North American Baptists, Inc.

Sister-Church Partnership Orientation
2026-07-18 09:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Christ Community Church, 8016 746th St. E, Pyuallup, WA, 98372, United States
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The context for a global missional lifestyle is to be found not in independent single church efforts (short-term mission and otherwise) here and there in the world but in partnering in each other’s communities and networks globally for the long-term.
Defined in this way, sister-church partnerships, with their intended focus on long-term relationships first and foremost, present churches with a consistent way to apply missional living on a global scale. If you are a pastor or a church leader who is passionate about giving your church opportunities to live missionally in your own community, think about how a relationship-based approach would look lived out in your community.
The first step in the process for a church/ministry partnership is taking part in a Sister-Church Partnership Orientation. This four-hour session focuses on cross-cultural understanding and education for pastors, staff, and church/ministry leaders. It will help you understand how to lead your church to participate in long-term, cross-cultural, relationship-based, mutual partnerships to empower everyone involved.
This orientation is being hosted by Christ Community Baptist Church in Puyallup, Washington, on July 18, 9:00–1:00. Check out the flyer for more information.

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Fit Assessment: August 2026
2026-08-11 09:00 - 2026-08-13 11:00 (America/Edmonton) | Heartland Community Church, 3400 Weymouth Road, Medina, OH, 44256, United States
What is Fit Assessment?
NAB’s Fit Assessment is a multi-step process that delivers insights to any current or potential missionary, church planter, or revitalization pastor, reporting on their “fit” for the ministry they are endeavoring to engage. Read more about our proven methods and tools here.
If you’re interested in beginning the Fit Assessment process, your first step is completing the online application, either in English or in Spanish.

Is there an in-person component of Fit Assessment?
To complete the NAB Fit Assessment, candidates meet together for a multi-day, in-person experience hosted by a diversity of trained leaders. These three days together help us communally discern your best next step.

There is an upcoming Fit Assessment taking place August 11–13 in Medina, Ohio (outside Cleveland).
Contact Carissa Steinhart with any questions!

Year of Equipping
2026-08-15
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Year of Equipping consists of three modules, each comprised of two Zoom calls and one in-person meeting, in which we read and process the missional character of God, our formation as we join him on mission, and the ways we live into this identity as a community of God’s people on mission.
The first session is in September and will be online. The first in-person gathering will take place in October.
We are seeking younger leaders – those between the ages of 20 and 40 – to participate in this cohort.
If you are interested, or you know someone who might be, reach out to Wayne Stapleton.
The deadline for applications is August 15, but the entire cohort takes place over a nine-month period beginning in September.

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Sending Church Cohort
2026-09-15 17:00 - 2026-09-16 20:00 (America/Edmonton) | Central Baptist Church, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The NAB’s Sending Church Cohort is a peer-led cohort that meets twice in one year on location at two of our sending churches to learn from their triumphs and mistakes in sending out multipliers. Stu Streeter, VP of Church Multiplication and Ministry Advancement, hosts the gathering, but the core of training, discussion, and workshopping is led by the pastors and leaders of the host churches. This is an opportunity to learn at the feet of NAB leaders who are actively sending out church plants, campus launches, and revitalization efforts.
The first gathering of this year’s Sending Church Cohort took place in Fargo, North Dakota, in April, where we learned from Pastor Jake Peterson of River City Church, who is working alongside Jackson Hankey to plant a new congregation in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
The second gathering, which takes place September 15–16 in Edmonton, Alberta, will be led by Pastor Jeremy Putz of Central Baptist, which has used the multi-site model to great effect in their city. Currently, they are working on their fourth and fifth sites in the area. Their fourth site, which is set to launch this year, is an extraordinary story of a downtown historic site that sat largely empty for sometime. They are set to revive the space and the downtown life in the process.
We are so committed to the process that the NAB International Office covers all the cost of the cohort once you arrive in the host city. Simply, let us know you’re coming through the link below, and who you are bringing from your church to learn with you, and we will take it from there. If you need more than two hotel rooms for your church’s representatives, please reach out soon so we can explore options with you.
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Reframe: Equipping Your Congregation for Evangelism
2026-09-16 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Reframe is a four-week, online training for pastors and leaders to help you assess your congregation’s evangelism readiness. This training will provide an evaluative framework to help you to recognize gaps you may need to fill and distortions you will want to correct, and it will provide a clearer path forward toward helping your church become more evangelistically faithful.
Reframe is not a training that will focus on how to better do evangelism but instead will focus on how to be evangelistic.

