Discover Where You Are. Imagine Who You Can Become.
Whether you're a pastor, parent, teacher, healthcare professional, volunteer, or simply someone seeking to grow in faith, you're already ministering to others.
Minister's Helper exists to help you discover where you are, grow in faith, and faithfully live out your unique ministry.
Start Here
Everything below is completely free.
Choose one place to begin your journey.
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Take the Christian Assessment
Discover where you are across five areas of faithful living and identify your next step.
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Read the First Chapter
Explore the opening chapter of Jesus. Now What? and discover the vision behind the Minister's Helper journey.
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Begin the Prayer Journey
Experience a simple introduction to PURPOSE Journaling and begin building a daily rhythm of prayer.
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Join the Prayer Community
Connect with others seeking to grow through encouragement, prayer, and shared faith.
Discover the Five Areas
Healthy ministry grows in five connected areas.
Body
Serve with strength.
Mind
Grow in wisdom.
Spirit
Live with God.
Self
Lead from wholeness.
Others
Love faithfully.
Together these five areas provide a simple way to understand your strengths, recognize opportunities for growth, and take your next faithful step.
What Happens Next?
1. Discover
Discover where you are.
Every journey begins with honesty.
Through the Christian Assessment and your first free resources, you'll gain a clearer picture of your strengths, your opportunities for growth, and where God may already be at work in your life.
2: Practice
Build life-giving habits.
Growth doesn't happen all at once.
Develop simple rhythms of prayer, reflection, Scripture, and journaling that help your faith become part of everyday life.
3: Grow
Learn with intention.
As you continue your journey, explore books, courses, workshops, and guided learning experiences designed to help you grow in body, mind, spirit, self, and others.
4: Belong
Grow alongside others.
Faith was never meant to be lived alone.
Join a community of people who are discovering, practicing, encouraging, and serving together as they become the ministers God created them to be.
Be of Great courage
Encouragement
You don't have to become someone else.
You simply need to discover where God is already at work in you and take your next faithful step.
Testimonials
Each of these people have taken the Christian assessment and taken their next steps.
"It can benefit us all and make the world a better place."
"The assessment tool really had me learn a lot about myself and learn some new things." - Holly Neal
"Thanks, Linda, for letting me share."
"I thank Linda so much for offering that to us through her book, "Jesus. Now What?." - Deborah Poole
"The theme of new beginnings and replanting was exactly what we needed for our unit."
"I personally have been inspired to try journaling again." - Linda Swearingen
"I plan to get into this book Jesus. Now What? to see how it can and will help me."
"I definitely want to have this whole thought given to all of my friends and family to help them better their lives and what they're searching for." - Mary Ann Peters
Your Invitation
Your journey begins today.
Take one small step.
God will walk the rest of the journey with you.
Every free resource leads somewhere
Each offer below is connected to one of our four 8-week cohort experiences. Start free, go deeper when you’re ready — and know that the community membership ties it all together.
Attend the free seminar. Upon registration you get a free digital copy of the book Be One of The Five on living a holistic and balanced life of faith.
Take the free Christian Assessment to discover how aligned you are at life centered in light of in body, mind, spirit, self, and other.
Read the blog designed to offer you help along life's journey. Gain ongoing insight into facing real-life challenges and the great joys of living to the fullest.
Listen to the podcast that helps our community live and give with the heart and mind of Christ through stories, best practices, and self-reflection.
