Cohort Experience

Men’s Ministry Catalyst was founded in 1981.

• We are committed to fulfilling the Great Commission to go and make disciples who make disciples in a relational environment.
• We do this by equipping churches and denominations with biblically based resources, counsel, and services to help them create or expand an engaging ministry to men.
• This ministry will help them raise authentic disciples of Christ who passionately pursue God and are willing to mimic Jesus by making disciples.
• Men’s Ministry Catalyst workers will endeavor to live godly lives that will have a positive impact in their churches, their homes, the marketplace, and the community.
• To do this, churches need the assistance of godly leaders who can train and lead others on how to take advantage of the MMC resources, strategic plans, and a unique engagement process. These models are tactical and culturally relevant to assist with developing lasting and impactful ministries for men.

Cohort Responsibilities

1. Complete the MMC Cohort Experience for ministry to men.
2. Be involved with the MMC ministry to men in your local church.
3. Participate in ongoing training and strategy sessions with MMC to reach the men of your church and your greater community.
4. Identify other leaders who can be involved in the MMC Cohort Experience and impact their local church.
5. Document your strategic mission for reaching the men in your local network, along with the men of your community.

Men’s Ministry Catalyst Responsibilities

1. Provide regular and ongoing communications and training.
2. Provide resources to you, including books, networking, expertise, and workbooks.
3. Upon completion of your experience, you will receive a Certificate of Achievement, a Cohort Experience polo shirt, and a Coffee mug from MMC.
4. We will encourage your pastor(s) to officially recognize and install the Cohort on his Leadership Team.

The Competencies Developed by These Leaders

• An understanding at a deep level of the impact on men today from a culture in chaos.
• An appreciation of why ministry to men is unique and can be a difficult challenge.
• Able to provide a written, culturally relevant mission statement for ministry to men in your region.
• Have an understanding of how to develop the structure you need to put into place for long-term ministry to men.
• Select from the many MMC resources and outside materials the best models to use for discipleship – reproducing spiritual mentors.
• Provide a written plan and understanding of how you are going to recruit, train, and duplicate leaders.

Guidelines for the Cohort

• Available for a once-a-month 2-hour Cohort Virtual Meeting.
• Read and apply God’s Word to the content MMC provides for your growth and ministry development.
• Identify and meet with church leaders in your community.
• Recruit other Cohorts from your network.
• Be able to conduct Ministry to Men training in your community.

Key Thoughts

• You will only grow other leaders as you commit to growing yourself.
• You will only grow the ministry as other leaders are developed under your guidance.
• Leaders are best developed in a relational community.
• A paradigm shift in how we develop our leaders
  • Transactional to Transformational
  • Content to Experience.
  • Due to how leaders are developed, your focus on making the complex simple is crucial.
• 60/30/10 Rule.
  • 60% Experiential
  • 30% Coaching
  • 10% informational

Journey Each Month

• Discover – through the work you do each month, you will realize new insights and the beginning of a pathway that will impact the lives of the men in your purview.
• Develop – your ability to lead and impact leaders of men by putting into practice that which you are learning from your MMC experiences and each other.
• Determine – what is next and what changes you should make in your approach based on a review of the progress you are making.
• Duplicate – you and your leaders must find other leaders so you can multiply your reach. Leaders making leaders can impact the world for Jesus Christ. Ultimately, the test is whether you are adding or reproducing leaders.

Processes and Supporting Resources

• Understanding the makeup of men today
  • The Watchman – Grassi
  • The Men We Need – Hansen
• Understanding Ministry to Men and overcoming the challenges that make it so difficult
  • The Spiritual Mentor – Grassi
  • Pastoring Men – Morely
  • Overcoming Barriers Men Face – Grassi
• Developing Mission, Values, and Goals for your ministry to men
  • Homework will be researching and writing Mission, Value, and Goal statements for your ministry to men.
• Recruit, train, and duplicate leaders
  • Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 – Maxwell
  • MMC Tools
• To develop the structure that is needed for long-term ministry.
  • MMC Model of an Engaging Ministry to Men
• Select a Discipleship Model that you will use going forward – Disciples Who Make Disciples.
  • Disciple Making Culture – Brandon Guindon
  • Relational Discipleship Network: rdn.org

Additional Resources

(Optional – On Your Own)

• Finishing Well, Finishing Strong – Dr. Jim Grassi
• Beside Still Waters – Dr. Jim Grassi
• Act Like Men – Dr. Jim Grassi
• Discipleshift – Jim Putman
• What Makes a Man – Coach Bill McCartney, Promise Keepers Founder
• Raising a Modern Day Knight – Robert Lewis
• No Man Left Behind – Pat Morley
• 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership – Maxwell
• Saving Our Sons – Michael Gurian
• How to Disciple Men – National Coalition of Ministries to Men
• Manhood Restored – Eric Mason