Residency Construction

Who this is for

• Sending-church pastors building their first residency.
• Church-planting network leaders rebuilding a residency that isn't sending.
• Larger churches with a residency that's really an internship in disguise.

What we do

I've built residencies for our own church and for churches all over the country. We start with a five-part residency scorecard: candidate assessment, funding model, competencies, evaluation rhythm, and sending pathway.

Then we build what's missing. Job description with real competencies. Funding stack that actually pays your resident. A cadence of evaluation your sending team can carry. And a defined pathway — including how you route residents into Send Network Apprenticeship, SBTC Internship, and other endorsement tracks when it fits.

Monthly working sessions with you and your sending team. Between sessions, I review your artifacts — application, competencies rubric, milestone documents — and give you red-line feedback.

What you walk out with

• A residency your sending team can actually run — not a document that sits in a drawer.
• A candidate assessment your elders will trust.
• A funding model that doesn't collapse the church budget.
• A defined pathway from resident → assessed candidate → sent planter.