BOOT CAMP
Grand Rapids, MI

We seek to come alongside and help accelerate what God is already doing in your ministry. We have chosen to take a posture of you can do it, how can we help? The Disciple Maker Assessment Discover your profile and pattern of disciple-making. The assessment is FREE and takes about 20 minutes to complete. Multiplication Culture Assessment Take the FREE Multiplication Assessment. The Multiplication Assessment takes less than 20 minutes and helps you know where you are and how to move forward. Church Mobilization Culture Assessment This unique tool is still in beta form. However, discover your church's mobilization capacity with this FREE assessment.

We seek to come alongside and help accelerate what God is already doing in your ministry. We have chosen to take a posture of you can do it, how can we help? Click here to explore the multiple funding grants available for sending churches.

We seek to come alongside and help accelerate what God is already doing in your ministry. We have chosen to take a posture of you can do it, how can we help? MissionInsight MissionInsite is a comprehensive demographic database tool that equips church leaders with insightful information to help them understand how to impact their community (Jerusalem) and beyond (Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth) with the Gospel. MissionInsite has been providing solutions to churches and regional agencies for over 13 years. Today, they serve over 107,000 faith-based organizations and 175 national and regional church agencies across 20 denominations. Their tool integrates multiple premier data sources including Epsilon, Experian, and Synergos, among other quality demographic research studies. Their data is updated twice per year to provide churches with the most accurate demographic trends and changes possible. The Great Lakes Region of The Wesleyan Church is proud to make this resource available for FREE to all of our churches in Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois.

There are many books we could recommend. However, here is a list of a few many of our multiplying leaders have recommended. Gaining by Losing by J.D. Greer Become a Ripple Church by Phil Stevenson Spark: Igniting a Culture of Multiplication by Todd Wilson Exponential Conference Free eBook Library 1000 Churches: How Past Movements Did It and How Yours Can Do It, Too by Daniel Im (PDF) Do you have a recommended book we should add to our list? Let us know! CM@TheGLR.org

Every year the churches of the GLR are taking new ground for the Kingdom and expanding the gospel to more people in more places. The GLR's network of multiplying leaders and churches is always striving to learn and grow. We grow in wisdom with every new effort, project, plant, and planter so that we can serve and support YOU and God's unique calling on your heart. Here are a few of our favorite courses to fuel the fire of multiplication in your ministry. Live Sent - Discover Your Calling course with Groundswell - Is God stirring your heart for ministry beyond the walls of the physical church? In this 5-session course, you will learn how to discover your calling and effectively discern the voice of God in your life and ministry. Jesus told his disciples in John 20:21, “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” It's time to discover your calling and “live sent.” Mobilizing Disciple Makers course with Groundswell - In this 6-session cohort, you will learn the marks of a disciple-making church and the steps necessary to create a strategic, comprehensive, and clear discipleship pathway. In addition, this cohort will help pastors move from blueprint to construction. This cohort is ideal for pastors interested in building a disciple-making process in their church. Church Multiplication BOOT CAMP - Our Boot Camp is the best orientation and initial training for church planting, campusing and missional fresh expressions. Boot Camps are offered to you 3-4 times a year and offer participants practical principal-based steps to launching a missional movement. For more information about training for church planters. Please take a moment and send us an email. We look forward to serving you. CM@TheGLR.org True^North: Disciple-Making in the Word For the Local Church: is a resource for all believers and local churches to better study the Word of God in depth. This resource helps every believer develop a better way of diving into the Scriptures. Pioneer Training Center course with Groundswell - The Pioneer Training Center is a community of emerging and existing pioneers and a hub for encouragement, support, and ministry equipping. It is a place to discover your calling, develop your ministry skills, and better discern how to reach new frontiers with the gospel. Mobilizing Marketplace Multipliers course with Groundswell - In this 4-session training, chapter leaders will receive everything they need to LAUNCH a new Marketplace Multipliers chapter. This course is ideal for leaders seeking practical training on disciple-making and mobilization. In addition to this online platform, we also provide opportunities for coaching. "Become a Level 5 Multiplying Church" course with Exponential Learning Community - This course is designed to help you and your church move toward multiplication. You will gain a thorough understanding of the framework of “Becoming a Level 5 Multiplying Church”. You will learn about all 5 levels and know your own level (i.e. your Profile) as your starting point. You will get insights into Levels 4 and 5 and learn from others who have made that journey. And this course will help you recognize the tensions that you’ll encounter on your way to Level 5 so that you can begin to take your own steps toward kingdom multiplication. This course is based on the material from the eBooks Spark: Igniting a Culture of Multiplication and Becoming a Level 5 Multiplying Church. Exponential - Resource Kits - As a multiplying leader, you will naturally desire to know all you can so you can do all you can. To fuel this desire for wisdom and growth, we encourage you to dive into the resource kits our friends at Exponential have provided. We can not stress enough how valuable and diverse this collection of free resources is. Here is our advice as you look through these resources. Take the time and energy required to discern the voice, leading, and calling of the Holy Spirit. This is the most important advice we can give. Take your time, and work through one entire kit at a time. Avoid the temptation to fill your plate and then not finish anything. Take a friend with you. Having another person to walk through the content with us is vital in making the information come to life in your context. Having a friend for the journey will also hold you accountable to glean as much wisdom as possible. Take a break to practice what you have learned. Knowledge is good, but wisdom comes from exposure to new information and experience practicing what you have learned. When you find a resource kit that helps you, please let us know with an email: CM@TheGLR.org. We are continually learning about these resource kits and how they are helping so many of our leaders. Thank you! Looking for something more? We are happy to help connect you to the course that answers your specific questions. Please reach out and let us serve you. CM@TheGLR.org

Spirit Anointed Leadership Podcast - Whether you recognize it or not, you are constantly influencing and leading the people around you. But the real question is, what kind of leader are you? In order to see and experience the “exceedingly abundant fruit” Jesus wants to offer us, it is crucial we learn how to lead from a Spirit Anointed place. The Church Multiplication Collective is an intentional community of pastors and leaders committed to DISCOVERING, DEVELOPING, and DEPLOYING workers for the Lord’s harvest, until we have a transforming presence in every zip code. This podcast is all about learning how to be an effective church multiplier and helping you become a catalyst for God’s missional movement on earth, wherever you are. Purple Fish: Crucial Conversations on Evangelism - Mark O. Wilson and his guests will offer fresh, new approaches for sharing Christ with others, especially for those who feel inadequate and intimidated by witnessing. Purple Fish shows how it can be a delightful adventure of faith, filling your own soul in the process. Looking for something more? Let us know, we would be happy to help you find the podcast that best fits your needs. CM@TheGLR.org

Send Well by Ed Love 5 Indicators That You Might be Leading a Church Planting Church by Ed Love Pastoring a Sending Church (with Pat Hood)