RESIDENCY LABS TAILORED TO YOUR MINISTRY STAGE

The Equipping Group developed multiple year-long residency processes to serve you — whether you are trying to discern your call and fit for ministry, whether you’ve recently stepped into a new role, or whether you are a veteran minister looking to grow God’s people into developed, disciple-making disciples. We’re honored to partner with various organizations, denominations, networks and churches, to provide training for ministry and planting!

Discover your Mission | Plant a Church | Become a Sending Church

Discover Your Mission

EVERYONE HAS A ROLE IN GOD’S KINGDOM,
LET US HELP YOU FIND YOURS

This is a collaborative, experiential nine-month training that considers aspects of spiritual life and family, personal leadership, and giftings through the lens of God’s mission and your specific fit for the kingdom.

In partnership with Plant Fort Worth, Soma, & Texas Baptists

Plant a Church

“Early Years” Planter Cohort

CHURCH PLANTING CAN BE HARD
YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO IT ALONE

TEG’s Early Years Cohort is for leaders in your first three years of a church plant. It involves nine months of coaching, peer learning, and relationships through spiritual and practical realities, unique to the early years of starting a gospel-centered, Spirit-led, multiplying church.

Church Planting Lab

START A CHURCH THAT FITS YOUR UNIQUE
CONVICTIONS, LEADERSHIP, & MISSION FIELD

This collaborative, experiential 10-month training equips you in practical areas of starting a gospel-centered, Spirit-led, multiplying church. You’ll learn, discuss, practice, and glean from many trainers in a cohort of peers, as your spiritual confidence and ability is bolstered in time-tested church planting/leadership competencies.

In partnership with Plant Fort Worth, Soma, & Texas Baptists

Become a Sending Church

Saturate Disciple-Making Lab

COURSES AND TRAININGS TO EQUIP YOU
TOWARD GOSPEL SATURATION

  • Develop a definition of a disciple of Jesus

  • Build a unique disciple-making pathway for your context

  • Cultivate the environments and culture that support disciple-making

  • Design transferrable tools that lead to disciples who make disciples in your church.

In partnership with Saturate

Exponential Multipliers Learning Community

YOU’RE A MULTIPLIER.
WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU MULTIPLY.

The Multipliers Learning Communities were created to help forward-thinking leaders engage in peer-to-peer learning about the future of the church. Exponential’s Multipliers Learning Communities has served hundreds of diverse Kingdom leaders over the last decade guiding them to the critical paradigm shifts to embrace their vision and purpose to:

In partnership with Exponential

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Discernment Lab applicants should be at least 22-years-old, with confirmed leadership experience, who is looking to lead/serve within a ministry organization the future.

    Church Planting Lab applicants should be at least 24-years-old, with confirmed leadership experience, who is hoping to plant within 1–2 years (or is within 12 months of having planted).

    “Early Years” Cohorts are for leaders in your first three years of a new church plant.

    And the Disciple-Making Lab and Multipliers Learning Community exist for leadership teams of existing churches, looking to take tangible steps into raising & sending leaders for the great commission — in your church & from your church.

    All applicants must be involved in local church life, ministry, and mission during your Lab. And you must display the character, competency, and capacity to lead, as well as humility and teachability. Applicants commit ~8 hrs/wk (plus onsite Lab Weeks), and hold to the Lausanne Covenant.

  • *THIS INFO APPLIES TO “MINISTRY DISCERNMENT”, “CHURCH PLANTING”, & “EARLY YEARS” TRAININGS* For Disciple-Making Lab & Multipliers Learning Communities, click the buttons above to get info from Saturate’s & Exponential’s websites, respectively.

    Equipping Group Residency Labs involve five interwoven components. Each is customized to each resident, sending church, and mission field:

    1. Internship: You’re immersed into a local sending church for a ~3-4 hrs/wk, where you learn ministry by doing it, and create a Development Plan around specific areas of growth in your personal/family life, beliefs/convictions, leadership, mission, and ministry.

    2. Assignments: You’ll give ~3-4 hrs/wk of reading, watching, listening, writing, and practice, before and after from each Lab Week. These are exclusive trainings from noted practitioners in each residency’s training area.

    3. Lab Weeks: Every two months, you and your peers gather for 2-3 days, where you discuss prep work, learn and pray together, and hear from experienced trainers on various competencies. You also carry out practical exercises per each class's theme.

    4. Organization focus and assessment: We recognize and appreciate the nuances of different churches/sending organizations. We work with yours to create space for training org-specific values, doctrine, and/or ministry philosophy. And we encourage a formal assessment through your sending organization .

    5. Spouses’ involvement: No one is more impacted by ministry than the pastor’s family. Discernment, Church Planting, & Early Years processes involve spouses to varying degrees. Specific involvement for each residency is described in that residency’s .pdf.

  • The Discernment Residency costs $450/mo over 9 months (Sept - May).

    The Church Planting Residency costs $450/mo over 10 months (Aug - May)

    Tuition covers online and print materials, administrative and coaching costs, and all Lab Week expenses (incl. food, trainers, activities, etc.). Residents/ churches cover travel costs to Lab Weeks, and any expenses for your local church internship. As part of the training, we encourage you to raise 100% of tuition and costs.

    An Equipping Group value is “accessible training.” We aim to offer high-quality training, at a lower cost than you’d find elsewhere — and through our “pay-what-you-can policy,” our hope is to make residencies accessible to quality applicants in any situation. Let’s talk!

  • The reality is that 85%+ of the principles behind discipleship, ministry, and mission translate across denominational, theological, and other lines. The Equipping Group is honored to serve growing ministers and train planters across many organizations.

    In the past, The Equipping Group’s leaders have trained residents from organizations across the US like Acts29, Soma/Saturate, Plant Fort Worth, various Baptist and Presbyterian organizations in different states, and independent churches as well.

  • If you have questions after looking at the information for each residency linked above, contact us here or email hi@equippinggroup.com. We look forward to taking this step in ministry with you!