THE GROWING TOGETHER COHORT IS A ROBUST MULTI-YEAR LEARNING JOURNEY TO BUILD THRIVING SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCHES FOR ALL GENERATIONS, WHILE SPECIFICALLY REACHING, LOVING, AND EMPOWERING YOUNGER GENERATIONS BETTER.
Registration Deadline: March 29, 2024
Next Live Interest Webinars: Mar 18
Zoom Link for March 18 @ 4:00PM PT:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85087964560
Your church is growing older and you wish there was more energy and vitality.
Your church doesn’t have the young people it once did, and you don’t know what has changed and why your church isn’t connecting anymore.
The pandemic has changed the way you have always done church, and you don’t know where to go next.
Your church’s momentum has stalled out and you feel stuck.
You keep trying things, but don’t really know if you are doing the right things.
Your church is in a community, but isn’t connecting with the community, especially with the young people.
You want to see your church becoming the living, breathing, expression of Jesus to the world.
You are not alone. All churches are wrestling with these same questions, hopes, and dreams.
This 10-month digital learning journey will help unleash the potential of today’s young people, while building a thriving community for all generations.
The cohort uses the six core commitments from the Fuller Youth Institute’s Growing Young research, and applies them to the Seventh-day Adventist Church context, resulting in an incredible learning and growth experience that will transform leaders, churches, and communities. This is the best research available, packaged in a robust learning journey for cultural change.
2 digital summits taught by the best ministry experts available.
Regular webinar training on topics that really matter to your church.
10 months of group and personal coaching.
Groundbreaking ministry assessment tools.
Access to an exclusive community of Seventh-day Adventist Churches and leaders who all want to learn and grow.
Long-term access to video, webinar, and audio recordings, to share with your team
10 month learning journey with personalized coaching: $975 (Huge value)
Registration Deadline: March 29, 2024
THE BEST RESEARCH
Applied to the Seventh-day Adventist Context for proven results since 2017.
Churches across the country are both shrinking and aging as more young people disengage. However, there are scores of congregations that are bucking this trend and developing cultures that welcome, empower, and engage teenagers and young adults.
The Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) has conducted groundbreaking research with over 250 of these leading congregations to learn what they do right. Based on this study of a diverse group of churches, six essential strategies have been discovered that any church can use to better involve and retain young people. What’s more, when these innovative churches engage younger generations, it breathes life and vitality into the whole church.
Through the Growing Together Cohort, rather than sorting through the numerous strategies you could try, we’ll help you focus on what’s most essential in helping young people discover and love your church. This advanced cohort training model invites your team to journey with like-minded Seventh-day Adventist Churches for one year and beyond, learning from the best research available, to help your church create a customized and strategic approach to building a thriving community for all generations, while growing younger.
Unlock key-chain leadership, empathize with today’s young people, take Jesus’ message seriously, fuel a warm community, prioritize young people (and families) everywhere, be the best neighbors.
Webinar: Online gathering with guest speakers and group discussion. (approximately 1 hour in length)
Summit: Online gathering with guest speakers, extended team planning time, and interaction with coaches. (approximately 2.5 hours in length)
Group Coaching Lab: Coaching call between churches and coaches (appoximately 1 hour in length)
One-On-One Coaching: Scheduled Coaching call between a coach and church team. (approximately 45 minutes in length)
March 29: Registration Deadline
April 2 (Tues): Welcome Webinar @ 12:00PM PT
April 14 (Sun): Digital Summit #1 @ 9AM PT
May 7 (Tues): Webinar #2 @ 12PM PT
May 28 (Tues): Group Coaching Lab #1 @ 12PM PT
June 4 (Tues): Webinar #3 @ 12PM PT
June 11 (Tues): Group Coaching Lab #2 @ 12PM PT
July: Work on Projects
August 6 (Tues): Webinar #4 @ 12 PM PT
August 20 (Tues): Group Coaching Lab #3 @ 12PM PT
September: One-On-One Coaching (Scheduled)
October 27 (Sun): Digital Summit #2 @ 9AM PT
November 5 (Tues): Final Webinar #5 @ 12PM PT
“I’m extremely pleased, this initiative is bringing to the table the latest research and scholarship, along with motivated local church leadership and small group dynamics to help churches look at themselves in the mirror, ask honest questions and find honest answers.”
“The six Growing Young strategies engage church leaders with their young people and strengthen congregations to reach their communities for Jesus. Get the book. Read the concepts. Empower your church.”
“The churches involved in Growing Young in Washington Conference are being revitalized as they intentionally focus on intergenerational ministry. Attendance is growing and spirituality is on the rise at these churches.”
“The lifeblood of a vibrant church (or organization) is intergenerational community—people of all ages sharing life, worshiping God and serving in ministry together. Such a community, like a family system, seeks to fully engage all and intentionally equips and raises up new leaders from the next generations. This is the purpose of the Growing Young initiative, and when you invest in NextGen leaders in makes the church healthier today.”
““The ‘journey with’ mindset is where profound and lasting transformation occurs. Intentional commitments need to be nurtured for all generations to grow. The Growing Together Cohort affords a wondrous journey for all churches who engage it.” —A Allan Martin, PhD, Teaching Pastor, Younger Generation Church”
“I appreciate all the coaching calls and webinars, they are of great value. I love hearing stories of what is working from other church teams.”
“I feel enlightened and better equipped to launch a sustainable youth/YA ministry effort at my church, and set God-sized goals.”
“Our church was challenged to let go of all excuses, trust God, and build a better/healthier new chapter for the SDA Church.”
“I believe this is pioneering a new way to implement change within our church, and it’s actually working”
