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AN ON-DEMAND COURSE TO HELP YOU DESIGN AN ENGAGEMENT PATHWAY THAT ACCELERATES CHURCH GROWTH

Connect More Guests • Align Your Ministries • Unlock Spiritual 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”

 
 

If so, this video course 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?

We all want to reach the lost, raise them up, and release them to do Kingdom work—but how effectively are you accomplishing that goal? The gold standard of assimilation is every 1 out of 4 guests finding their place as a connected, serving member. How do you 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

✅ Powerful discussion questions for you and your team

✅ 20+ documents, templates, and resources that you can steal

✅ 3-months free access to the Sherpa Coaching Community

✅ Free One-on-One Coaching Session for you (or your team)

✅ Lifetime access to the content (including future updates)

 
 
 
 
 
 

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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 Group Coaching Community for 3 months!

  • 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!

  • 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 for Identifying and Interacting with Guests

    • One Program Weekly Scorecards

    • Volunteer Placement Qualifications

    • Key assimilation volunteer job descriptions

 
 
 
 

Rich Birch, Founder of unSeminary

"Greg is the best. He's such a kind and caring soul. PLUS 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. This video course will give you access to all that."

 
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Gene Appel, Senior Pastor at Eastside Christian 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]

 
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Ben Walker, Lead Pastor at Story Church (New Zealand)

“What was crazy was how the Next Steps format helped us discover our next 2 musicians, our next office admin, our next caterer, event coordinator, and a marketer that wants to help us take our social media to a whole new level. This list goes on. Absolutely blown away by the assimilation gold that Greg put into the Climbing the Assimilayas Video Course. You have to get it.”

[church plant]

 

Marti Horne, Damascus Road Community Church

“We are a single campus church of 1,500 with 3 services each weekend. 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, and we carefully considered how the ideas in the video could be incorporated into our plan. No matter where you are in the process, I highly recommend these videos!”

[1,500 in attendance]

 

Nathan Lewis, Compass Christian Church

“I just wanted to say another huge thank you for taking time to walk me through how to best get people connected to the body of Christ! I Just finished session one of your video course and can’t wait to move on, start implementing, and start seeing people connect to God and Compass in a whole new way. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!”

[6500 in attendance at 5 campuses]

 
 
 
 

Ready to help 1 out of 4 guests Climb the Assimilayas?