An on-demand course to help you design an Engagement Pathway that makes discipleship possible.
Align Your Ministries
Unlock Spiritual Growth
Accelerate Church Growth
Is your church suffering from an unclear assimilation system?
🤷♂️ Guests don’t know what you want them to do
⏳ People have to wait months before taking the right next step
🍿 Congregants feel more like consumers than participants
🤔 You're seeing new guests, but attendance isn’t growing
🪫 Teams never have enough volunteers
📉 Small groups aren’t tracking with attendance growth
🗺️ Your ministries live in detached silos
🫠 You can’t tell if what you’re doing is “working”
This will help you create an engagement pathway that’s unique to your church’s culture and your people’s needs.
Meet Your Guide
Greg Curtis, Eastside Christian Church
This course represents the best thinking and practices of many church leaders, successful authors, and its principles have been road-tested by me in churches that range in size from 30 people to 22,000 is attendance, and across 11 countries on 5 continents.
I had to make sure these assimilation principles transcended culture, size and context. Everything in it has been informed by things I have actually done and helped others do, with deeply practical learnings from both successes and failures over years of pastoring in one of the fastest growing churches in the country.
See you on the climb.
What is an unclear assimilation strategy costing you?
The gold standard of assimilation is at least 1 out of 4 guests finding their place as a connected, serving member.
How does your church stack up?
Is your strategy getting some results,
but taking too much out of your team? 😮💨
Are guests having a great experience,
but never taking steps toward commitment? 🤕
You have amazing ministries,
but people aren’t becoming a part of them 😑
You have an engaged core of givers,
but more people aren’t stepping up to help 😩
Do you have great environments,
but can’t stop burning out volunteers? 🥵
Are you wasting your team’s time and energy
constantly reinventing the wheel? 😵💫
Here’s the secret that no one is talking about:
assimilation is NOT a ministry or a department in your church.
It’s not just another organ in the body that fights other organs for resources, time, and attention.
Assimilation is the circulatory system that constantly brings new blood to every organ.
You can finally stop
reinventing the wheel.
The Climbing the Assimilayas Video Course is jam-packed with principles and tools that have worked for churches as small as 30 and as big as 22,000 across 11 different countries.
6 sessions of highly specific and paradigm-shifting video content
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20+ documents, templates, and resources that you can steal
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3-months free access to the Sherpa Coaching Community
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Free One-on-One Coaching Session for you (or your team)
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Lifetime access to the content (including future updates)
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01 // Assimilation and Spiritual Formation
you can’t disciple an unconnected person
the 10 stages of the spiritual formation cycle
environmental architecture
touch points between each stage of growth
the importance of milestones in spiritual growth
02 // How to Automate and Measure Assimilation
healthy church engagement ratios
assessing your current processes
are automated processes unspiritual?
healthy assimilation and placement ratios
setting realistic goals for progress
03 // Creating Your One Place
assessing greatest strength and vulnerability in your 4 Ps
designing worship services and environments for conversation
how to get more guests’ contact information
dialing in your connection card
choosing a new guest gift
announcements that actually work
One Place volunteers and training
04 // Creating Your One Program
determining the purpose of your One Program
creating content that’s FOR your people
getting people to show up after visiting your One Place
rhythms and methods that keep momentum but don’t kill you
One Program volunteers and training
creating an experience (instead of a class)
05 // Creating Your Volunteer Placement Process
church wide alignment for onboarding standards
the red/yellow/green light volunteer system
making sense of your org chart
creating effective on-ramps
gathering data on volunteer engagement
06 // Creating Your Small Group Placement Process
dialing in your groups system
clarifying group leader qualifications
attaching group leader training to your One Program
examples of small group on-ramps inside and outside your One Program
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In this video course you will…
Explore the power of assimilation in the making of a Christ follower
Discover the Sherpa style of leadership and how it unleashes that power
Identify vulnerabilities in your church's current assimilation process
Form 1 to 4 next steps to eliminate those vulnerabilities
Learn new processes to move toward a 1 out of 4 guest assimilation rate
Hear how to create environments guests will love
Learn simple but powerful measurements to track and report on your progress in connecting and growing new people to your church
Leverage the Power of Belonging while taking a new look at your church's concept of "membership"
Hear a more effective process for onboarding volunteers
Create and sustain a healthy volunteer culture
Explore ways to use every kind of person as a volunteer (including non-believers, children & teens, and those still healing from broken circumstances and poor choices)
Hear some strategic shifts in how to launch small groups and make Christ Followers
Cast a new vision of spiritual maturity that can change the game when it comes to assimilation and personal growth
Form a month-by-month plan for implementing a successful assimilation process for the next 4 to 12 months
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The Sherpa Coaching Community is an online connecting place for pastors and church staff just like you, all ready to share ideas and help each other grow.
