Future-Fitting the Church for the Mission Ahead

Learn, Experiment and Thrive in the World to Come

HOW WE HELP

Our world is rapidly changing.
Christian leaders need to develop tomorrow’s tools today.

  • LEARN

    Gain access to comprehensive resources and training for modern ministry

  • EXPERIMENT

    Try out new methods and practices tailored to your church’s specific needs

  • THRIVE

    Execute impactful strategies that drive growth and strengthen community bonds

Congregation-Based Discipleship

Local churches struggle to formulate an approach to helping their members grow to look like Jesus and engage in God's mission.

What if you could help people grow in their faith, connect deeper to your congregation, and identify who God is calling them to serve in the broader community?

With Congregational Discipleship, you'll discover how normal, local churches can go beyond signing up volunteers for ministries to raising up disciples engaged in meaningful mission.

Current Opportunities

  • Coaching for Pastors and Discipleship leaders

Coming Soon

  • Online Cohort for Church Leaders to Learn Together

Matt Lake is the Lead Pastor at First Church in Williamsport, PA, offering a mix of traditional and contemporary worship and hosting the Acts Network for fresh ministry expressions in homes, gyms, and coffee shops.

Janet Durrwachter is the Teaching Pastor at First United Methodist Church in Williamsport, PA, known for her love of learning and distinctive laugh, and she cherishes her husband Ken, their three children and spouses, and a grandchild.

Next Generation Engagement

Generation Alpha is poised to be the largest generation in history. What is your church’s plan to spread the gospel to the next generation, and to support and empower their parents? Learn your congregation can develop new, robust approaches to community engagement, evangelism and discipleship that will ripple across generations.

Current Opportunities

  • Coaching for Pastors and Discipleship leaders

Coming Soon

  • Online Cohort for Church Leaders to Learn Together

Rev. Lora Gravatt, with over 25 years in ministry, is the Pastor of Discipleship at Columbia in Metro-Washington. She leads ministries for all age groups and manages a team supporting 65 preschool staff and over 200 volunteers.

Lora introduced the Church+Home Partnership and transitioned traditional Sunday School to intergenerational small groups. She redefined church and childcare program collaboration, now a potential multi-site strategy.

Incarnational Innovation

You’re stuck. You’ve tried everything you can think of. Don’t Worry! You can learn to be a creative and innovative problem solver. In fact, that’s how God made you!

Incarnational Innovation training will help pastors, churches, and ministries tap into your God-given, Holy-Spirit-Formed ideas that will enable your local congregation to thrive and the Great Commission to prosper.

Current Opportunities

  • Coaching for Pastors and Discipleship leaders

Coming Soon

  • Online Cohort for Church Leaders to Learn Together

Mitch Marcello is the founder and Director of Imago Innovation and serves as Mission Strategist & Innovation Specialist with Fresh Expressions, passionately helping individuals, teams, and churches unlock their creative potential for mission and ministry, holding degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and Drexel University.

Transformational Prayer

Prayer is central to Christian life and can transform individuals, congregations, and communities, yet many leaders struggle with it personally. Often, churches view prayer as a devotional practice rather than a strategic mission. With Transforming Prayer, we provide spaces to experience transformative prayer and offer training to help churches place prayer at the center of their mission.

Current Opportunities

Individual Transforming Prayer Sessions (Contact Cheryl)

Training for Networks and Congregations (Contact Jon)

Cheryl McCarthy has led the Prayer Mobilization of Fresh Expressions NA as Director of The Chapel (originally known as The Ananias Project) since 2014. Cheryl has been instrumental as a prophetic voice and guide to the missional movement. She offers Transforming Prayer Sessions through Renew Center, with 30 years of prophetic and intercessory prayer experience to support pastors and pioneers throughout North America and across the globe. 

The Rev. Jon Davis PhD, an Episcopal priest whose array of experience includes youth ministry, worship and liturgy, church growth and planting, missions, conference leadership and more. He is also co-author of A Trowel and A Sword: Prayer Practices for Those on the Frontlines of the Gospel with Verlon Fosner.

With a lot of Transforming Prayer, Verlon Fosner helped transition an 93-year old church into a network of dinner churches and launched the Dinner Church Collective. He is co-author of A Trowel and A Sword: Prayer Practices for Those on the Frontlines of the Gospel with Jon Davis.