Cohort Training
Embark on a transformative journey through our live, weekly cohort training courses designed exclusively for church leaders. Dive into crucial areas essential for mastering governance, finance, budgeting, and more.
Training for Treasurers
Setting up treasurers for success.
Equipping your governing body
Training volunteers to be mission focused.
Helping pastors empower leaders
The training seminary didn't provide.
New in 2024
What is Cohort Training?
Experience a dynamic learning environment where engagement thrives. Our Cohort Training limits each group of 10 to 12 individuals, fostering:
- Interactive Sessions: Engage in live discussions, fostering interaction, dialogue, and community building.
- Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded church leaders, sharing experiences and insights.
- Q&A Sessions: Benefit from tailored support and in-depth conversations facilitated by your expert facilitator.
- Group Support: Leverage the collective wisdom of the cohort, gaining diverse perspectives on real-world scenarios and challenges.
- Presentations and Facilitation: Expert-led presentations coupled with facilitation, encouraging open dialogue and exchange of ideas.
Who Benefits from this Cohort Model?
This cohort model is crafted for church leaders eager to expand their knowledge, network, and impact within their community. If you seek to excel in governance, financial stewardship, and leadership, this is for you.
Who Might Find This Cohort Model Incompatible?
This program may not suit individuals who are not committed to personal growth and delivering excellence in service to God and their church community. It requires dedication and an eagerness to evolve in your leadership role.
Cohort Training Courses Available Now
Budgets That Inspire Giving
Tuesday Nights 6:30 pm PST
March 20, 2024 – May 14, 2024
This training program is designed to introduce church leaders to a missionally focused narrative model of budget presentation. Participants will learn the importance of missionally driven decision making, budgeting for missional purposes, basic strategic planning processes, how to build a narrative budget around the core values of the church, calculate the figures for the narrative presentation, integrate creativity and well-crafted presentation, and connect the stewardship model of the church to the budget presentation.
Each session is designed to be dialogical in nature. Some will begin with a PowerPoint presentation followed by group discussion. Others will be group discussions facilitated by the course facilitator.
Good Governance
Thursday Nights 6:30 pm PST
March 22, 2024 – May 16, 2024
This training program is designed to prepare newly elected church governing body members to understand their roles and responsibilities. Participants will learn about the corporate duties of a church governing body, protecting the tax-exempt status of the church, the importance of segregation of duties, managing restricted and designated funds, missionally driven leadership, budgeting with a missional focus, reading financial reports, and safeguarding the church against fraud.
Each session is designed to be dialogical in nature. Some will begin with a PowerPoint presentation followed by group discussion. Others will be group discussions facilitated by the course facilitator.
Cohort Training Courses: Coming Soon!
This training program is designed to prepare newly elected treasurers in the Church to effectively fulfill their role. Participants will learn about the corporate duties of a church treasurer, how to oversee church finances with a missional focus, establish policies and procedures, implement segregation of duties, make mission-focused financial decisions, interpret financial reports, and prevent fraud in the church.
Each session is designed to be dialogical in nature. Some will begin with a PowerPoint presentation followed by group discussion. Others will be group discussions facilitated by the course facilitator.
This training program aims to equip church leaders with a structured process for developing financial policies and procedures that align with their church’s unique setting, polity, ethos, and structure. Participants will learn the importance of financial policies and procedures, engage in a process to discern and define these policies specific to their church setting, understand the intent and purpose behind these guidelines, clarify responsibilities, and cover key areas in a financial policies and procedures manual.
Each session is designed to be dialogical in nature. Some will begin with a PowerPoint presentation followed by group discussion. Others will be group discussions facilitated by the course facilitator.
This training program is designed to introduce church leaders to various tax issues that churches may encounter. Participants will learn about the types of taxes churches are responsible for, the exemptions churches enjoy, potential risks of losing tax exemptions, and special tax-related issues related to ministers, donors, employees, and independent contractors.
Each session is designed to be dialogical in nature. Some will begin with a PowerPoint presentation followed by group discussion. Others will be group discussions facilitated by the course facilitator.
This training program is designed to provide church leaders with a comprehensive understanding of employees, independent contractors, and payroll-related issues specific to the church context. Participants will learn the distinctions between employees and independent contractors, exempt and non-exempt employee categories, the ministerial exception, payroll taxes, housing allowance, state and federal application of unemployment and disability taxes, and workers’ compensation, including completing a workers’ compensation audit.
Each session is designed to be dialogical in nature. Some will begin with a PowerPoint presentation followed by group discussion. Others will be group discussions facilitated by the course facilitator.
This training program is designed to prepare newly elected chairs of the church governing body to effectively fulfill their role. Participants will learn about the corporate duties of a church governing body chair, how to lead church governing body meetings with a missional focus, establish policies and procedures, make mission-focused financial decisions, interpret financial reports, and prevent fraud in the church.
Each session is designed to be dialogical in nature. Some will begin with a PowerPoint presentation followed by group discussion. Others will be group discussions facilitated by the course facilitator.
This training program is designed to prepare newly elected church governing body members in the United Church of Christ to understand their roles and responsibilities. Participants will learn about the corporate duties of a church governing body, protecting the tax-exempt status of the church, the importance of segregation of duties, managing restricted and designated funds, missionally driven leadership, budgeting with a missional focus, reading financial reports, and safeguarding the church against fraud.
Each session is designed to be dialogical in nature. Some will begin with a PowerPoint presentation followed by group discussion. Others will be group discussions facilitated by the course facilitator.