But it’s also much more than that! We offer unlimited coaching through this community—you post it, we respond! And since we restrict personalized coaching to this community only, engaging is the best way to get the most out of the video course.
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Yes, you can get individual access for your whole team! After you purchase the Video Course, just fill out this form to request a unique coupon code so each team member can get access for just $47.
PS - they’ll also get personal access to the Sherpa Coaching Community for 3 months!
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If you’ve got a team that is responsible for assimilation, or even just a few key volunteers who will play a big role, we highly suggest going through the whole thing with them!
Each of the 6 sessions range from 25-45 minutes in length. First consider whether you want to watch together or individually beforehand.
Each session has discussion questions for you to cover with your team, so you can start there as you grasp the initial concepts.
The course runs in tandem with the free 63-point checklist—we’ll guide you through steps to create your Sherpa Action Plan! At every meeting, don’t stop with the ideas - start setting deadlines and assigning work! This is not a conceptual or educational course — it’s designed to put you in motion right away!
Don’t just set individual deadlines, either—set your sights on the next Easter, Fall Kick-Off, or Christmas so you have a high-level goal you’re all chasing!
We suggest going through weekly so you don’t get bogged down in the details before getting the big picture in your mind! And if you really want to knock it out and create some momentum… plan a one-day retreat and knock the whole thing out!
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Everything we could think of! Here are some highlights:
Spiritual growth milestones PDFs for you to use and share
Church health and assimilation ratios calculator
Sample membership declaration
Handwritten note templates
Connect Card field guide
Tips and Tricks for Identifying and Interacting with Guests
One Program Weekly Scorecard
Volunteer Placement Qualifications
Key assimilation volunteer job descriptions
FAQ
Rich Birch, Founder of unSeminary
"Greg is the best — he knows his stuff. Every time we're chatting I have my notebook out because I'm learning from him on all things assimilation. Everything he does is full of practical help wrapped up in a winsome package.”
Brian Vaughan, Grace Church
“This Video Course was EXACTLY what I needed to help me with vision and strategy for my new role in engagement... and I'm loving every minute of it.”
[12,000+ in attendance at 2 campuses]
Marti Horne, Damascus Road Community Church
“Our staff team watched the videos in this course several times through! There is so much wisdom in what Greg has to share about engaging new guests. No matter where you are in the process, I highly recommend this course!”
[1,500 in attendance]
Gene Appel, Senior Pastor at Eastside Church
“Want to connect 1 out of 4 visitors in your church? Eastside's assimilation guru Greg Curtis can show you how. Churches of all sizes all over the country are benefiting from his video course.”
[10,000+ in attendance at 4 campuses]
Jon Thomas, St. John Lutheran Church
“We’ve taken countless notes, had great discussions, and are excited about making changes to our process. We are all impressed with the depth of material and the conversation that is fostered. Worth every penny.”
[Mansfield TX]
Ben Walker, Lead Pastor at Story Church
“This system helped us discover our next 2 musicians, office admin, caterer, event coordinator, and a social media marketer. Absolutely blown away by the assimilation gold that Greg put into the CTA Video Course. You have to get it.”
[church plant, New Zealand]
