WHY WE TRAIN
We equip pastors, church planters and ministry leaders to build and grow healthy churches and join a network of support.
We provide coaches, mentors and peers in the journey of church planting.
Every church planter needs a community.
Ministry is hard. We’re here to help equip you to navigate the difficulties.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
We offer a variety of training programs that serve church planters in different ways. See our featured programs to determine what best fits your needs. We look forward to working with you!
INTENSIVE
The International Intensive is a multi-week program held in various locations around the world designed to train urban church planters from global cities.
The program is designed to prepare urban church planters by exposing them to urban church planting concepts, theological resources to grow churches, leadership modules, and other church planting principles.
Participants in the Intensive are selected through an extensive recruiting and screening process.
TRAIN THE TRAINER
This program orients trainers to City to City's urban church planter Incubator curriculum, a two-year course that can be adapted for their city.
We believe that by employing a training curriculum that increasingly reflects the practitioners’ own culture, leaders will develop a locally delivered training program that more effectively serves church planters.
INCUBATOR
The Incubator is our key two-year program to serve, train, and develop church planters in New York City. The Incubator is also delivered to church planters in target cities through local trainers.
Each learning module addresses the specific needs of urban planters, including skills in thinking theologically about ministry, and growth in the various areas of urban ministry. Church planters go through the program during the critical phase of launching their congregations. They get practical help on writing their action plan, the philosophy of ministry, crucial ministry development, and preaching, among other topics. Ideally, this training is accompanied by coaching to encourage the planters to perform to the maximum extent of their giftedness.