Turning Your Dream Into Reality

Through both determined pathways and custom approaches tailored for your unique context, we'll guide you from pre- to post-launch.

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Catalytic intercultural church planters and movement leaders from Europe at Mosaix 2025.

Step 1: Application

  1. Complete this informational survey.
  2. Submit a 7-10 page paper outlining your:
    a. Personal history
    b. Ministry formation
    c. Calling to plant a multiethnic church (i.e., through whom, how, when, and where did it become clear).
  3. Submit a 5-7 minute video describing your vision: i.e., where and when you intend to plant a multiethnic church. If you are married, include your spouse. NOTE: Just be you; no need to script it. Rather, approach it as a conversation with us, as if we were in the room.
  4. Submit 3 letters of recommendation, each focused uniquely on your:
    a. Character
    b. Family
    c. Gifting (cite proven ministry effectiveness)
    d. Skills (include strengths and weaknesses)
  5. Interview with someone from our team

Upon completion of the application process, we will contact you to accept, delay or turn down your application.

Step 2: Assessment

  1. Complete personality profiles and a role preference evaluation
  2. Obtain a letter of affirmation and a promise of prayerful and/or financial support from the senior pastor of a sending church
  3. Submit three papers (4-5 pages in length) outlining your understanding of:
    a. The biblical mandate and theological underpinnings of a multiethnic church
    b. The cultural moment and contextual needs you seek to address by planting a multiethnic church
    c. The lived experience (your own) that uniquely positions you to plant a multiethnic church
  4. Interview with Mark DeYmaz

Upon successful completion of the assessment process, you will start the general equipping track.

Step 3: Alignment

NOTE: You will complete these courses as part the equipping process, as you simultaneously engage your dedicated practitioner throughout the acceleration phase and prior to launch.

  1. Complete a 16-week, non-credit bearing Certificate in Multiethnic Ministry via the Mosaix Multiethnic Church Institute at Wheaton College Billy Graham Center ($750) or 8 sessions studying Building a Healthy Multiethnic Church on Right Now Media guided by a practitioner ($1,500).
  2. Complete a 16-week, non-credit bearing Certificate in Cultiural Intelligence via the Mosaix Multiethnic Church Institute at Wheaton College Billy Graham Center ($750) or a personal CQ assesment and training session facilitated by Dr. Harry Li or Dr. Graham McKeague. ($1,500).
  3. Complete a 16-week, non-credit bearing Certificate in Church Economics via the Mosaix Multiethnic Church Institute at Wheaton College Billy Graham Center ($750) or 4 sessions studying Disruption: Repurposing Your Church to Redeem the Community guided by a practitioner ($1,500).

Step 4: Acceleration

NOTE: In partnership with your practitioner and others in your planting class, you'll imagine, develop, and finalize the following (among other things):

  1. Mission, Vision, and Values
  2. Name, Domain, and Website
  3. Statement of Beliefs
  4. Articles of Incorporation
  5. Developmental Strategy
  6. Team-based Leadership Structure
  7. Foundational Budget and Inital Revenue Streams

Step 5: Activation

NOTE: In partnership with your practitioner and others in your planting class, you'll determine how, when and where to;

  1. Cast Vision (minium of 3 months)
  2. Attract Interested Others
  3. Solidiy Initial Membership
  4. Begin Weekly Meetings
  5. Onboard Key Staff
  6. Secure Funding
  7. Officially Birth the Church

Step 6: Adaptation

Guided by your practitioner and in colaboration with others in your planting class, you'll chase low hanging fruit and make necessary adjustments to strengthen the church  in the first twelve months post-launch along three fronts:

  1. Spiritual (internal missional vibrancy)
  2. Social (outward facing missional vibrancy)
  3. Financial (asset mapping and leveraging to get beyond survival to stability)

Step 7: Association

This stage ensures our continued relational connection, shared identity, and mutual responsibility for the health, growth, and ongoing vitality of Mosaix' church planting network and the Multiethnic Church Movement.

  1. Receive Ongoing Pastoral and Strategic Support
    Maintain access to your dedicated practitioner, class peers, and network leaders for continued wisdom, encouragement, and problem-solving.
  2. Participate in Advanced Leadership Gatherings
    Engage in annual summits, regional convenings, and select learning pathways focused on long-term missional vibrancy and sustainability and multiplication.
  3. Serve as Mentors to Emerging Planters
    Walk alongside new community members through prayer, guidance, site visits, and shared learning.
  4. Contribute to the Church Planting Community
    Share best practices, case studies, and lessons learned to strengthen the collective wisdom of the network.
  5. Maintain Your Commitment to the Work
    Periodically reaffirm alignment with Mosaix values, formation practices, and multiethnic mission through a shared covenant.