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You Deserve Supportive Relationships and Resources to Start a Church

Most church starters get stuck simply because they don’t have the support they need to do something new. 

  • “I’ll start when my life is less chaotic.”
  • “I’ll start when the grant comes through.”
  • “I’ll start once I learn the right steps.”

What if we told you that you have access to all the support you need to take the big steps to start right now?

What if You had Everything You Needed to Start a Church Now?

Tackle Practical Concerns

Whether it’s finances, trauma, spiritual concerns, or leadership issues, we will surround you with peers and professionals who can help you.

Develop a Clear Strategy

Sometimes it’s hard to know what steps to take next. We will give you access to courses, books (and their authors), professional coaches, peers, and others to help you discern your pathway forward.

Start a Church This Year

The most common thing all innovators need to start new churches is a multi-tiered network of support. Cyclical Culture provides you with 360 degree support so you can innovate.

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Imagine what life will be like

when you can start a church with all the support you need

  • You are getting strategic input from experienced church starting coaches.
  • You are caring for yourself and getting healing from others from past trauma
  • You are getting training from cutting edge church starting books, classes and courses
  • You have a clear financial plan and a fundraising coach for your new church

Start a Church in Community with Others

Month after month, you’ll transform the way you start new churches 
from formula to formation, 
from specialized to Spirit-led,
and from consumerism to communion, community and commission. 

ONE-ON-ONE, 30 MIN

Professional Coaching

Every planter needs a coach to keep them on track. As part of the community, you will be paired with an experienced coach who will meet with you one-on-one for 30 minutes, once a month.

MONTHLY GATHERING, 45 MIN

Plenary Trainings

Cyclical Culture gathers once a month for 45 minutes to share stories, pray for each other, and get trained on core competencies you’ll need to start a missional church.

SPECIAL WORKSHOPS ON

Missional Discipleship

One of the most important aspects of starting a church is creating a culture of missional discipleship. You’ll learn how to guide your church in what it looks like to follow Jesus in your context.

SELF-GUIDED

Church Planting Video Course

In these 4 interactive video lessons, your professors will train you to think differently about church starting. Ask questions, interact over the material, and transform your approach to starting a new church.

DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES

Entire eBook Library

There is more going on in your life and leadership than you could ever process in a class. You’ll get a library of eBooks that will help you learn from the wisdom of others, gain new perspectives, and ask new questions.

SPECIAL WORKSHOPS ON

Revenue Streams

While money is not the goal, it certainly is worth talking about. We’ll help you design revenue streams that are not based on fear or greed. Instead, you can create a plan for revenue based on loving neighbor, staying true to purpose, and trusting in God.

QUARTERLY, GROUP SETTING

Fundraising Coaching

Every quarter, you’ll get to meet with an experienced fundraiser so you can ask your questions and learn from the experiences of others who are in similar situations as you.

MENTAL HEALTH SCHOLARSHIP

Therapy Credit

Because of our partnerships with generous mental health services and grantors, qualifying Cyclical Culture members will have access to a mental health therapist at rates low as $35 per session.

SPECIAL WORKSHOPS ON

How to Plant a Church

Many church starters wonder what they need to focus on in this season. Learn to identify what stage of the journey you’re on so you can take timely steps forward without getting distracted.

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Terry McGonigal
Terry McGonigal
Pasadena, CA, USA
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For over two millennia effective gospel ministry has always considered the particular needs of the local community in which each church is rooted. Cyclical churches take this approach, and the results speak for themselves. Gospel transformation of people, families, and communities. Pentecost all over again in the 21st century!
Daniel Steigerwald
Daniel Steigerwald
Portland, OR, USA
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Both Cyclical and Daniel, who is an experienced on-the-ground practitioner himself, are ever attempting to provide and refine practical content applicable to starting any form of healthy, enduring ecclesia. I commend them heartedly!

We Are Here to Invest in You as You Start a Church

Starting a new church or other faithful innovation is a risk that few are willing to take. You’re putting your social, emotional, spiritual, relational and often times financial life on the line because you believe that God is giving birth to something new and you want to participate. 

