Development Cohorts
Grow in your development as a kingdom worker
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.
2026 Winter/Spring Cohorts
Cohorts are open to Official Alliance Workers, along with their spouses. Church leaders can join a cohort, but only alongside their pastor or another Alliance worker at their church.
Creating a Blueprint for Clergy Retirement
Led by Randy Corbin and Don Weidman
This cohort is designed to provide insights and tools for drafting a blueprint for retirement for pastors and spouses. The Gospel is for all of life—even in retired life.
Shared Leadership Among Regional Pastors
This cohort is designed to build trust and care among workers in the same region and equip workers to build friendships that will help them be fruitful in life and sustain healthy longevity in ministry.
Friendship in Ministry (Regional)
Financial Discipleship: Cultivating Biblical Stewardship
Led by Tabitha Martin, Former Alliance IW, Current VP for Ministry Development for the Orchard Alliance
Each person in the cohort will explore and develop their own financial formation of surrender and then move into principles and practical steps to building stewardship essentials into the disciple-making pathway of their church.
Grace-Filled Relational Skills for Marriage
Led by Nate and Sharon Howard
This cohort offers a fresh path forward for pastoral couples by building new relational skills together. What you learn here can transform not just how you communicate as a couple, but how you model healthy connection for your family and your church family.
The Green Zone: Flourishing for Christian Leaders
Led by Jesse Gill, Psy.D., Psychological Health Affiliates in Hershey
Through this cohort, you may better understand the roots of your own struggles, so that you can get unstuck from scarcity-driven behaviors and help others walk in freedom.
“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