Ready build intergenerational mentoring relationships in your church?

Let Generation Spark help your church become a place where everyone can find connection.

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Generation Spark

Apply here for the 2025-2026 cohort.

Key benefits of spiritual mentoring for churches

  • Keep youth and young adults involved in church beyond high school graduation.
  • Fully integrate a new generation into the life and leadership of the church.
  • Learn from and about each other through intergenerational relationships.
  • Skip the awkward stage of forming intergenerational relationships with built-in structure and shared purpose.

Want to apply for

the Generation Spark process?

Congregational Expectations:

  • Team point person
  • Congregational team of 3-4 participants who can lead within congregation
  • $2,000 price for congregation 150 members or less
  • Attend all relevant training (4 mentoring 101 zoom calls) and necessary monthly coaching calls

Cohort Includes:

 

  • Generation Spark Pre & Post Congregational Assessment
  • Live Webinar Trainings
  • 1 Year of Personalized Team Coaching
  • 2 Years of access to Online Asynchronous Training Materials
  • A In-Person learning and collaboration event
  • Supplement resources that include director handbook, mentor/mentee journal, safe church supplemental policy, etc.

Timeline

  • May 2025 – October 2025: Congregational Recruitment, Generation Spark congregational interviews and congregational applications
  • November 2025: Cohort begins with Opening webinar and subsequent mentoring 101 zoom calls (4)
  • November 2025 – Feb 2026: Mentoring 101
  • Feb 2026 – March 2026: Mentoring 201
  • March 19-21, 2026: In-Person Event (Grand Rapids, MI)
  • March 2026- April 2026: Mentoring 301

Financial Investment

  • $2,000 price for congregation 150 members or less
    • Additional 500 for every 50 members
  • Cohort costs include all printed and digital materials for implementation Generation Spark, in person retreat costs (excludes transportation), and congregational leadership coaching.
  • Scholarships are offered to churches that are a part of the Reformed Church in America and Christian Reformed Church in America denominations.
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