Myriad Pathway
Helping teams form and grow a new church community.
Designed for people who want to respond to God’s call to form a new church community, as well as those who are already underway. The Myriad pathway provides both the community and the structure to support your team in its formational stage.
The Myriad Pathway is a structured, supported journey for those called to form new church communities. Over approximately two and a half years, leaders move through five stages of learning, practice, and formation - developing not just the skills and knowledge a new church community needs, but the character, depth, and resilience that will sustain one.
The Pathway is built around the conviction that forming a healthy church community is not primarily a project to be managed but a calling to be lived. Learning events, a peer community, team mentoring, and structural accountability create a rhythm that supports the whole person - not just a leader's competence, but their faith, their relationships, and their sense of God's call.
Leaders do not travel the Pathway alone: Every participant belongs to a learning community that regularly gathers throughout the journey. Additionally, each team is accompanied by a mentor and supported by an oversight minister.
The five stages of the Myriad Pathway reflect the natural arc of forming a new church community: from discerning a God-given vision, building a team, forming a disciple-making culture, to growing and sustaining a community that can multiply.
Learning community
Gathering with other teams at your Hub — usually a Friday evening and Saturday: An important time of shared learning, prayer, teamwork and testimony.
Mentoring
Mentoring for the team leader with an experienced missional Christian leader who understands your context.
Oversight
Supervision from your sending church leader, ensuring you have all the support you need as you form and establish your new church community.
Stage 1
Vision
Discern God’s call and develop a God-given vision; reflect on the core elements of ‘church’ and develop a personal lifestyle of mission and evangelism
Stage 2
Leading as Team
Develop team rhythms and practices that will put disciple-making at the heart of your leadership and new church community
Stage 3
Disciple-Making Pathway
Form a coherent disciple-making pathway, that is shaped by the core elements of ‘church’ (stage 1) and grows disciples who can make disciples of others
Stage 4
Discipling Community
Explore and embed the principles and practices that create a discipling community at the core of a new church community
Stage 5
Growth
Plan for growth, sustainability, and next steps.
"Am I Called?"
Free guide — the best place to start if you're still working this out.
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The Pathway is delivered through Myriad Hubs — local partnerships between Myriad and local churches, organisations and dioceses, that create a space for teams who are forming new church communities to train side by side. Every Hub follows the same core Pathway, led by a Hub Leader and supported by experienced facilitators, mentors and oversight ministers, within the context of a learning community.
Explore our Hubs →A church leader identifying or sending a team should visit our guidance for church leaders.
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