Effective Preaching: Mentoring Cohorts

Join one of Galen’s year-long Preaching Mentorship Cohorts to become a more engaging, confident, and effective communicator.

A Better Approach to your Development

We all should constantly be growing, honoring our skills, and developing our craft. Yet, most churches don’t invest in their pastors to grow in their most visible and important work – preaching.

Unlike attending a conference once a year, this Preaching Mentorship helps you grow throughout the year through conversations, learning, feedback, and mentoring. This growth and development in preaching will transform your ability to effectively communicate for the long haul of ministry.

These cohorts focus specifically on the craft of preaching, which is arguably the most essential skill for a pastor to develop. A Preaching Mentorship Cohort promises growth in the specific category of preaching while also caring for the pastor through a relational approach of mentoring.

What is Included in a Preaching Mentorship Cohort?

• 12 monthly online coaching calls
• A year of mentorship from Galen
• Teaching from world class proven communicators – John Maxwell and Andy Stanley
• Real-Time feedback from Galen on your sermons
• Encouragement, prayer, and feedback from peers

Why choose Galen as a preaching mentor?

Dr. Galen Ryman is a dynamic and compelling communicator, serving as the Lead Pastor at First Nazarene Church in the suburbs of Chicago. His teaching style reflects his personality and experience highlighting messages that are:

• Relevant and Relatable – While Galen’s messages are deep and theologically sound, they are always accessible for anyone exploring faith with practical application for anyone open to experimenting in growing their faith. 
• Transformational – Galen’s earned doctoral degree was in spiritual formation and his messages are tailored to build spiritual disciplines into the lives of those under his teaching with long-term theological formation in mind. 
• Highly Authentic – Galen’s mindset of “follow me as I follow Christ” comes through his teaching in a way that is highly authentic which has been the highest rated aspect of what Millennials (parents of young families) and Gen-Z (young adults) are looking for in a communicator.
• Proven to reach post-Christian skeptics – Galen’s context, the greater Chicago area, is full of educated, post-Christian critics who are skeptical about faith. Yet, First Nazarene has grown by more than 20% in the last three years under his preaching.

What happens in each monthly mentoring session?

• Personal care and encouragement
• Review of the previous month’s goals
• Mentorship and coaching conversation
• Review of assigned reading (John Maxwell or Andy Stanley)
• Goal setting for the following month 
• Prayer

What outcomes can I expect?

At the conclusion of your cohort experience, you will have learned to:

• Structure and shape your message in a way that lands with more impact leading to more life-change within your church.
• Preach your message with conviction and confidence.
• Preach more from the heart and less from your notes.
• Communicate effectively using the fine-tuned skills of the best public speakers.
• You will also have been spiritually encouraged, prayed for, and mentored throughout the year.

When Can I start?

What now?

Share your information below to set up a call with Galen to see if this would be a good fit for you, learn more, and interview for a position in the next cohort! You will also receive a one-page flier that can be presented to your board on why they should make this investment in you and in your preaching.