Flipping Church Planting Paradigms

Get Trained by Leading Missional Practitioners
to Start a Church From Scratch

4-Week Course in March, 2023

We Have to Change the Way We Start New Churches

You want to plant a healthy, vibrant, missional church that changes your community, yourself, and the lives of those you lead. But so many of the models we’ve learned don’t actually lead us toward flourishing but toward the destruction of community and personal burnout. The good news is that we can re-learn the historical, faithful and innovative seasons of starting new churches so that we can avoid replicating destructive patterns and instead promote the flourishing and health of the church we’re seeking to start. 

Learn How to Start a Church You Love to Lead

Over the course of four weeks, 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. 

LIVE COURSE LESSONS

Get Trained by Your Professors

This is not a canned video library. Instead, you’ll have direct access to your professors, who will train you to think differently about church starting. Ask questions, interact over the material, and transform your approach to starting a new church.

ONE-ON-ONE COACHING

Develop an Imagination for Your Context

There is more going on in your life and leadership than you could ever process in a class. We’ll pair you up with a church starting coach to help you unpack what this training means for your context.

COMMUNITY INTERACTION

Collaborate with Other Church Starters

The journey of starting a church can feel lonely. One of the best things you can do for yourself is to connect with other church starters in different contexts. In this course, you’ll learn in mutual relationships with others on our course platform.

Meet Your New 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. Each of our professors is someone you’ll want to learn from and model as you embark on the journey of starting a church.

Mark Charles

LESSON 1
LESSON 2

Jennifer Guerra Aldana

LESSON 3

Ines Velasquez-McBryde

LESSON 3

Dr. Tamisha Tyler

LESSON 4

What You Can Expect to Learn

In this four-week course, you’ll get live access from five professors who will form you as a missional church starter.

Lesson 1

The Season of Discernement

by Mark Charles

Mark Charles, author of Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, will teach you how to engage the season of discernment. He’ll move you away from discernment as simply a private exercise, and instead show you how to immerse yourself in community to discern the Spirit’s mission. Mark will train you to notice the difference between power and authority, and show you how to operate in authority as you take the first steps of discerning a new church.

Lesson 2

The Season of Gathering a Team

by Carl Johnson

Carl Johnson, pastor of Faith to the Nations church, will teach you how to navigate the season of gathering a team. He will train you to create a missional culture and team long before you launch a public worship service or social enterprise. He’ll teach you to do community organizing, build a discipleship core, and create apostolic impulses in your team.

Lesson 3

The Season of Community Formation

by Jennifer Guerra Aldana and Ines Velasquez-McBryde

Ines Velasquez-McBryde and Jennifer Guerra Aldana will teach you how to enter the season of becoming a public expression of church. They will move you away from relying on set plans and elusive certainties, and train you in how to rely on Spirit-led communal rhythms of reflection and discernment. They will bust the biggest church starting myths around vision statements, social media, and worship teams, and they’ll show you how to establish “ritmos”, or communal rhythms that sustain thriving missional congregations.

Lesson 4

The Season of Adaptation

by Dr. Tamisha Tyler

Dr. Tamisha Tyler, church starter and professor, will teach you how to engage the season of adaptation. Invariably, every church starter realizes that the original vision is different from the lived reality. Tamisha will train you to lead your team in adapting to disruptive challenges and unexpected events. She will guide you through a simulation where you’ll have to adapt as a team, and then help you debrief to sharpen your skills at leading through disruption.

Flipping Church Planting Paradigms

Your Registration Includes

The 4-Season Framework

You don't need a formula or equation to start a church, but it is helpful to have healthy frameworks to keep you moving forward.

Downloadable PDFs

Each lesson will have tons of content, more than what your notepad will be able to hold. But on our course platform, you'll have lifetime access to all the course materials.

Video Replays

You'll probably want to go back and watch each lesson again. The course platform will store all the video replays so you can review the material weeks or months later.

1 on 1 Coaching

You are on a unique journey in starting a church. Whether you're discerning or adapting an existing church start, we want to learn about your story and offer any guiding questions to help you take your next steps.

Community Platform

Get to know other church starters in different contexts on our community platform where you can post, chat and interact.

Course Certificate

Get a certificate of completion when you finish the course that you can post on your profile or in a frame.

100% Guarantee

If, after participating in all four lessons, you regret registering for the course, you can request your money back, no questions asked.

By the end of the course, you will

  • Know where you are in your church starting journey

    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. By understanding the four seasons of starting a church, you can focus on making the most out of your current season.

  • Be a little bit more like your professors

    More than tips and hacks, church starters need people to model and mirror. We designed this course to give you access to leaders who will influence your approach to innovation. You'll be able to ask questions and let their influence flip the way you approach your ministry.

  • Start with authority rather than power

    We are constantly swimming in a sea of competing interests and influences. Sometimes it's hard to know if we're following the way of Jesus, or if we're just falling into the trap of power. In this course, you'll clarify your powers of discernment so that your leadership is based on authority rather than power.

  • Start leading with an empowered team, rather than alone

    Too often, church planters are the genius among minions, calling the shots and leading with their charisma and personality. This course will teach you to gather a trusted team with a culture of empowerment and ownership.

  • Let go of all the unnecessary pressure of planting

    There are lots of myths floating around about what your church has to be or look like in order to be a "church". We'll help you bust these myths and discover the rhythms of church that the Spirit is bringing into your context.

  • Let the mistakes roll off your back

    Starting a church is never what we imagine it will be like. The early failures don't have to stop you and your team. We'll show you how to use these opportunities for growth and adaptation.

Register for the Course

When you join the course, you get immediate access to the course platform. We packed as much as we could into this course so that you have everything you need, in a short period of time, to start a church on the right foot.

Training

Gain access to leading missional practitioners during weekly trainings. Ask your questions, share your stories, and get input from faithful innovators who can teach you new ways of approaching the calling to start a church.

Coaching

You’ll get to schedule a 1-on-1 coaching appointment with a Cyclical church starting coach so that you can contextualize your learning and get the help you need to move forward.

Community

On the course platform, you’ll meet other church starters from a diverse set of contexts as you chat, post, and interact in breakout groups. Learn from their stories as you share your own, and be reminded that you’re not the only one called to this!

Content

If you miss a lesson for some reason, simply watch the replay later. You’ll have lifetime access, so these clips, as well as other supplementary lesson material, will always be available to you on the course platform.

Certificate

Upon completion of the course, you’ll receive a certificate for church starting from Cyclical INC.

Flipping Church Planting Paradigms

A 4-Week Course Starting in March
$ 197 Lifetime Access
  • 4 Interactive Lessons
  • 1-on-1 Coaching
  • Online Community
  • Video Replays
  • Downloads and Materials
  • Certificate Upon Completion