Discovery Center

DISCOVERY CENTER

The Growing Healthy Churches Network seeks to support church planters and leaders for the work God has for them (Acts 13:1-2). And one of our key support strategies is our assessing system. In 2008, we launched the Growing Healthy Churches Network Church Planting Discovery Center. Primarily, we strive to help leaders discover if the lead position in a church plant is a good fit for their next step of ministry but the process is also used for assessing campus pastors, turn around pastors, missionaries and ordination candidates.

While we do include some training, it’s not a conference or seminar. The Discovery Center is designed to help leaders discern the best fit for their next step in ministry. The Center includes:

Multiple advisers
Proverbs 24 tells us that “many advisers” are needed to engage in spiritual warfare. The Discovery Center staff consists of experienced assessors who know how to assist ministers in transition as they explore church planting or other roles. (Our director has lead the Church Planting Assessment Center for over ten years, and seen over 1,000 couples come through assessment. Our top counselors have interviewed hundreds of candidates. And our administrators have years of experience in assessing.) The Discovery Center staff always includes effective, knowledgeable church-planters and ministry leaders.

Multiple days
The Discovery Center takes place over 3+ days so that staff and candidates have ample time to consider the best fit for ministry.

Multiple exercises
Candidates participate in a wide array of exercises, interviews and instructions so they can look at themselves from different viewpoints.

Multiple tools
The GHCN Discovery Center utilizes several valuable testing tools, such as the Gallup StrengthsFinder instrument, the Myers-Briggs type indicator and the DISC test in helping candidates clearly understand their wiring.

Multiple outcomes
Candidates are given thorough feedback from the Discovery Center staff regarding next steps in ministry. Those suited for church planting are pointed toward the next steps and support systems within the GHC Network. Those who seem best suited for other ministry endeavors are steered toward some specific exploration paths such as pursuing the lead pastor of an existing church, an associate role, a campus pastor position, missionary work, team roles or other leadership opportunities--we want to help leaders discover their best fit.

Multiple opportunities
We have several GHC Network Discovery Centers scheduled:

May 1-4, 2012 // Dallas TX area
July 30 - August 2, 2012 // Sacramento CA area
September 18-21, 2012 // Detroit MI area
November 6-9, 2012 // Huntsville AL area
We’re excited about supporting leaders and planters through our Discovery Centers. If you are thinking about church planting as a possibility for your next step, or if you know someone who just might turn out to be a church planter, contact the GHC Network Assessment Specialist, Rachel Kihlthau at ghcdiscoverycenter@gmail.com for registration information. If you’d like to serve in a Discovery Center as a staff member, feel free to contact GHCN Director JD Pearring at jdpearring@gmail.com.

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Growing Healthy Churches Resource Office

2420 Camino Ramon Suite #140
San Ramon, CA 94583
(925) 277-3980 phone
(925) 277-3985 fax

The GHC Network mission is to support church planters and high level leaders for the task to which God has called them (Acts 13:2). We’re developing a movement where church planting leaders are reproducing healthy churches.

DISCOVERY CENTER

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Growing Healthy Churches Resource Office