We believe in you, and we want to surround you with all the support you need to innovate faithfully in your context. We’ve joined thousands of church starters in myriad contexts, and we’ve gathered all of the best training, content, and support structures we’ve developed into one space that is specifically designed to help you thrive. Apply today and join us in Cyclical Culture.

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Meet Your Professors

None of us needs experts to craft theories in ivory towers. Church starters need models and practitioners who can share stories and frameworks from their experience on the ground, faithfully innovating new pathways forward.

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Daniel So

DIRECTOR OF CYCLICAL CULTURE

Ines Velasquez-McBryde

COURSE PROFESSOR

Dr. Tamisha Tyler

COURSE PROFESSOR

Mark Charles

COURSE PROFESSOR

Carl Johnson

COURSE PROFESSOR

Jennifer Guerra Aldana

COURSE PROFESSOR
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Cyclical Culture

Your Membership Includes

  • Monthly 30 minute appointments with your personal church starting coach
  • Monthly plenary trainings around core curriculum for church starters
  • Quarterly Fundraising Coaching
  • Mental health therapy scholarship-adjusted co-pay
  • Special workshop series around the Missional Disciple-Making Handbook
  • Special workshop series around Deconstructing Church Planting
  • Access video course: Going From Nothing to Something
  • Access video course: Flipping Church Planting Paradigms
  • Access eCourse: Healthy Revenue Streams for Church Starters
  • Deconstructing Church Planting eBook
  • Building a Garden of Churches eBook
  • The Missional Disciple-Making Handbook eBook
  • 10 Pitfalls in Starting New Churches eBook
  • Faithful Innovation eBook
  • Supply Lines eBook
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Anticipated Outcomes

As a member of this community of faithful and innovative church starters, you will…

  • Start a new church

    Church starters tell us they have trouble understanding where they are in the journey and what they need to be focusing on in this season. We can help you identify where you are in the journey and what steps you need to take next so this new church can be born.

  • Be discipled in the way of Jesus

    More than tips and hacks, church starters need people to model and mirror. This membership community gives you access to leaders who will influence your approach to innovation.

  • Be surrounded by an empowered core team

    Too often, church planters are the genius among minions, calling the shots and leading with their charisma and personality. With support and guidance, you'll build a trusted team with a culture of empowerment and ownership.

  • Relax from reduced pressure, decreased stress

    There are lots of myths floating around about what your church has to be or look like in order to be a "church". With a supportive community at your back and new resources at your fingertips, you'll bust these myths and discover the rhythms of church that the Spirit is bringing into your context.

  • Enjoy healthy and sustainable finances

    Church starters are too often obsessed with finances. We'll show you how to let mission drive your church and then create financial health through various revenue streams so you can sustain your ministry.

  • Begin healing trauma and other roadblocks

    It's more and more common for church starters to carry emotional and spiritual trauma into their planting journey. If left untended, it will jeopardize the ministry. However, with easy access to therapy, a mental health professional can help you heal so you can move forward in wholeness.

Sheila Bojorquez
Sheila Bojorquez
Los Angeles, CA
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The Lord really spoke to us, we’re still reeling from it and we talked about it all the way to school on our way to pick up our kids. We honestly didn’t what to expect from class today and I have to say, it absolutely blew us away.

Apply to Join Cyclical Culture Membership Community

Coaching $75/mo Value

Get paired with a Cyclical church starting coach.

Group Training $49/mo Value

Join monthly training with other church starters.

Special Workshops $57/mo Value

Join monthly workshops in missional discipleship and church planting.

Therapy Credit $150/session Value

Get easy access to mental health therapy.

Church Planting Course $52/mo Value

Guide yourself through a 4 part church planting video course.

eBook Library $5/mo Value

Get valuable church planting education from our library of eBooks.

Fundraising Coaching $33/mo Value

Meet quarterly with a fundraising coach.

 

Michael Veenema
Michael Veenema
Port Williams, NS, Canada
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The cyclical community of resources, encouragement, and ongoing conversation on church planting has been a source of strength for our work here at REACH.
Nicole Reid
Nicole Reid
Dunnville, Ontario, Canada
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I trust the experience and wisdom that Daniel and Cyclical bring to the church planting stage. The care taken to support individual contexts is evident in everything Cyclical offers. No cookie cutter solutions here.