Three Rivers Collaborative seeks to provide an opportunity for churches to enter into a yearlong collective journey of exploration and application with a core group of strategic leaders (pastors and lay leaders from their own and other churches) who hope to understand, translate, integrate and multiply the 7 Marks to Movement into their ever-changing cultural contexts. TRC is designed to come alongside churches as they consider paradigmatic shifts and develop a practical plan of action.

Three Rivers Collaborative is not a pre-prescribed, plug and play approach to church ministry. Each church will have different needs and will consider unique strategies. Some churches might make a move toward strengthening leadership, some might consider innovative ways to gather together, some might become aware of the needs of the city in a way to would move them into a dynamic missional expression, and some might make the move to co-vocational or bi-vocational staff. This collaborative effort is not designed to train churches with a particular end in mind, but to educate them in the process of pivoting and adapting to the ever-changing needs of their cultures and church communities, especially in the continuing wake of the Covid-19 crisis. To be very clear, the goal of Three Rivers Collaborative is not designed to make better pastors. Instead, the focus is equipping the entire church to grasp the overarching mission and vision for their church and engage in a learning process that will affect the entire faith community. This will help them to cultivate an ecosystem centered on mission.

And so, to help cultivate a collaborative learning community centered on mission, TRC is built around a series of one-day conferences (3), cohort retreats (2), immersion trips, and ongoing coaching with learning communities working together through these phases of reframing mission, relearning the ways of Jesus, and releasing the church’s potential.