Development Cohorts
Grow in your development as a Kingdom worker
Sign up now for a Fall 2025 cohort.
Rooted in Ephesians 4:10-13, each cohort we offer focuses on fives values that can help build your church as a disciple-making community.
INTENTIONAL - a clear path for development in a specific area
RELATIONAL - learn and grow with other brothers and sisters
COMPETENCY-FOCUSED - gain knowledge and develop ministry skills
TRANSFORMATIONAL - center on becoming more like Jesus
TRANSFERABLE - reproduce in your local church or ministry
Questions? Contact Alan Rathbun.
Fall 2025
Development Cohorts
As you seek to equip your people to be fruitful with Jesus in His disciple-making mission, we invite you to join a development cohort this Fall. Just let a cohort leader know you’re interested.
Cohorts are open to Official Alliance Workers along with their spouses and leaders. Church leaders can join a cohort, but only alongside their pastor or another Alliance worker at their church.
Healthy Feedback & Correction
9.16 - 10.27
This cohort is designed to help cultivate a church culture where feedback feels safe, growth is normal, and love is expressed in spurring one another on to love and good deeds.
10.1 - 11.30
This cohort equips you to create a clear definition of a disciple and explore proven pathways that move your people from transformation to multiplication.
EPD Multipliers Cohort
Gospel Conversations That Lead to Transformation
10.1 - 12.11
This cohort will prepare you to equip your people to engage in gospel conversations that can lead to transformation in any group size or setting.
Building a BLESS Culture
in Your Church
10.1 - 11.30
Using the BLESS practices, this cohort aims to establish a clear trajectory toward evangelism becoming normal for people in your congregation.
“And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”
Ephesians 4:10-13