A (Re)imagined Way Forward
Sometimes, ministry “the way we’ve always done it” doesn’t work anymore. We help churches, leaders, and denominations imagine – again or for the first time – a vibrant, faithful future and create a path to get there.
The Cornerstone of our process is empathy.
When ministry leaders, whether lay or ordained, embrace empathy, we encounter others in new ways that can powerfully shape ministry. We develop eyes and ears, and hearts and minds to see anew the context in which God has placed us. We use our curiosity to guide small experiments and continually measure against shared values of the congregation and community.
Our Expertise
Young Voices
Engaging young adults
Entrusting youth and young adults in leadership
Integrating children and youth in ministry and worship
Intergenerational Community
Establishing intergenerational community
Establishing intergenerational mentoring
Dementia education
Deep Listening
Deep community listening
Community asset mapping
Determining team and community values, mission, and vision
Measuring what matters
Values & Measurement
What is the difference between counting and measuring?
How to use unique values to measure what matters
Preparing & Launching
Start with a small experiment
Learn to identify roadblocks
Embrace failure
Innovative Ministry
Play, brainstorming, and experimentation
Building good prototypes to test effectiveness and sustainability
Forming good teams for innovative ministry
Curating and sharing stories of transformation
Strategic Leadership
Leading organizational change
Strategic planning
Putting together a ministry plan
Staff development
How to form a nonprofit
Sustaining Care
1:1 mentoring, executive leadership coaching, or spiritual direction
Sustainability and transition planning
Our Process
Team Building & Collaboration
Cohort Formation
Team Formation
Relationship Building
Listening & Mapping
Seeing and hearing from those with who we are called to be in ministry.