If any of these statements are rooted in your heart or ministry, Cultivate may be for you:

• I have the Great Commandment and the Great Commission memorized. It’s even painted on a wall of our church building. But I don’t know how to help those statements take shape within our church and impact our community. 
• We have really great people in our church, who give their finances generously to support ministry, but they are not being discipled or making disciples.
• I don’t know how to lead my congregation in being discipled, let alone making disciples. Reflecting, I cannot name someone who has intentionally discipled me; others’ investment in me has been by formal education and leadership development. I just don’t know what a disciple-making relationship looks like.
• I am devoting my life to servant-leading this local church into making Jesus’ “Heaven on earth” dream come true, by the Acts 1:8 power of the Holy Spirit. I’ve preached sermon series about the importance of not just knowing God’s call, but actually living it out. But no matter how hard I/we pray and work, we are not seeing disciples making disciples.
• We hold Sunday School classes and small groups, but many of the believers have been in those classes for years, and have yet to live out of a posture of being discipled, let alone making disciples. 
• I cannot write down my disciple-making pathway on a napkin. 
• All of the disciples are being made by our leadership or staff. That’s great! But how do we get the rest of our church to be involved in being discipled and making disciples?

If you can relate to any of these statements, or if you’re wanting to see the trickle of disciple-making flourish into a movement, please consider joining us. We will walk together, growing beyond a programmatic approach with knowledge transfer-reliant teaching, and intentionally shift our paradigm of disciple-making relationships and how evangelism and discipleship intertwine with each other. Once these take place, we can become a disciple-making culture where “this is just who we are, and this is just what we do. We are Wesleyans. We are disciples who make disciples.” 

• A learning community of Wesleyan pastors and discipleship leaders walking together step-by-step through the journey of growing a disciple-making culture
• A space for the Holy Spirit to guide participants through the development and implementation of a contextual disciple-making pathway 
• Clarity and empowerment in HOW to equip your congregation to be disciple makers
• An introduction to multiple disciple-making pathways, tools, and resources rooted in the holiness tradition
• A digital platform as the hub of intentional and organized resources 
• A virtual space for coach engagement and peer to peer processing of the 7 paradigm-shifting modules
• An opportunity for participants to connect with trained coaches and mentors experienced in local church leadership, and glean from peer to peer processing

By the end of this cohort, you will have developed a disciple-making pathway and already begun to implement the culture shift within your local church context and begin to see the shift from having a Great Commission sized dream, into a transformed identity of disciple-making both in sanctifying believers and making new disciples where you live, learn, work and play.

Within each module, we will addresses the paradigm shift topics and speak to both the leader’s heart (personal) and the church’s heart (corporate): 

• Prayer and Reflection-Time secured for prayer and spiritual formation, seeking the Holy Spirit’s voice, abiding (being) and overflowing into obedience (doing)
• Stories and Testimonies- Ground-level lay leaders and pastors share their experience and wisdom along the journey of disciple-making cultures
• Wesleyan Roots and History- Stories and examples looking back to who we (TWC) were, for inspiration to keep moving forward 
• Culture-building and Vision-casting Exercises- ways of communicating and implementing paradigm shifts amongst your leadership and congregation
• Fast-track Consolidated Learning- the most essential information sifted from an abundance of resources rooted in our Wesleyan doctrine and  (ex. highlights from over 20 books and articles)
• Digging Deeper- launching-pad resources, beyond the course work required within the cohort, helpful in expanding vision, empowerment, and implementation

*Each leader will be introduced to a rich abundance of disciple-making resources rooted in our Wesleyan doctrine and tradition, to select the disciple-making pathway that fits their context best.

With the launch of Cultivate, we are delighted to already see high involvement from our districts and local churches! Each cohort spot is highly sought after. Our goal is to engage a representative from as many Wesleyan churches in these learning communities as possible. As such, we are prioritizing leaders who are all-in.

At this time, we are inviting lead pastors or leaders serving in a role that directly impacts the vision of disciple-making in your local church. 

