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Recently, our leadership cohort of United Methodist bishops from the Classes of 2022 and 2024 traveled through England, bringing their two-year journey together to a close. We built the journey with partners from Goodmakers Society around a theme: Ways of Seeing.

A church opens its doors to young adults. Young adults open their hearts to children. Children discover relationships of trust and encouragement. And those relationships ripple outward into flourishing families and neighborhoods.

For those who lead, the list can feel especially relentless. And somewhere along the way, we can begin to believe that faithfulness means keeping up with all of it. But what if stopping is part of faithfulness, too?

Texas Methodist Foundation, in partnership with Wesleyan Impact Partners, announces the national expansion of Courageous Congregations Collaborate (C3), a transformative initiative equipping churches to clarify purpose, strengthen leadership, and deepen neighborhood engagement.

What if our full calendars leave little room for the conversations that matter? What if we're spending so much energy keeping programs running that we have less capacity to notice the people right in front of us?

For nearly five years, C3 has accompanied congregations as they practice discernment, adaptive leadership, and neighborhood-centered ministry. When we decided we wanted to offer a bilingual cohort, we could have just translated the participant materials into Spanish and called it good.