultation and Mediation Services: Hourly fees for on-site consultation and mediation services including $200/hour for on-site time, $100/hour for off-site time, and travel expenses. Services include full congregational mediation, smaller group mediation, and telephone coaching.
3. Donations and Peace Fund: Tax-deductible donations support the Peace Fund which provides partial financial assistance for training tuition. The organization receives support from donors who believe in their peacemaking ministry.
4. Book Sales: The organization sells books from their recommended reading list through their online store at 50% discount, including books on conflict transformation, church management, family systems theory, and peacemaking theology.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Lombard Mennonite Peace Center (LMPC) delivers faith-based peacemaking training and conflict transformation services for churches, clergy, and faith-based organizations. Its core offerings are multi-day intensive programs (Mediation Skills Training Institute, Leadership Development Through Family Systems, Advanced Clergy Clinic), single-day and half-day workshops (Conflict Transformation Skills, Restorative Conversations, Strengthening the Body of Christ, P5, FSP Facilitator Training), and direct mediation/consultation services (full congregational mediation, smaller group mediation, telephone coaching). All offerings are grounded in biblical reconciliation principles integrated with Bowen Family Systems Theory and delivered in-person or via Zoom.

Product overview

Lombard Mennonite Peace Center (LMPC) offers a comprehensive suite of peacemaking and conflict transformation services for churches and church leaders. The core offerings include multi-day training programs (Mediation Skills Training Institute, Leadership Development Through Family Systems, Advanced Clergy Clinic) and single-day/half-day workshops (Conflict Transformation Skills, Restorative Conversations, Strengthening the Body of Christ, P5). LMPC also provides direct mediation and consultation services ranging from full congregational mediation processes to telephone coaching. Programs are grounded in Bowen Family Systems Theory and biblical reconciliation principles. The organization maintains a recommended reading resource library and publishes the Finer Points Blog. Training is available through scheduled public events, contracted in-house events, and quarterly virtual programs like Clergy Roundtable and Family of Origin Group Coaching.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mediation Skills Training Institute (MSTI)

Quantifiable outcome

• Trained nearly 2,000 clergy through Clergy Clinic and Advanced Clergy Clinic programs
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Yale Divinity SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLMPC has partnered with Yale Divinity School's Youth Ministry Institute to provide educational resources and instructional videos about peacemaking. This partnership enables broader distribution of LMPC's peacemaking content to youth ministry students and professionals.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Pax Christi USA: Catholic peace movement offering workshops and resources on nonviolence and conflict transformation; partial overlap with LMPC's peacebuilding training niche but anchored in Catholic rather than Anabaptist theology.

Others

• Habitat for Humanity International: High-profile faith-based nonprofit founded by a Mennonite (Millard Fuller) and rooted in the same Anabaptist/Christian mission ethos; not a training peer, but comparable as a faith-based ministry brand leveraging church networks.
• Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS): Mennonite/Anabaptist seminary providing theological education that shares LMPC's denominational base and peace-theology framing; potential pipeline for future clergy customers and theological credibility.
• Bowen Center for the Study of the Family: Source institution for the Bowen Family Systems Theory that underpins LMPC's methodology; not a direct competitor but a foundational thought partner and training reference for LMPC's curriculum.
• Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University: Graduate academic program in conflict transformation that feeds LMPC's talent and referral pipeline (notably a Peace Fund recipient cited). Comparable on theory and pedagogy, though academic rather than ministry-delivered.

Direct peers

• Peacemaker Ministries: Faith-based ministry offering biblical peacemaking and conflict resolution training, coaching, and mediation resources for churches and Christian leaders — directly competing with LMPC in the same theological framework and customer segment.
• Church Initiative: Provides church-based conflict resolution resources and training (e.g., 'The Peacemaker Church Kit'), directly overlapping LMPC's training catalog and US church customer base.

Broad incumbents

• Church of the Brethren: Historic peace church denomination that was Executive Director Jay Wittmeyer's prior employer (11 years) and shares Anabaptist/Mennonite-adjacent peace theology; potential overlapping customer base of Brethren clergy.
• Mennonite Central Committee (MCC): Larger Mennonite-affiliated peace, relief, and development organization with a much broader international footprint; overlaps with LMPC on Anabaptist peace theology and peacebuilding training pipelines.
• National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC): Established conflict resolution and mediation training provider offering general mediation training; broader and more secular than LMPC, but competes for similar training budgets among US organizations and faith communities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lm-peace-center

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

Investments

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