Work on Solutions, Not Problems!
Churches across the world are hopeful of touching the lives of their community with the love and life of God. Hoping they will magically walk in your door is less and less likely and not very missional. Using marketing tactics to convince people to visit is a universal challenge, and there are thousands of leaders who feel the pain that exists because their desire to minister to many is met with a disconnect from the masses.
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What is the solution strategy??? Equipping, preparing, and sending your people into their world is the biblical strategy. Turning your paradigm inside-out, helping people identify their personal mission niche, the unique way they presence the love and attention of Jesus, connecting with the community you live in! Taking the Church to the world instead of just inviting the world to church.
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Where do we begin? Our Solution Strategy... MISSION FORWARD.
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Each Mission Forward experience is geared to the local church's unique mission and vision in its local context.
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We Listen. It begins on Friday evening with dinner or a coffee klatsch and conversation about your role as a church and individual expressions of Jesus among your relational networks. We need to know what people already know and how they feel about being a Disciple, the New Testament invitation to Jesus' followers.
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We Discover. It continues on Saturday with a full-day workshop we call Awaken. You choose whom to invite to this discovery workshop. We hope for a minimum of ten key influencers. We know God is at work preparing every Christian for the unique impact each was made to bring to the world around them. Awaken helps an individual discover who God made them to be and what God planned ahead of time for them to do, revealing the presence, personality, and power of Jesus to their world.
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We Fan the Flame. Sundays are for fueling passion, the strength and energy necessary for Kingdom mission. According to Paul's letter to Timothy (1.6), "For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands." Church leaders, pastors, ministers gladly ordain and release their members to dive in, all in, to the mission of Jesus. An option for Sunday evening is an informal gathering of those who want to commit to next steps, deeper conversations, and Q-n-A on local mission formation.
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Ministry Partnerships to Advance Mission
Phil Underwood & Epic are committed to helping you design ministry from the inside out. We offer our partnership affiliations to fully serve you from building people in the story of Jesus, expanding the footprint of your calling and mission, to creating spaces that facilitate the transformation of souls.
Got an amazing project in mind?
Let's work together and let us help you the best way we can, telling your story.
Strategic Storytelling
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Brand and Communication Audit
Spatial Storytelling SM
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Architecture
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Master Planning
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Landscape Architecture
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Interior Design
Interactive Storytelling
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Custom Web Development
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Content Strategy
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Augmented Reality
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New Media
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Cast Culture
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DiscipleshipPro AI
From Consumers to Contributors: Transform Your Ministry Into a Discipleship Powerhouse
Empower your church or Kingdom-minded group to flip the script—from 85% consumers to 85% contributors. Develop books, courses, and curriculums in-house. Equip Saints for five-fold ministry with the full move of the Holy Spirit in operation. Build active discipleship programs that truly shepherd people and multiply disciples who transform culture.
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Church Planting Institute
Church Planting Institute
CPI pioneered by Dr. Hendrik Vorster, is a church planting and discipleship-making organization with a vision to equip those who are called, to plant disciple-making churches in all the nations of the world.
As part of this team, Phil Underwood equips church planters globally by providing training courses on the essentials of church planting and the process of discipleship, as well as an implementation plan to launch their God-given church planting dreams.
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Catalyst Options to Begin Your Forward Movement
Not Sure How to Decide? Book an Introductory Call with Phil to Discuss
(Phil's Calendar Link is at the Bottom of the Page)
Pastoral Conversation
Have a conundrum, confusing challenge, crisis in the making? Let's talk. Phil is trained in conflict resolution, mediation, strategy formation and just plain old listening without judgment. Lean on his heart, experience, and learning to strengthen you in ministry. Coaching pastors and leaders is in our heart, allowing them to discover how to hear and follow the Holy Spirit with confidence.
Guest Speaker
Phil is an experienced speaker, teacher and conference facilitator. Let's talk about your needs for a new voice, a forward motivator, and an apostolic gift of visitation and messaging for the needs of any group, church, or gathering. Whether a formal presentation, an interactive workshop, or a message directed from the heart of God and Scripture, Phil will serve you with focus and intentionality.
Cultural Architecture
Phil is an experienced facilitator with over three decades of experience leading congregations in impact, presence, and service through building a mission culture.
Develop your congregation to a place of influence in your city or community at large with the power of care, compassion, and concern. The question we want to answer is, "How do those outside your walls experience your presence?"
Church, What Is That?
Have an exploratory and examining conversation with local church influencers, volunteers, and team members about your role as the expression of Jesus' life in your community as a corporate presence and individual connectors to the Kingdom of God. Phil facilitates this session of 90 to 120 minutes to bring light and license to our role as a mission station of God's love among our neighbors and each other in our faith community.
Wake Up Workshop
As a veteran presenter of the Awaken workshop, Phil has seen women and men on three continents and in multiple states wake up to their divine design, ordained purpose, and biblical identity by spending a day with the Holy Spirit in seeking and seeing the revelation of God over the timeline of life. In the Awaken workshop we discover that God never wastes our pain and we are more than overcomers, to real soul gain through Jesus Christ who loves us and gave himself for us.
Leadershift Seminars
As a certified leadership development consultant with
The John Maxwell Team, Phil has
a number of seminars, learning experiences, and courses designed with John and our staff to share with your congregation, team, and staff, lifting them in vision and service.
Some of the offerings include Leadership Gold
Becoming a Person of Influence
15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
Real Success.
Contact us today about additional offerings and growing your key influencers and gatekeepers.