1. There is no cost. All expenses are covered by a grant. Each participating congregation may apply for project funds up to $1,000 USD (about $1435 CAD).

2. Each church will form a team of 3-8 persons who will guide its participation in the cohort.

3. At least two members of this team will be present at all cohort activities as described above.

4. The council will be aware of the cohort’s purpose and activities and will give their official endorsement.

The cohort leadership team will:

1. Organize all cohort activities.

2. Provide coaching.

3. Provide resources, including access to rich resource drive.

4. Serve as listeners, catalyzers and encouragers.

5. Be aware of common dynamics present in the participating

congregations.

The project seeks to honour these two realities:

1. Each congregation is unique.

2. There are identifiable patterns in intercultural ministry.

These two realities are honoured by recognizing that the presence of these identifiable patterns in each congregation are contextual, that is, they vary in strength and in the ways they intermingle with each other.

This project aspires to embody the reality that 14 congregations in the New Testament each receive a unique epistle – though there are common patterns present in all of them.

This is a sample schedule of the time commitment for participating in a cohort.

The cohort activities can be summarized as follows:

• Opening and closing retreat: SEPT and MAY.
• Bimonthly, full group 90 minute zoom calls in OCT, JAN, MARCH.
• Bimonthly conversations between each congregation and a cohort coach:
• SEPT, NOV, FEB, APRIL

Not counting the two retreats, the commitment averages to about one hour a

month

• Sharing the stories of what we are doing and what we are learning, celebrating what the Lord is doing.
• Sharing the questions and challenges that arise from our ministries.
• Learning from knowledge holders who have navigated these roads ahead of us.
• Building a community together; finding within that community others whose experiences are similar to our own, and hosting ad hoc conversations with those churches to facilitate peer learning.
• Other activities that emerge as the cohort develops.

This is a learning community in which we recognize that all participants share a common reality (becoming multicultural) while each church needs to address this common reality in its own unique ways.