Courageously Loving Leaders And Their Churches…
…so that they reproduce belonging, joy and love, fulfill The Great Commission and make the Love of Jesus unavoidable in their own communities.
Welcome!
We built this website for you.
We hope that as you taste and see the mission we are committed to, you can sense how God is at work, and that you enjoy discovering what we are doing in the Kingdom!
What Drives
Our Mission?
People are leaving their faith.
From 2009-2019, polls made via phone call by the Pew Research Center show that:
12% of our population has stopped identifying as Christian.
9% of our population has started identifying as unaffiliated with any religion.
Younger generations are leaving their faith at a faster rate than older generations.
Younger generations consider themselves believers is at increasingly lower percentages.
Younger generations attend church monthly or more at increasingly lower percentages.
Full Pew Research Center Article here.
Our Society is growing morally darker.
According to this study by Gallup, it is unanimous - over the last 20 years, popular opinion says that our society is moving in a negative moral direction.
Full Gallup Article here.
Leaders Are Struggling.
38% of pastors are thinking of quitting the ministry, 51% from mainline denominations. (November 29, 2021) Of the 38%, almost half (46%) are under age 45. 50% of pastors are age 56 and above. 2022 stats reveal a rise from 38% to 42%.
80% believe pastoral ministry has negatively affected their families. Many pastor's children do not attend church now because of what the church has done to their parents.
90% of pastors report the ministry was completely different than what they thought it would be like before they entered the ministry.
53% of pastors report that the seminary did not prepare them for the ministry.
More Statistics here.
In this midst of the challenges we are facing, we know that there is good news and hope.
His name is Jesus.
Our mission is to courageously love leaders and their churches. We believe that all of the leader development and congregational training that we do is a context for believers to be transformed by Jesus’s love for them.
We firmly believe that, “what you win them with is what you win them to,” so we want Jesus and his love for us at the core of everything we do.
Here are some of our teams current offerings to churches and leaders:
What Does It Look Like?
Relationships First
We lead with relationships and not tools. We believe that way of being trumps way of doing every single time.
Godly Partnerships
All of our work is funded by the donations of financial partners who want to see God’s Kingdom advanced.
As a result of their generosity, all of this is possible.
Learning by Doing
We have done our research and the way that adults learn best is by doing!
A webinar can’t help us the way that hands on training can, so we have created trainings and workshops where people actively participate and be at the core of their own discovery process!
These are the contexts that allow for the most life change!
God Does the Work
Our joy is to discover what God has already done and join in!
We have found that the clues and cues regarding who we are most compassionate for and what God has entrusted us to give them are discoverable in the unique history God has given each of us!
Our team has been on the cutting edge of mobilizing churches into mission for the last 30+ years!
More about our team here!
How Can You Join Us?
If learning about this mission is stirring your heart and God is leading you to be a part of it, you can join us by becoming a member of our financial support team. All of the work that we do comes from the generosity and missionality of those who are partnered with us.
We believe that becoming a financial partner means that you are just as invested in this work as we are! Paul puts it this way in Philippians 4:
Not that I seek the gift itself, but I do seek the profit which increases to your [heavenly] account [the blessing which is accumulating for you].