I am really excited to head to Assessment Center next week.   The April roster has 11 Candidate Couples, 1 Observer, 10 Assessors and 3 ConvergeUSA Team members.
New Beginnings Community Church in Matthews, NC is going to be our host location.

1. The Converge Assessment Center is one of the oldest and most reliable in the country with 17 years under its belt.
2. Converge has a high rate of success in Church Planting, directly related to its world-class Assessment Center.
3. Many other denominations & para-church organizations have modeled their process after ours for example: Evangelical Covenant Church, Growing Healthy Churches, Green Lake, WI etc.
4. Converge has a high rate of success in Church Planting, directly related to its world-class Assessment Center.
5. Based on this intensive multi-day process, the team of assessors will pray, discuss, evaluate and collate their findings to give you the **** ***essment possible.

Heartland Church, Indianapolis, IN will host the next Assessment Center on June 22-26 Susan Ward is the Assessment Center Administrator Phone: (507) 766-3475
Email: susan@conve rgeusa.org

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Like skimming a book, this can produce the impression that everything is covered, but in reality, you aren’t completely there. How do you know you’re skimming?

• When you go from meeting to meeting without awareness of God.
• When you say “yes” to new commitments and expansions without properly following through on what you are already doing.
• When it is Friday and you realize you have not had enough time to allow the truth of what you are preaching to transform your own walk with Christ.
• When you avoid difficult decisions and truths because someone will be upset.
• When you muddle your way through a meeting because you have not clearly determined your goals and agenda.
• When you make a pastoral phone call or visit – resentfully.
• When you cannot stop thinking about the unfinished work at church when you are with your family.
• When you are too busy to reflect on your own heart or cultivate your own personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
• When you are not investing in your own personal growth and marriage.
• When you measure your success based on what other people say rather than your own internal values before God.

ConvergeUSA Assessment Center (formerly TeAmerica) is one of the longest running, most influential and highly trusted Church Planting Assessment Centers in the country. Under the leadership of Paul Johnson and then JD Pearring the Assessment Center touched some of the best church planters in the country. Now a new era for the Assessment Center has begun under the leadership of Dr. Curt Gruber and Marlan Mincks as they build on the solid foundation lay by their predecessors by upgrading and strengthening the process.

It is an intensive four day event staffed by multiple, trained assessors to encourage and observe Church Planting candidates.
It is an opportunity for candidates to preach, cast vision and work in team setting.
It is an opportunity for candidates to meet with counselors and assessors to prepare for life as a Church Planter.
It is a multi-day process where assessors will provide helpful and thorough assessment of Church Planting candidates.

Why Participate in an Assessment Center?
The ConvergeUSA Assessment Center is one of the oldest and reliable in the country with 17 years under its belt.
The ConvergeUSA has a high rate of success in Church Planting, directly related to its world-class Assessment Center.
Many other denominations & para church organizations have model their process after ours for example: Evangelical Covenant Church, Growing Healthy Churches, etc.
To find answers to your questions about your possible future involvement in Church Planting, and network with other couples sharing the same interest and passion.
Based on this intensive multi-day process, the team of assessors will pray, discuss, evaluate and collate their findings to give you the **** ***essment possible.

Who Can Participate?
Pastors in transition
Restart Pastors
Church Planters
Youth Pastors
Associate Pastors
Missionaries
Para-church workers
Second-career Lay Leaders

How Do I Sign Up?
To attend an Assessment Center, you will need to fill out an application.
First you have to established a relationship with one of our ConvergeUSA certified sending agencies, preferably in the region you are considering planting. They will provide you with additional details and application form.
Second, fill out application.
Third, engage in a pre-assessment interview.
Fourth, the sending agency will register you for the next scheduled Assessment Center.

Sending Agencies Protocol
This document will give you all the details you need for signing up a candidate for the ConvergeUSA Assessment Center
Click here to down load the Application Protocol