How well equipped is your congregation for the ministry of evangelism?
How do you evaluate your church’s health in that regard?
How would you identify equipping gaps in your congregation’s evangelistic faithfulness?

Each training consists of an online, 90-minute session that will take place across four consecutive Wednesdays starting September 16.
Dates: September 16, 23, & 30; October 7 (Wednesdays)
Time: 10:00–11:30 a.m. (Pacific)
Training is free for NAB ministry leaders. For more information, connect with Deb Judas.

Reframe Workshop
Four-week online training to help you assess your evangelistic equipping efforts.

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Online Short-Term Mission Leader Workshop
2026-09-18 19:00 - 2026-09-19 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
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If you are a leader planning to lead a short-term mission, this online workshop is designed to train you in best practices for short-term missions. This includes:

Missional theology and the goal of short-term mission
Best practices in leading a short-term mission
The timeline of a short-term mission team/trip
What it looks like serving with NAB Gateway

This workshop spans two days:
7:00 – 9:30 p.m. (Central) on Friday, September 18
9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Central) on Saturday, September 19
This training will be led by Gateway Director Randy Schmor. Randy has led and trained short-term mission teams for over two decades. He is on the board of Mission Excellence and uses these guidelines to empower others with the knowledge and skills of how to build appropriate and thriving global partnerships.
You can find out more about NAB Gateway, including the various trainings available, by visiting nabonmission.org/get-involved/nab-gateway, or simply register for the training at the link below.
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International Missions Pop-Up
2026-09-30 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | 18th Street Church, 2400 W. 18th Street, Sioux Falls, SD, 57104, United States
Southeastern South Dakota and Northwest Iowa churches of the NAB are cordially invited to an International Mission Pop-Up. This event is for all ages!
Experience an evening of engaging conversation and connections around international missions. Hear from NAB missionaries Brandon and Marci Jones from Brazil and Shan Reed, NAB mobilization director and former NAB missionary to Japan.
It can be easy for our churches to feel isolated or as if what we do doesn’t seem to make any kind of global impact, particularly when it comes to the Kingdom efforts regarding international missions. This Pop-Up will help your church grasp the larger picture of NAB International Missions, help connect you with other local NAB churches who share a similar interest in missions, and hopefully promote awareness of and engagement with NAB International Missions and missionaries.
This pop-event will take place 6:30–8:00 p.m. on September 30, 2026, at 18th Street Church (formerly Trinity Baptist Church) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Refreshments will be served.

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Blue Ocean 26/27
2026-10-20 - 2026-10-23
The 2026/2027 cohort of Blue Ocean is now accepting applications.

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Blue Ocean is a transformative one-year learning experience. You’ll be part of a cohort that journeys together throughout the year, exploring what it means to join God on mission, be formed into the character of Christ, and dwell in your neighborhood – sharing and living out the Gospel. This program includes three in-person learning modules, each held in a different location:

Vancouver, British Columbia, October 20–23, 2026.
Sacramento, California, February 2–5, 2027.
TBD, May 4–7, 2027.

Participants come from across North America, each of whom serve in leadership roles at NAB churches of varying sizes and ministry styles.
Our modules are thoughtfully designed to integrate teaching, conversation, hands-on activities, shared experiences, and meals, creating a holistic and immersive experience.
Find out more about Blue Ocean on the NAB website. Or reach out to Deb Judas with any questions.

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