Entrust

Entrust exists to equip Christian leaders worldwide by providing biblical life-changing skills to address the critical questions specific to their communities. Our mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. We come alongside international and indigenous ministries and local churches to help them create training that will produce locally sustainable movements of transformation. Because obeying the Great Commission looks different in different cultures, our training initiatives vary greatly from place to place. Yet each initiative aims toward the same goal: multiplying leaders for multiplying churches.

Multiplying leaders for multiplying churches.

Goal One: Develop and adapt leadership training to every Entrust target group culture, identifying and biblically addressing the local leader’s most pressing contextual challenges to the gospel.

Goal Two: Networks creating contextual and transformative training Developing partnerships with likeminded people/groups, promoting local contextual training.

Goal Three: Staffing explosion: indigenous, volunteers, field staff A significant addition of new staff in the US and overseas, into new and existing ministries and fields as directed by God and sound planning.

Engaged an outside facilitator to mentor Entrust's CEO in leading an international, multi-cultural organization adapting to a rapidly changing environment and global context.

In 2019, our core module training was being adapted for an online format. When the pandemic forced everything to a remote format in March 2020, the content was ready to provide online training, and the process to train new facilitators was already happening. Small group facilitated leadership training continued, though in an online format rather than in-person. This expanded the ability for new groups to start made up of widely dispersed participants. Most of the training now consists of a blended approach with some parts online and some parts in-person. In some countries, people went into survival mode and thus the training was modified to provide economic and practical help whenever possible. In the office, we complied with state and federal COVID-19 guidelines and reduced the in-person staff to essential workers. Most of our staff were already equipped to work remotely so there was little productive impact when that became the standard. As guidelines eased, most of the office staff have continued with a blend of remote and in-person leadership training and/or time at the office.