It’s time to reimagine how we train church planters.
Are you ready to start something new?
We Journey with innovators who seek gospel liberation
What we do
We curate transformative learning experiences like discernment academies, church planter assessments, co-creator trainings, and more.
We co-create an imagination for faith-based start ups by tracking national trends, putting planters from across the country in conversation with each other, and practicing humility in our willingness to always be surprised by where God is leading next.
We connect innovators with systems of support by seeking culturally-informed support plans for planters, connecting planters with each other, and offering tailored content.
How we understand gospel liberation
Post-Colonial
We repent of America’s history of colonization. We compost colonizer mindsets (present in many church planter trainings) into insistence on liberation.
Contextual
There is no generic church planting method. Everything has arisen out of context and, therefore, all of our methods must be adaptive to context.
Innovative
We’re not afraid of new things! In fact, Intersect was founded by practitioners, by people who saw gaps in our contexts and created something new to fill it.
Diverse
We believe it honors the Gospel when we create space for many experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives. Further, we know that significant harm can happen in these spaces unless there is a thorough and honest power analysis of privilege and marginalization.
Equitable
God loves us all equally, but society ain’t fair. We seek a reparations approach to our training by intentionally lowering barriers for BIPOC planters, queer planters, and more.
Read about all of this in our book, where we meet
Meet the Team
Rachel Gilmore
Rachel Gilmore specializes in fresh expressions/missional communities, coaching, and church planter assessment and training.
Candace Lewis
Candace Lewis is the first woman elected to serve as president of Gammon Theological Seminary, the only historically Black United Methodist seminary. She loves God, life and people!
Tyler Sit
Tyler Sit specializes in church plants, intersectional anti-oppression, the Enneagram, and more.
Kris Sledge
Kris Sledge specializes in strategic thinking, anti-oppression advocacy, leadership development, asking probing questions, and church planting.
Matt Temple
Matt Temple specializes in interactive training/development and coaching for establishing new faith expressions in a post-Christendom context.