The Ministry Collaborative is committed to developing a national network of pastors and congregations committed to faithful, creative, and collaborative engagement in their communities.
Latest Blog Posts
Published twice per week, the blog aims to advance conversation topics that we believe are the most crucial for navigating ministry today.
Latest Podcasts
TMC podcasts and webinars feature people and topics that capture the most creative, innovative, and faithful approaches to ministry.
Recent Webinars
TMC webinars and podcasts feature people and topics that capture the most creative, innovative, and faithful approaches to ministry.
- “Tempered Resilience: How Leaders are Formed in the Crucible of Change,” A Conversation with Tod Bolsinger
- Smaller Church Ministry: A Conversation with 7 Pastors Who Are Deeply Involved with Ministries in & with Smaller Churches
- Recovering Missional Theology for This Critical Moment
- Moving Forward: Leading Faithfully and Courageously Post Election
Featured Online Events
Breathing Room
2nd & 4th Wednesday of Every Month
12:00 pm — 12:45 pm
Presented by: The Ministry Collaborative
Breathing Room provides clergy a place of care and concern when you feel tired, overwhelmed, burnt out, and depleted. It also provides resources, avenues and conversation partners for follow up if desired.
How Can We Sing… Virtual Cohort
February 12 – April 9, 2021
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Presented by: The Ministry Collaborative
This 8-week cohort seeks to equip, support, and care for clergy of color as they navigate this apocalyptic time as pastors of predominantly white congregations, who seek to create beloved communities. This cohort focuses on increasing clergy capacity to manage the multiple cultural shifts that are impacting communities of faith, developing appetites for tension and a love of leading change, helping clergy find and utilize their prophetic voice in the midst of political polarization, cultivating courage, empathy, confidence and joy individually and collectively; and to model these in context, how to care deeply for themselves and each other, and much more.
An Unparalleled Cohort Experience
Cohorts are highly committed, supportive, and collaborative learning communities of 10-15 ministry leaders who make a three-year commitment. Combining high levels of diversity with high levels of commitment, the cohort experience is not only deeply transformative for participants but also an avenue for developing collaborative relationships and equipping ministry for community engagement.
We’re Here to Come Alongside You in Your Ministry
The Ministry Collaborative is not just a small staff of people that oversees a program, but rather a growing network of trained facilitators, committed advisors, workshop and retreat leaders, and extraordinarily generous supporters. When you become a part of the Macedonian Ministry network, you’re not only coming together with your ministry colleagues for a cohort program, workshop, or retreat, you’re joining a growing network of resources and people committed to equipping the church and faithful and courageous ministry across the country.
For over a decade, the Macedonian Ministry Foundation has been committed to serving, supporting, and equipping ministry leaders all over the country, so that there might be a vast network of leaders and congregations that are adequately resourced and equipped for ministry in a rapidly changing landscape. While the approach continues to evolve, that commitment remains the same. The Ministry Collaborative is the latest project of MMF. It is our way of continuing to invest in ministry leaders through transformative peer learning cohorts and other avenues of support.