Build, pilot, and launch new ministry ideas.

When it comes to ministry, fresh ideas need faithful structure. This workshop guides teams through a creative process for generating, testing, and implementing new initiatives - using principles of spiritual entrepreneurship and design thinking.

Participants move from brainstorming to prototyping to action planning, discovering how to turn holy imagination into sustainable ministry. Perfect for leadership teams ready to break old patterns and pilot something new.

Deliverable:
An Innovation Canvas with clear prototypes, pilot plans, and evaluation tools for launching your next idea.

Discover shared mission across congregations.

Is it time to start thinking about how to work more closely with other churches? Cooperative parishes can share staff, space, and missional direction—offering congregations both autonomy and community. At their best, they breathe new life into local ministry and free leaders to focus on what matters most.

Using the model of Mission at the Eastward - a cooperative parish established in rural Maine in the 1950s - this retreat explores how collaboration can create vitality, sustainability, and joy in ministry. Together, we’ll help your cluster of churches (or middle governing body) imagine new ways to serve and grow side by side.

Deliverable:
A shared ministry framework and set of next-step recommendations tailored to your context.

Build awareness and healthier communication.

Every church staff has its own rhythm, habits, and holy tensions. The Enneagram helps leaders understand those dynamics by exploring nine patterns of motivation and response. In this retreat, your team will laugh, learn, and recognize themselves and one another in new ways—deepening empathy and strengthening collaboration.

Together we’ll identify what each type brings to the table and how the team can work with greater grace and clarity. It’s part personality map, part spiritual check-up, and all practical.

Deliverable:
Customized team Enneagram profiles, group reflections, and communication tools you can keep using long after the retreat ends.

Equip your church to connect across generations.

The church of tomorrow depends on the relationships we build today. This workshop helps congregations reimagine ministry with children, youth, and adults of all ages - not as separate programs but as one intergenerational community of faith.

Led by our Next-Gen Ministry specialist, Jason Brian Santos, we’ll explore practices that engage younger generations while drawing on the gifts of every age group. Participants leave with renewed vision and practical tools to build belonging across generations.

Deliverable:
A Next-Gen Ministry Roadmap outlining strategies for intergenerational worship, leadership development, and outreach.