COHORTS

CONNECTING YOU WITH OTHERS

Cohorts provide a resourced network of leaders through online and onsite meet-ups, training, and mentoring sessions. Being in a cohort is an opportunity to build relational equity, experience peer support, and build the capacity to lead healthy and effectively.

1. PROVIDE RELATIONAL SUPPORT

Some of the most important parts of ministry are also the hardest to do in isolation. Cohorts provide life-giving interaction with peers who are in step or a one-step ahead of you.

3. ENCOURAGE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Cohorts support leaders in the ABNWT to skill up through trainings, and receive support and coaching on some of the biggest internal and external challenges in ministry.

COHORT VALUES

• To be relentlessly outbound & reach lost Canadians

• To add value & lift for participants

• To provide a safe space and sense of belonging

• To provide challenge and accountability

• To provide relational equity

• To provide a learning component of some nature

BEST PRACTICES

• Each cohort will have a defined timeline of engagement

• Each cohort will have defined outcomes

• Each cohort will have a commitment to prioritize attendance at meetings

• Each cohort will honour time parameters

• Each cohort will have an apprentice leader

Facilitator: Tracy Dunham - Lead Pastor, Freedom in Christ Church, Kitchener, ON

Context: One 60-minute online meeting per week for 4 consecutive weeks, starting at 2:00pm, Thursday October 24th. You are living through one of the most anxiety-ridden times in the last 70 years. Anxiety can keep you stuck in chronic, unhealthy patterns. Develop the capacity to notice your anxiety and your group's anxiety and how to deal with it. Register here

Facilitator: John Albiston - Effectiveness Coach, ABNWT District

Context: One 60-minute online meeting per week for 4 consecutive weeks, starting at 1:00pm, Thursday October 24th. Have you been pouring 15-20 hours of blood, sweat, and tears every week into your sermon prep only to see your people continue to struggle with selfishness, division, and defeat? Preaching for Transformation is a four-week cohort that will help unlock you preaching power, authority, and Gospel effectiveness. Register here

Facilitator: James MacKnight - Adjunct Faculty, Vanguard College

Context: One 60-minute online meeting per week for 4 consecutive weeks, starting at 2:00pm, Thursday October 24th. Insights from an ancient prayer book on spiritual formation for developing leaders. Register here

Facilitators: Jeremiah Raible, John Albiston, Bob Jones - Effectiveness & Advancement Coaches, ABNWT PAOC

Context: Discovery cohorts are an invitation to relationship and a challenge to responsibility. Participants learn adaptive leadership skills, develop a leadership pipeline, coordinate a bold and visionary mission, build sustainable systems, employ a discipleship pathway, lead and live relentlessly outbound. Monthly Zoom meetings, monthly personal coaching, on-demand learning modules; assigned reading materials; a 6-month commitment.

Facilitator: Kevin Janzen - Young Leaders Network Director, ABNWT PAOC

Context: 60-minute, once-a-month meetings. Guest speaker and discussion. 5-month commitment. Participants discover practical ways to lead and last in ministry.

Facilitator: Kevin Janzen - Young Leaders Network Director, ABNWT PAOC

Context: This one-year facilitated development pathway is designed to prepare high-potential, high-capacity young pastors and church leaders for long-term, effective ministry leadership. Visit www.abnwt.com/accelerator for details.

Facilitator: Kathy Zelman - Children’s Ministry Specialist, ABNWT PAOC

Context: 60-minute, monthly meetings; support, sharing of programs, ideas, and collaboration in Children and Family Ministry.

Facilitator: Al Downey - Pastoral Care, ABNWT PAOC

Context: 60-minute, 1st Wednesday of the month meetings. Guest speaker and discussion.

Facilitator: Doug Phaneuf - Lead Pastor, Living Springs Church

Context: The focus of the cohort is on the pastor’s soul. Participants start by reading the book, “When Everything’s On Fire” by Brian Zhand and then meet in person or on Zoom to discuss the pastoral takeaways.  

Facilitator: Brennan Jenkins - Worship Pastors, Eaglemont Church

Context: Cohort will meet through Worship Central - Quarterly meetings; seminars.

Facilitator: James Clarence - Lead Pastor, Cornerstone Pentecostal Church Yellowknife

Context: Pastors working in churches north of the 60th parallel; Support; Fellowship; Training; Prayer.

Facilitator: Matt Joy - Discipleship Director, Hope City Church

Context: Associate Pastors, Assistant Pastors; 60-minute, once-a-month meetings. Guest speaker and discussion. 6-month commitment.

Facilitator: Yvonne Downey - Pastoral Care Administration, ABNWT PAOC

Context: For wives of pastors. 60-minute meeting, 3-4 times a year; one in-person meeting; connection, support, prayer.

Facilitator: Charity Mongrain - Coach, & Vahen King - Motivational Speaker

Context: For men and women; 60-minute meeting, 5 times a year; one in-person meeting; connection, collaboration, development.

Facilitator: David Cornock - Hope City Church

Context: For husbands of pastors; 60-minute meeting, 3-4 times a year; one in-person meeting; connection.

Facilitator: Katherine Wong - Lead Pastor, Chinese Pentecostal Church, Calgary

Context: A spring session series for credentialed women in vocational ministry focusing on “sticky floors” hot topics. Meets monthly for 60 minutes. Limited group size. 

Facilitator: Joachim Chisanga, Lead Pastor, Claresholm Pentecostal Church

Context: For pastors leading multicultural congregations or those with diverse cultural backgrounds, navigating the challenges of ministry in Canada. This group meets for 60 minutes once a month from September to November and January to May, starting in September.