We believe the hope of the Gospel is lived out in and through the local church. Wesleyan Headquarters (the Discipleship Team) metaphorically are the roots of a tree which provide the nutrients and stable foundation. Our Wesleyan Districts are the trunk of the tree, bringing even greater stability and transporting the nutrients and water up to the branches. And saving the best for last, our Wesleyan Churches are the branches, growing the leaves, and producing the fruit. We believe in the local church and aim to take down any barriers we can; and for Cultivate, this includes the cost. 

• This cohort will be provided at no cost (FREE) to Wesleyan pastors and discipleship leaders. 
• Financial contributions and prayer to support our trained Cultivate coaches are welcome. Please prayerfully consider how your church, network, or district can be a part of plowing a path and planting seeds for those who will come behind you! 

The Discipleship Team’s commitment to our local Wesleyan churches is to provide resources that empower the local church and individual disciples to start and grow disciple-making movements, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Taking down barriers, such as access or cost, is of highest priority to us. 

With this Cultivate cohort being provided at no financial cost (FREE) to Wesleyan pastors and discipleship leaders, we ask you to prayerfully consider the following:

• The capacity of your next season, evaluating if this is the right next step for you and your church for the entire 12-week commitment (including 7 virtual sessions through Zoom).
• Evaluate what Cultivate cohort session is best during the year. The first Cultivate cohorts launch in September of 2025, with new sessions offered year-round in January, June, and September. 
• To come fully-engaged, teachable, and listening for what the Holy Spirit wants to do in/through your own heart, and in/ through your church and community.
• Who on your team will collaborate and proactively develop and share the vision of the new disciple-making culture for your ministry, step by step. (Lead, Executive, Associate, Discipleship Director, Lay Leaders etc.) 
• Financial contributions and prayer to support our trained Cultivate coaches are welcome. Please prayerfully consider how your church, network, or district can be a part of plowing a path and planting seeds for those who will come behind you! 

Over the 12-week cohort participants will gather virtually for 7 sessions, each Zoom being 1.5 hours. There are 2 weeks between modules allowing designated time to learn, process, develop, and implement your disciple-making pathway.  

Each week leaders will fill in the Culture Mapping Plan (CMP), and by completion of the cohort, have selected and already begun to implement the disciple-making pathway for their church.

• Each cohort is led by a trained coach with experience leading within the local church. 
• The resources on the digital platform will support most of the learning; when participants gather for a session, it will be focussed on processing and implementing the take-aways 
• Resources include videos, questions prompting reflection and direction, assessments, consolidated learning (ex. golden nuggets/relevant take-aways from books that are essential to the module), apps that support disciple-making, and more! 

Module 1:   Breaking Ground  

We will begin with relational engagement and get to know those joining the learning community; we will then go over the layout of the cohort, and begin to seek God in prayer for what He is about to do through this learning community.

Module 2: Tilling the Soil    

In this session together, we will layer onto the assessments and insights taken thus far into the cohort, establish core values and identify first steps taking your church culture from where it is, to where God wants it to go. 

Module 3: Passive to Proactive 

In this session, we’ll consider the concept “evangelism and discipleship are two sides of the same coin. They cannot be separated. This is the currency by which we acquire multiplication.”  Discussing practical ways to take a proactive approach to discipleship. 

Module 4: Self to Supernatural 

We will talk through how the Holy Spirit supernaturally empowers us to love and serve others and dive into practices to equip our communities to be disciples who make disciples. 

Module 5: Instant to Intentional 

Good discipleship doesn’t happen overnight. This module will cover how to commit to discipleship for the long haul. 

Module 6: Program to Proximity 

This module will help us shift from seeing discipleship as a teacher/student class, into seeing it as a relational, life on life relationship. We’ll learn how to be attentive to how the Holy Spirit shapes each individual’s life as we walk in close proximity with those God is entrusting us with.

Module 7: Pastor-centric to Priesthood of all Believers

We’ll discuss God’s calling for all believers and dream about what it can look like to function as a fully empowered and equipped priesthood of believers.  We’ll cover how to identify, equip, and mobilize workers for the harvest.