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  

• An opportunity for participants to connect with trained coaches and mentors experienced in local church leadership, and glean from peer to peer processing 
• An introduction to multiple disciple-making pathways, tools, and resources rooted in the holiness tradition 
• Clarity and empowerment in HOW to equip your congregation to be disciple makers 

In the time together over the 4 monthly workshops you will have created a disciple-making pathway and already begun to implement the culture shift within your local church context and 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 workshop 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 experiences 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 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. Each participant will have access to  over 120 years of ministry experience combined! If you prioritize this Cultivate Workshop experience, you will have a MAP and already be in motion to organize intentional discipleship and evangelism by the conclusion.   

Our Cultivate Team aims 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 lay 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 session of Cultivate Workshops 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 4-month commitment (once per month virtual sessions over Zoom, as well as access to your Cultivate Coach throughout this time. Resources, learning, and tools for implementation are placed inbetween each monthly gathering.  

• The next Cultivate Workshop session is Feb-June 2026. If this timing isn’t quite right, email us your interest, and we will reach out in May for next-step Summer and Fall Cultivate 2026 workshops and cohorts. 

• To become fully engaged, teachable, and listening for what the Holy Spirit wants to do in/through your own heart, and 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 4 Workshops participants will gather virtually for four, 2-hour zoom sessions. There are 3-4 weeks between Zoom meetings, 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 Cultivate session is led by our certified Cultivate Coaches, all of whom are active in current leadership in a local church. All coaches will be present in group sessions to share large group instruction; there will also be times to break out into smaller groups with your assigned Coach. There are over 120 yrs of experience amongst our Cultivate Coaches! 

• The resources on the digital platform will support most of the learning; when participants gather for a session, it will be focused 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 workshop), apps that support disciple-making, and more! 

Workshop 1: Introduction/Orientation 

Objective: We will begin a Holy Spirit guided self-assessment, God-given wiring and gifts, and also how to assess those around you in both personal and ministry relationships. Taking a journey back to the beginning, back to the basics, and prayerfully guided to listen for God’s love and direction for each individual and each church to say the next YES to God!  

Workshop 2: Recognition 

Objective: Building the community, seeking God in prayer, and identifying first steps to take their church’s culture from where it currently is to where God wants it to go. We will also discuss practical ways to take a proactive approach to disciple-making, explaining and exploring ‘Evangelism + Discipleship are two sides of the same coin.’ 

Workshop 3: Exploration 

Objective:  Walking through the Holy Spirit’s supernatural empowerment to love and serve others, and diving into practices that equip our communities to be disciples who make disciples. We’ll also explore how to dive into discipleship for the long haul and commit to a long-term approach to making disciples. Be introduced to multiple resources and tools that are vetted and approved by the Director of Discipleship, to be assured there is no compromising on the theology of the content. Leaders can have peace and be empowered to boldly engage and distribute these disciple-making, Gospel-centered tools. 

Workshop 4: Application 

Objective: Now that we have and have made an inventory of what needs to be restored, cleaned, changed, or readapted, this session will guide participants in seeing discipleship beyond a program or teacher/student style classes, into (or additionally) seeing it as Spirit-filled living.  In it we will discuss God’s calling for all believers to identify, equip, and mobilize workers for the harvest.