Events & Gatherings
Online and in-person events are an important way for us to forge relationships, sharpen our Jesus-centred theology and paradigm, and be formed and equipped together for ministry.
We host a range of events, gatherings, and learning opportunities in various shapes and formats. Check back regularly to stay in the loop. We look forward to seeing you soon!
# Upcoming Events
Live Podcast with David Fitch
How do we hold and use our power in a Jesus-centered way?
We live in a world obsessed with gaining and using power in every sphere of society. Every sector of society seeks to gain the power to further political, military, religious, or economic agendas. The church is not immune from the temptations of power. Christians have a history of attempting to acquire social, political, institutional, financial, military, and cultural power. History is clear: Whenever the church has aligned itself with worldly, coercive power, we lose our witness to a watching skeptical world. This is why it is so important for a church leader to reckon with the reality of their power in our polarized age. Jesus gives us a different understanding of the true power in this world. To help us, we are chatting with a friend of Jesus Collective, David Fitch about his latest book: Reckoning with Power Why the Church Fails When It’s on the Wrong Side of Power. We invite you to join us for this important conversation.
David Fitch (Ph.D.) is a longtime pastor in Chicago and the B. R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary. He teaches on the issues the local church must face in mission including cultural engagement, leadership, and theology.
Jesus Collective Partner Hubs
Join Jesus Collective for our Partner SuperHub’s as we explore and deepen our understanding and ability to lead through some of some of the most pressing and challenging realities of our cultural moment.
Online Learning Collective
January 25- March 07 — Online Learning Collective: Deepening your discipleship to Jesus in our polarized world
UNITE 2024
The Prophetic Church: 4 Ways a Church Renewed by Jesus can Surprise the World
The growing Jesus-centered movement is a movement seeking to renew the church by putting Jesus at the center of our lives, our ministries, or our businesses.
We believe Jesus can surprise the world by making possible what seems unimaginable.
Join us at Unite 2024 as we explore these important pain points and the ways a church renewed by Jesus can surprise the world.
# UNITE
The growing Jesus-centered movement is a movement seeking to renew the church by putting Jesus at the center of our lives, our ministries, or our businesses.
We believe Jesus can surprise the world by making possible what seems unimaginable.
Join us at Unite 2024 as we explore these important pain points and the ways a church renewed by Jesus can surprise the world.
The Prophetic Church: 4 Ways a Church Renewed by Jesus can Surprise the World
1. A unified church displays a new possibility in a polarized world.
2. A church at peace offers healing to an anxious world.
3. A spiritually thick church brings hope to a cynical world.
4. A church centered on Jesus surrenders power in a world obsessed with control.
Stay tuned for more info and speaker reveals …
# Online Learning Collectives
Jesus-centred Leadership Formation is one of our key areas of focus. We’re excited to be offering a series of Online Learning Collectives – six-week, cohort-based formation experiences featuring facilitated small group learning, weekly spiritual practices, live interaction with thought leaders, one-on-one coaching, interactive online forums, and curated learning resources.
Who are these for?
Lead/Senior pastors; leaders of Christian organizations; staff pastors or ministry leaders in multi-staff churches; youth, family, and discipleship pastors; new leaders to ministry; and leaders new to an “Anabapt-ish,” Jesus-centred approach to ministry and discipleship.
Featured Online Learning Collectives
At Jesus Collective, our number one priority as Christian leaders is to be intentional about our inner life and leading from our own transformation. Check out our cohort-based, relational learning experience and invest in your ongoing internal health to transform yourself and the people & communities you lead.
Want to experience an Online Learning Collective?
# Live Podcasts
These are relational, online learning and equipping hangouts – a safe space for like-minded leaders to wrestle with what Jesus-centred living and leadership means while learning from and engaging interactively with thought and practice leaders from this growing Jesus-centred movement.
In each live podcast, attendees can interact with our featured guest(s) and each other through a live discussion and Q&A time and join smaller break-out rooms to meet others and process the topic together. The content will be challenging and provide some practical equipping ideas that can make a difference in our everyday Jesus-centred life and leadership.
Featured conversations are listed below. Check back often for new additions! All of our online podcasts are posted to our podcast channel.
Have ideas for a podcast? Share ’em with us at connect@jesuscollective.com.
Featured Podcasts
A Jesus Centred Renewal Experience at Asbury & 24/7 Prayer with Pastor Keith Smith
Jesus Collective partner and pastor Keith Smith shares about launching a 24⁄7 prayer room at his Ohio-based church, and his recent experience of attending the outpouring at Asbury University. We chat about encountering God, doubts, skepticism, and the ability to recover a childlike sense of wonder and awe in the face of God’s mystery. Keith invites us into his journey of being Spiritually re-awakened on the other side of loss and pain.
# Regional Gatherings
Regional gatherings are an opportunity to learn more about Jesus Collective, cast vision together, meet new like-minded peers, and network relationally with people in your neck of the woods. They are informal, typically one-day events that also feature a focused development session with a thought leader centred on themes and topics of interest to this movement.
We’ve held events in cities in Canada, the US, and the UK. Check back regularly to see an updated listing, and give us a shout if you’d like to request a gathering in your area.
# Learning Labs
Learning Labs are short term groups that meet to learn and share learnings around specific topics relevant to organizational leadership and church life. Past Learning Labs have covered Jesus-centered Children and Youth Ministry, Church membership as discipleship and discernment, Having a pastoral conversation about sexuality in your church, etc.
Stay tuned for future Learning Labs you can join.