Pastors & Leaders: Find a Local Space to Belong and Refill Your Soul
Discover a place for encouragement, community, and practical development within the World Impact Transform Network.
You were never meant to lead ministry in isolation.
Faithful leadership can be lonely.
Leading others often means carrying heavy burdens with few places to safely drop your guard. Your calling is not the problem. The lack of a genuine relational safety net is.
Your calling matters and so do you!
The Transform Network creates space for urban ministry leaders to be encouraged, known, equipped, and renewed to help you reach your communities for the gospel.
Let Us Help You Connect
Tell us about your ministry, city, and current season. Our team can help you identify a practical next step.
We want to help you find the connection and support that fits your current season of ministry.
If you’re interested in hosting local gatherings in your area, please let us know.
3 Ways to Connect
Choose the support that fits your next season.
Join a Local Cohort
Discover local relationships and encouragement.
Meet monthly with a small group of urban ministry leaders to share a meal, process real ministry challenges, build friendships, and receive context-aware encouragement.
- For leaders who need a trusted local peer community
- Monthly two-hour gatherings with 7–15 leaders
- Facilitated by experienced local urban practicioners
- Includes access to regional Lunch & Learn workshops for lay teams
If you are interested in facilitating a Transform Network group in your city, please review our theological commitment below and then submit your online application.
Free monthly cohorts; Lunch & Learns: $15
Grow Through the Online Network
Take advantage of flexible leadership formation.
Participate in virtual leadership-formation experiences designed for busy and bi-vocational urban leaders seeking structured growth and individual coaching.
- For leaders seeking flexibility and deeper development
- Interactive learning focused on renewal, strategy, and leadership
- Designed to connect ideas to ministry action
- Includes dedicated one-on-one professional coaching
$150 per track; $450 for the full three-track series
Attend a Partner Gathering
Feel part of a movement and reenergize.
Reconnect with leaders across the wider movement for spiritual renewal, shared wisdom, celebration, and a renewed sense of Kingdom partnership.
- For current network partners and ministry pioneers
- Annual regional gatherings for connection and encouragement
- Designed to refuel leaders and celegrate Kingdom impact
- Builds relationshps across a broader urban-ministry movement
Event timing and participation details vary by gathering
“We’re building this network around relationships and friendships with each other. We want to bring leaders into the network to help provide that place of community and belonging where they can learn, grow, and thrive together. We hope that when they come out of an event they feel like they went to the gas station and their gas tank got filled up. That they come out with new friendships, with new tools, and ready to engage in their community again in a healthy way. Not just to get by week to week. Not just to keep themselves from dying, but growing, thriving, and reproducing themselves in their communities.”
— Jordan King, World Impact Transform Network Director
Not sure where to begin?
Start with the need you are carrying.
You don’t have to choose a complete leadership-development plan before you connect. Begin with the kind of support that would help you be faithful and sustainable in this season.
If you are thinking…
“I need people who understand.”
Start with a Local Cohort if you need relational safety, local friendship, a place to process, and encouragement from peers in urban ministry.
If you are thinking…
“I need space to grow with structure.”
Explore the Online Network if you need flexible formation, practical leadership development, and dedicated one-on-one coaching.
If you are thinking…
“I need to reconnect and be renewed.”
Explore Partner Gatherings if you are looking for movement-wide encouragement, shared learning, and spiritual refueling.
Let's Start a Conversastion
Tell us a little about your ministry, city, and current season.
A Transform Network or Ministry Mobilization teammate can help you identify a practical next step.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Welcome?
The network is open to men and women serving in pastoral and ministry leadership
- Elders, deacons, and developing leaders.
- New ministries and church plants
- Christian non-profits
The network is intentionally open to ministries and churches coming from various cultural, racial, and theological perspectives if they can affirm our statement of faith.
We join together despite our differences to glorify God and demonstrate our obedience to Christ and show ourselves to be his disciples.
John 13:34-35 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” NIV
What is the Theological Commitment?
As members of the World Impact Transform Network we commit to defend the “Great Tradition” (the faith “that has been believed, in all places, by all people, at all times”) as expressed in the Nicene Creed.
For a full theological statement please visit worldimpact.org/about-us/our-beliefs/ for more information.
