Our team identifies and supports discerning church starters, church starters and existing churches as they join the mission of God through the natural and historical lifecycle of starting new churches. This growing collective of leaders is an ecumenical community of innovators that share a common culture and set of practices created to thoughtfully start new churches across Los Angeles. There are numerous aspects to this holy process. In the first stage, we invite you into two requirements to work through all aspects of discerning a call to start a new church. Firstly, we invite you into a relationship with one of our coaches, therapists or spiritual directors. This monthly meeting will allow you to discuss the nuances of your process of discernment with a thoughtful and caring expert. Secondly, we have found that the work of discernment needs to be worked out in a community of like-minded peoples. Thus, we invite you into one of our discernment dinners. At these dinners you will cross-pollinate your discernment process with others who are in a similar season of life. The second stage of our threefold cycle of starting new churches is dedicated to the starters. The practitioners. The ones who have done the work of discernment and have begun the work of starting a new church. In the third stage of the cycle, discerners become starters and starters start churches. These churches, as time passes, and as God blesses, move into moments of sustainability. Sustainability in mission, in administration, and in the health of the leadership. The task of beginning a new church can feel overwhelming for churches. We get this. To simplify the task, we have developed a three phase framework that all churches can accomplish with one goal in mind: to identify a person that you would like to invite to begin in the process of discerning a call to start a new church.