While this has long been ECO’s theological conviction, we haven’t always known how to live that out practically. Join us for a five-session cohort experience designed to help ECO leaders push through barriers to build mixed-gender ministry partnerships that are both personally satisfying and missionally effective. Sessions will include discussion based on the book by the cohort facilitator, Rob Dixon, titled Together in Ministry: Women and Men in Flourishing Partnerships. This cohort is co-facilitated by Kelsey Schuett (InterVarsity).

• How can women and men work alongside one another in healthy ministry partnerships?
• What blind spots might you, your church, and your staff have regarding gender issues?
• How can we encourage emerging and existing women leaders?
• How can men become allies for women in ministry?
• How can we create safe spaces for men and women to honestly wrestle with what it means to be “better together”?
• What are some practical tools and small shifts we can make in our staff or at our church to witness what it looks like to be decidedly egalitarian?

Come join us as we more effectively align our theology with our practice in pursuit of greater missional transformation both as individuals and committees! Virtual Meeting Dates (Wednesdays from 10am-12pm PT): April 17th, May 1st, May 15th, May 22nd, and June 5th. Cost per person: $30 All are invited! Sessions, staffs, pastors, teams, and volunteers that are made up of both men and women are invited to come and learn together how men and women can work better together for the sake of each other and the sake of the Kingdom! At least two people per church need to be signed up in order to take part in this cohort, and your registration must have at least one male and one female for optimum learning.