A NEXT CHURCH COHORT – BEGINS FALL 2025
LEADING MINISTRIES TOWARD IMPACT
Are you tired of propping up ministries that no longer serve the needs of your community? You are not alone in your deep longing for something more meaningful – more impactful. But how do you honestly evaluate and lead so ministries can grow and thrive in healthy soil?
The traditional metrics of budgets, membership, and attendance are no longer adequate to evaluate success in ministry. Instead of searching for new ways of measuring, we revert to what we know, perpetuating the status quo. But if what we are doing matters, we must develop meaningful ways to measure effectiveness. We need to change the entire culture of assessment.
Leading that kind of culture change takes resolve, tenacity, and quality leadership.
This cohort is designed to unpack the concepts of Cultivated Ministry, offer practical ways to begin shifting the culture of assessment in your own context, and support leadership growth and development. You know your context better than anyone else, so our coaches will work with you to pair content with the opportunity to contextualize learning and its implications for your leadership. They are trained to hold space as participants engage themselves, each other, the content, and what arises in the space. Coaches encourage participants to tap into their own strengths and resources to create meaningful change, both individually and communally.
What You Will Receive:
Leadership Development
Knowing how to lead and leading through challenges and opportunities are two different things. This cohort is designed to support leadership growth and development.
Practical Tools
Participants will gain practical tools to unpack the needs of your community, honestly assess your resources, and imagine ways ministries can be more effective for those we serve.
SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY
Build connections with others who understand the challenges and gifts of leading change—and create a support system that sustains you for the long haul.
Cohort Details
- Participants will learn alongside a cohort of peers, receive both group and individual coaching from a highly trained and certified coaches.
- 90-minute group sessions will include presentations of Cultivated Ministry concepts, group coaching, and breakout conversations.
- Additionally, every participant will receive 3 individual coaching sessions to support leadership and work through challenges during implementation.
- This cohort will meet on Wednesdays during the fall from 11:00am-12:30pm ET (8:00-9:30am PT) on September 10 & 24, October 8 & 22, and November 5. The group will reconvene on January 21 for a final session to connect as concepts are applied.
- Spaces are limited to keep the cohort experience small.
- Cost is $799 per participant.
Time
11:00am-12:30pm ET
(8:00-9:30am PT)
Dates
September 10, 24
October 8, 22
November 5
January 21
Coaching
Cost
About the Sessions
Beginning with The Why
In the first session we will consider the need for new ways of assessment counter to the traditional metrics. By grounding ourselves in a collective why, communities gain clarity around why they develop programs, invest in different missions. and create spaces of hospitality and worship. We will explore how you lead from individual motivations dominating decision making to a collective understanding of the why.
Moving to Impact
How do you know if your programs or ministries are making an impact? Traditional models of assessment aren’t designed to look beyond dollars and numbers. In this session we will unpack four categories that can be assessed and how connecting your why do these categories leads to impact. We will discuss how you lead through this process that begins to shift how groups think about assessment.
Collective Action
Ministries, programs and initiatives are often championed by 1-2 key leaders, while lacking broader communal buy-in. Instead of one person having a vision and determining the direction, we will discuss how to lead individuals to form a collective understanding and build mutual accountability from the very beginning of a process.
Pushing Against the Status Quo
Leading your community to a posture of learning is a key ingredient for moving from assumptions to assessing impact and growth. Our learning doesn’t justify maintaining the status quo, but instead serves as a springboard for future transformation and growth. Uncover how learning is essential for group growth, but personal leadership growth as well.
The Power of Story
Storytelling has the power to shape culture, interpret and understand history, and move us towards transformation and justice. Stories are critical to how we engage our communities, both inside and outside our walls. In this session, we will examine the power of story and how to lead through the learning of stories and their impact on our ways of being.
Community of Learning
The cohort will gather together several weeks after the last session to share learnings as they lead culture shifts, offer support through challenges, and celebrate what is going well as they implement these practice tools in context.
Leadership
Yena Hwang
Coach
Chip Low
Coach
Questions
For questions about the coaching cohort, contact Jen James.
