Our Engagements
We Don't Just Hand You a Book. We Walk With You.
Most church renewal programs give you information and leave you to figure out the rest. SCUSA locks arms and walks the road with you: for a full year, with a proven pathway, a community of pastors who understand the struggle, and a coach checking in every other week.
Our mission: to help pastors and churches accelerate church health through strategy and leadership.
TRUSTED BY
FLAGSHIP ENGAGEMENT
THE ONE-YEAR HEALTHY CHURCH COHORT
Five or six pastors. Twelve monthly sessions. A two-day kickoff retreat in Crawfordsville, Indiana. A Guide Pastor in your corner every other week. And at the end of the year? Your own customized five-year strategic plan, built by you and your leadership team together.
Our One-Year Healthy Church Cohort is a proven, sustained, relational journey through every vital area of church health, and it's already transforming churches across 21 states.
WHAT IS THE COHORT?
Our One-Year Healthy Church Cohort is a proven, sustained, relational journey through every vital area of church health, and it's already transforming churches across 21 states.
Five or six pastors. Twelve monthly sessions. A two-day kickoff retreat in Crawfordsville, Indiana. A Guide Pastor in your corner every other week. And at the end of the year? Your own customized five-year strategic plan, built by you and your leadership team together.
Testimonials
Don’t just take our word for it, listen to them!
Both organizational leaders and pastors agree: Small Church USA is on to something.
Testimonials
PASTORS WHO HAVE BEEN CHANGED
These pastors have gone through our program and left changed.
OHIO
Pastor Shawn Hurley
“Small Church USA has effectively empowered me to lead change in our church for God's glory by helping me identify how I can lead the church more effectively by being more assertive. The year-long journey was in depth and I am grateful to God for this organization and the work they are doing among local churches.”
Indiana
Pastor Larry Riley
“Small Church USA has effectively empowered me to lead change in our church for God's glory by helping me identify how I can lead the church more effectively by being more assertive. The year-long journey was in depth and I am grateful to God for this organization and the work they are doing among local churches.”
Missouri
Pastor Rob Hurtgen
“God used the content and friendship to reveal a broken spirit that was constraining my ability to be fully used by God. The SCUSA process has led to a renewed vision and an actionable structure for the pastoral ministry and the church I have been called to serve.”
St. Catherine, JAMAICA
Pastor Paul Mason
“This ministry helped me discover and apply some very important tools to improve the spiritual health of the church. Tools like the vision, mission and core values. With these, alone with the yearlong interaction, for the first time in my fifteenth years as Pastor, I am very confident about where we are going, why we are going and how to get there, as a church.”
Illinois
Pastor robert lapine
“We, as a local church, have 11 been presented with relevant insights to enable our church to make the needed changes we needed to make to which we had been blind. We are not yet where we want to be, but with SCUSA’s training we know the direction our church needs to take.”
IOWA
Pastor Shawn Hurley
“Our leadership team and our church are unified and motivated to move forward. I’m preaching through Nehemiah and connecting it to the revitalization process.”
london, England
Pastor Justin Rhoades
“I can say that, after attending the weekend training, it was personally very helpful and will make a huge impact on our church leaders as we walk through this journey over the next year. The leadership training was personally impactful because it not only provided information about my leadership style but also tangible, ongoing support through an equipping plan. I look forward to working through this next year with my cohort, guide pastor, and church leaders as we pursue an even healthier church than we have been blessed with.”
texas
Pastor Philip Scott
“This experience has been a tremendous blessing to me and my church. Terry Thompson and SCUSA helped me strengthen my leadership personally and helped us develop and guide our leadership team in the church. We have seen our church and its leadership grow healthier as a result.”
Michigan
Pastor Brian Algie
“SCUSA provides helpful resources to allow for important conversations to take place. Things like, the health of the pastor and his wife, the core (DNA) values of the church, and all of it beginning from a foundation of prayer with Christ as the head. Our church now has laid out clear DNA values that our people are excited about, and that gives us a tool to point others to, who want to learn more about our church body.”
Utah
Pastor brody olson
“Small Church USA encouraged me to take a fresh look at how I do ministry. Under the direction of Pastor Terry, we were given excellent resources and tools to help us build our skills. I benefited greatly from hearing the practices of fellow pastors that were far different from my own. I learned how to bring into alignment the church's mission and ministries. I got excited about developing leaders in my church.”
Our Process
Every cohort moves through the same five-phase pathway:
Evaluation
A clear-eyed look at where your church is right now.
Education
Biblical principles and proven leadership frameworks.
Participation
Engaging your leadership team and congregation in a shared vision.
activation
Building a real plan and putting it into motion.
celebration
Honoring what God does through His people.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
We’ve included as many resources as we can to help you accelerate healthy growth at your church.
Kickoff Retreat
3-nights lodging, meals, shuttle from Indianapolis Airport
12 Monthly Group Sessions
With your cohort, via Zoom
12 Monthly 1-on-1 coaching call
With your Guide Pastor, via Zoom
Integrus360™ Profile
Learn your constraints and debrief
The SCUSA ACceleration Playbook
12 Sessions + Multimedia Presentations
Pastoral development books
From Paul David Tripp and Tod Bolsinger
The Pastor’s Wife Survival Playbook
By Terry and Kelly Thompson (for your spouse)
A “Barnabas” team
An individual or couple assigned to pray for you and your family
5-Year Strategic Plan
Developed over the year-long engagement for your church specifically
WORTH THE INVESTMENT?
$6,000
No church pays full price. Scholarships are available through generous donors and denominational partners. Our goal that we regularly achieve is that no church pays more than $1,500. No church will ever be turned away due to financial hardship. Call us.
Our Engagements
The Healthy Church Conference
A focused, high-impact training day for pastors and church leaders. Terry Thompson brings the full SCUSA framework, the Five Vital Organs of a healthy church, the crisis-to-hope-to-strategy roadmap, and a clear pathway forward, directly to your network, convention, or association.
Ideal for denominational leaders, association directors, and church networks who want to equip multiple pastors at once.
YOU COULD HOST AT YOUR CHURCH!
The conference introduces the same biblical framework that anchors every SCUSA cohort. Pastors leave with renewed vision, practical tools, and the sense that they are not alone in the work. Many conference attendees go on to join a year-long cohort — but the conference stands on its own as a meaningful, actionable day.
Ready to take the next step?
Let’s find the right fit for your church.
Whether you're ready to apply for a cohort or just want to explore what's possible, we'd love to hear from you. Fill out the interest form and Terry or a team member will reach out personally.