The World Has Changed.

Develop the Skills, Strategies and Spiritual Capacities you need for Church Leadership and Mission in the 21st Century.

re•miss•ion•ing

[re-mish-un-ing] verb

The process through which people and congregations re-organize their life around the central principle of God’s mission.

WHAT WE DO

Our world is rapidly changing.
Here’s what Christian leaders struggle to keep up.

  • Skills

    Highly practical resources that empower church leaders to inspire their congregations, reach new people in their neighborhoods and inspire congregations.

  • Strategies

    New ideas and proven methods for helping normal, established congregations and ministries change, experiment and grow without losing their core values.

  • Spiritual Capacities

    Processes and practices for missional formation that support leaders in their own ongoing spiritual development.

Contextual Intelligence

Skill

Why are some churches thrive and others do not? One key can be found in the "secret of Issachar, the ability to “read the signs of the times and know what to do.” This skill is called Contextual Intelligence, and you can learn to develop it.

  • Explore how Contextual Intelligence can change your life in this free introduction.

  • In these days of unprecedented and ongoing change, leaders need the ancient secret to unlocking the keys to navigate complex times. This groundbreaking skill, Contextual Intelligence, is the ongoing ability to accurately diagnose a context and make correct decisions regarding what to do.

    This introductory workshop is perfect for teams and organizations, and will give participants foundation in Contextual Intelligence and its application in your unique context.

  • CQ Cohorts is a six-month training experience with a group of likeminded peers that will help you understand the depths of CQ and put it to work in your ministry. You will explore six phases of the CQ Journey: Unlearning, Immersion, Minding the Gap, Disorientation, Discovery and Embodiment.

Current Offerings

Training opportunities for Spring 2023

Congregation-Based Discipleship

Strategy

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

  • Explore how Contextual Intelligence can change your life in this free introduction.

  • You know your church is called to create disciples, but you struggle to connect your weekend gatherings and ongoing programs to a clear method for helping people become more like Jesus. Cultivate Discipleship is a one day training that helps church leaders develop a clear path of discipleship unique to their congregation.

  • Develop a local church approach to developing disciples on mission with this eight-month cohort. You'll gather weekly online to discuss key elements of how discipleship works and what it should look like in your context.

Incarnational Innovation

Strategy

Does your church need to imagine new possibilities? What if you were able to tap into a Spirit-inspired imagination? What if we used our creative nature to enrich His Church? What if the Church's relationship with God was a playful, joyous one? What if our innovative efforts were rooted in the creation story and the incarnation of Christ? What if we could see, hear, feel and understand people’s needs with deep empathy, just as Christ did?

  • Explore how Contextual Intelligence can change your life in this free introduction.

  • God is a creator, and has designed his people to live a life of creativity and innovation. Churches and their leaders can often get bogged down by the unending tasks of ministry. The New Horizons workshop is a one-day training experience that will help any leader rediscover their creativity, reimagine their ministry and begin to innovate new ways to serve God in their context.

  • Incarnational Innovation, or i2, is a process that will help you think more creatively, take more risks and cultivate a culture of innovation in your faith community. Rooted in Scripture and practice, the i2 Process will teach you how to use "design thinking," an approach to solving complex challenges, in light of the Church's unique vocation to "incarnationally" represent God in the world.

    This cohort learning experience is practical and tangible, designed to help you hone in on your unique opportunities, imagine new possibilities, and innovate solutions. It takes place over eight sessions and is perfect for church leadership teams and regional organizations.

Michael Beck directs The Center for Remissioning and the Fresh Expressions House of Studies at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He is the Cultivator of Fresh Expressions within the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Michael serves as co-pastor of Wildwood and St. Mark’s United Methodist Church with his wife Jill, where they direct addiction recovery programs, a jail ministry, a food pantry, an interracial unity movement, and a network of thirteen fresh expressions that gather in tattoo parlors, dog parks, salons, running tracks, community centers, and burrito joints.

Your Guide

Matt Lake serves as the Lead Pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Williamsport, PA—an urban congregation that consists of a mix of traditional and contemporary worship experiences. First Church also currently hosts a network of fresh expressions of ministry called the Acts Network in which people meet in places such as homes, gyms, and coffee shops.

Your Guides

Janet Durrwachter currently serves as Teaching Pastor at First United Methodist Church in Williamsport, a small city in north central PA.  She loves to learn and is frequently identified by her laugh.  When she counts her blessings, she always includes her husband Ken, three grown children and her three bonus "children" who married into the family, and a grandchild.


Mitch Marcello is founder and Director of Imago Innovation, and is Mission Strategist & Innovation Specialist with Fresh Expressions. Understanding that we are called to create, he is passionate about helping unlock creative potential in individuals, teams, and churches, assisting Christian leaders to apply tools for innovation to mission and ministry. Mitch holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts and Artist Diploma from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Masters Degree in Creativity and Innovation from Drexel University.

Your Guides

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 Sword and a Trowel with Verlon Fosner.

Your Guides

Breakthrough Prayer

Spiritual Capacity

Church ministry is complicated, and overwhelmed leaders can find it difficult to focus and connect with God.

Breakthrough Prayer provides a space for leaders to articulate their hopes, dreams and needs, and a friend to help you bring those to God in prayer.

Breakthrough Prayer is more than a list of prayer requests that are brought before God. It's more than a conversation about ministry and then a commitment to pray for you when the session is through. Instead, it is a profound time of seeking the Lord and giving the Spirit room to speak, spark, heal, reveal, confirm, challenge, renew.

  • If you are feeling stuck…

  • If you are feeling burnt out…

  • If you are needing guidance from the Lord…

Breakthrough Prayer could be the most life-giving experience you've had in a long time.

  • Want to know more about how Breakthrough Prayer could benefit your ministry? Schedule a short call to explore how this opportunity might help you.

  • Discover, the ancient art of Beating the Bounds, often referred to today as Prayer Walking.

  • Does your congregation understand it's mission? Do you pray as if you church depended on it? In this one day workshop, you will discover the how lives are changed when churches devote themselves to missional prayer.

  • Are you struggling to develop a culture of prayer in your church? Do you need guidance on how to deepen your own prayer life? A breakthrough coach will work with you to grow in your own practice and develop a strategy to do the same in your church.

  • Are you in need of Breakthrough Prayer? Learn how you can benefit from a prayer partner in your ministry.

With a lot of breakthrough 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 Sword and a Trowel with Jon Davis.

Incarnational Preaching

SKILL

Explore new approaches for preaching to today’s audiences

Breakthrough Prayer

SPIRITUAL CAPACITY

Discover a personal and congregational approach to prayer that opens doors and changes lives.

Navigating Change

SKILL

Increase your organizations capacity to adapt.

Coming Soon

More Skills, Strategies and Spiritual Capacities you can learn in 2023.