Church Pastor Strengthening
Keep your whole self strong throughout your ministry
You’re more than a pastor—you’re a human with needs beyond Sunday services. Let’s make sure those needs are met.
When you’re part of Converge, you gain our professional, financial and relational resources along with people to invest in you—along with people you’ll be able to invest in too.
How we strengthen pastors
Find iron-sharpens-iron relationships
Connect with pastors, ministry leaders, thought leaders, and coaches from across our movement and around the world.
Choose from resources built specifically for pastors
Access resources for your professional, personal, and financial development both now and throughout your career.
Partner with people like you—and even better, unlike you
Because we’re a culturally diverse movement, we make each other better by nurturing ministry connections across races, backgrounds, and cultures.
Be part of more than 170 years of gospel collaboration
Since our first church was established in 1856, we’ve been deepening our theological roots. Want to learn more about our heritage?
We’re unified, not uniform
We’re a network with no doctrinal statements to sign and no litmus test beyond the basics of the faith. Want to learn what we believe?
How we support your leadership
Regional leadership teams
Because your regional team is here for you, always know who your first call will be—in any ministry situation.
Compass
A weekend intensive to create a strategy for your spiritual, relational, and leadership health.
Retirement plan
Financial security for pastors and others through the Converge-sponsored retirement plan administered by GuideStone©.
Church strengthening
Keep your church and its leaders on His mission for the long haul.
Here’s what pastors are saying about Converge
Dating back to shepherds on the Middle Eastern plains (Genesis 29:2–3), feeding, protecting and growing a flock works best when we coordinate and collaborate with others. I’m grateful for and better because of fellow Converge leaders and churches.
Great videos. Short, sweet and challenging. Looking forward to growing together as a board using this tool to help us be a unified team moving in God’s direction for his people.
This residency has provided room for me to recruit, train, organize and lead a team toward preparing to plant a church.
Want to partner with us? Here's how it works.
The process
Let’s connect
Fill out the form below and someone from your regional team will schedule a call with you. You’ll usually hear back within a day or two.
Let’s get to know each other
Meet your regional team, attend a local LEAD Team meeting, and start building iron-sharpens-iron relationships.
Let’s partner
As a Converge church, you get brothers and sisters on your side to resource you. But you’ll also bring something special to our movement, and we’ll rely on your input to make us better too.
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Let's work together to strengthen your church and see more lives changed by Jesus
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