Join a cohort learning experience to guide your congregation in discovering the next faithful step in your church's mission.
Exploring the five adaptive leadership muscles
C3 helps congregations strengthen the five adaptive leadership muscles needed for faithful ministry in a changing world.
Building relationships in cohorts
C3 creates a supportive community where pastors and lay leaders learn together, share wisdom, and uncover new possibilities for ministry.
Igniting Imagination
Igniting imagination helps congregations recognize God’s unfolding work, guided by leaders who have navigated similar challenges and found spiritual grounding along the way.
Getting to know our team
C3 facilitators draw from years of experience in church leadership and shared spiritual formation, offering guidance and encouragement in navigating the challenges congregations face today.
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Building Relationships in Cohorts
C3 is shaped by meaningful connection. Each cohort gathers pastors and lay leaders who are navigating similar hopes and challenges, forming a circle of trust where learning begins.
Participants arrive at insights they might miss on their own, name patterns that deserve attention, and gain perspective from the experiences of others. The cohort becomes a place to listen, discern, and imagine ministry with greater depth, supported by companions committed to growing together.
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Igniting Imagination
C3 meets churches in the seasons when they find themselves at a crossroads, unsure how to continue their mission, aware that change is needed, yet unsure what change, nor how to navigate it. The program draws on the wisdom of leaders who have walked through similar transitions, offering grounding for thoughtful and prayerful discernment.
As congregations revisit their story and examine their assumptions, new possibilities begin to emerge. Imagination becomes a catalyst that helps a congregation move into a new season with clarity and conviction.
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Exercising five adaptive leadership muscles
C3 helps congregations strengthen five adaptive leadership muscles essential for today’s ministry:
Tending Grief encourages communities to acknowledge loss with honesty.
Discerning Purpose clarifies what God is calling the church to be and become.
Neighboring nurtures relationships marked by presence and mutuality.
Sharing Power cultivates leadership that is collaborative and generous.
Igniting Imagination opens space to envision new possibilities.
Together, these muscles form a way of leading grounded in courage, humility, and hope.
Getting to know our team
For over 20 years, the Learning and Innovation team at Wesleyan Impact Partners, in collaboration with Texas Methodist Foundation, has engaged thousands of church and nonprofit ministry leaders to ignite imagination toward the renewal and empowerment of a Spirit-led Wesleyan movement of love, generosity, and belonging.
Over that time, several approaches and key strategies have emerged — all toward the goal of inspiring and nurturing creative, innovative leaders.
President & CEO Wesleyan Impact Partners
Rev. Lisa Greenwood
Chief Learning and Innovation Officer
Rev. Dr. Blair Thompson
Director of Formation
Rev. Alicia Forde
C3 Director, National
Jess Bielman
C3 Director, Texas/New Mexico
Rev. Dr. Paul L. Escamilla
Learning and Innovation Program Manager
Lauren Hanks
Learning and Innovation Event Manager
Leah Yancey
Hear From C3 Participants
“The facilitators were excellent, compassionate and creative in their shepherding this work of the Holy Spirit in our midst.”
“Time to think and imagine with our congregation was most helpful, and the facilitators being a part of those conversations guiding us along with challenging questions helped us expand our thinking”
“The process is creative and thoughtful, very well facilitated, layered and intentional, experiential and participatory . . . Congregations . . . open to change . . . will benefit from this model.”
“Even if you are doing OK, perhaps even growing a bit in membership and meeting budgetary needs, what else is God calling you to do beyond maintaining what you are today?”
“This has been a really powerful opportunity of thinking and dreaming for our congregation.”
“C3 has helped us ask important questions that we might not otherwise know how to approach.”