• Training to create awareness, readiness and commitment for transforming congregations toward a missional posture.
  
• Training for theological grounding in a missional orientation, skills for raising contextual attentiveness, practices of communal disciple formation.
  
• Conceptual and practical skills for leading change.
  

Year One:	Introductory Workshop for all local church leaders (clergy and lay) focused to stimulate awareness and readiness for local church renewal. Workshop for leaders (clergy and lay) focused to introduce, invite, and move into the local church process, followed by local church decision to opt in or opt out.
Year Two:	Workshops for pastors of local churches participating in the journey of transformation. (Other pastors and leaders are encouraged to attend as well)
Year Three:	Workshops for pastors of local churches participating in the journey of transformation. (Other pastors and leaders are encouraged to attend as well)

• Enlist, train and guide a group of churches through a process of missional transformation.
  
• Provide theologically-grounded curriculum resources to help congregations 1) get ready for the journey, 2) develop a common view of current realities, 3) discern God's vision for their church, 4) design their ministry future and 5) embody their vision in practical strategies.
  
• Bible study processes that stimulate theological reflection, forming hearts and minds of disciples to discern and live God's vision for their church.
  
• Evaluate and learn from experience in this transformation process to ensure assimilation of new skills and knowledge with additional groups or clusters of congregations.
  

Years 1-3:	Each local church's leadership team receives consistent support from a trained transformation consultant. Communication and collaboration occurs among congregations moving through the process linking arms.
Year One:	Cluster workshops with a transformation team from each local church. Foci: Module 1: Getting Ready for the Journey; Module 2: Discovering our Missional Context.
Year Two:	Cluster workshops with a transformation team from each local church. Foci: Module 3: Discerning God's Call; Module 4: Crafting our Missional Strategy.
Year Three:	Cluster workshops with a transformation team from each local church. Foci: Module 5:Shaping Missional Life and Witness; Module 6: Living into a Faithful Future.

• Training and support for consultants identified and enlisted from across the regional body.
  
• Extensive consultant training resources that provide a range of practical and conceptual tools.
  
• Coaching for consultants to assist local churches on the journey of missional transformation.
  

Year One:	Initial consulting training seminar. Consultant training and support workshops.
Year Two:	Consultant training and support workshops.
Year Three:	Consultant training and support workshops.

Consultants receive coaching and resources to design and facilitate cluster workshops with congregations and leadership development workshops.

The consultant component provides the means to support successive groups or clusters of congregations across the judicatory over time in a journey of renewal.

Consultation, training, and printed resources support with judicatory leaders and coordinating team to:

• Cultivate readiness, commitment and support for the development of a regional strategy of missional transformation.
  
• Encourage and sustain corporate critical thinking throughout the judicatory for determining how to live and witness in a missionary setting.
  
• Link churches with one another, helping them build relationships of mutual support and sharing of gifts.
  
• Support the Coordinating team to provide on-going leadership, coordination and support of a transformation "pilot" process.

Costs will vary according to the scope of a project and the length of the ministry partnership agreed to. It is recommended that the congregations and the regional body share the costs since financial ownership by the congregation helps committed participation. We would be glad to explore a more detailed scenario and how it might be structured for your situation.

The initiating body is a middle judicatory church development, evangelism, or mission committee. That body together with its regional council contracts with the Center for first steps: to organize and equip a regional coordinating team, design the regional approach that fits their situation, cultivate broad awareness and support, and begin enlistment. The process begins with training, and unfolds as a powerful system of support to an initial cluster of churches, their clergy and lay leaders, supported by a cadre of consultants-in-training. The Center staff supports the regional coordinating team, trains the consultants and equips them to support the cluster of churches through their journey of missional transformation. Curriculum resources are provided to support all leadership and congregational participants in the process. As a result, powerful new learning and renewal takes place. Consultant training pays dividends for years to come, while training and resources become available to more and more congregations as successive "waves" of churches participate.