Incubator Collective Intensive
Incubator Collective Intensive
Academic Year 1: 2025-26
Cohort Overview
Welcome to our Incubator Collective Intensive for North America! Until now, the Incubator church planting program has trained church planters and replanters serving almost exclusively in New York City’s five boroughs, as well as New York City-facing urban centers. The program combines elements of City to City’s proven church planting curriculum with new insights from multicultural leaders who understand the nuances of ministry in urban contexts. We look forward to partnering with you to bring shalom to cities around the United States and Canada!
Meet Your Instructor
Robert Elkin,
Vice President, New York City
Robert Elkin provides strategic leadership of the NY Project and the New York Team towards the fulfillment of its vision, mission, and goals. He loves training and coaching church planters to start creative expressions of the kingdom of God and connecting them to work together for broader collective impact.
Robert has twelve years of church planting experience in NYC, so he knows firsthand both the thrilling breakthroughs and painful challenges involved in urban ministry. Robert and his wife Sarah live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with their endlessly curious son and fiercely independent daughter. They love exploring their diverse neighborhood and sharing lingering conversations with friends around the dinner table. Together they have learned to anticipate the unfolding story of God, and they live by this motto: Redemption Washes Backwards (Wait For It).
Meet Your Instructor
Michael Carrion,
Vice President, Movement Leadership
Serving as the VP of Church Planting and Leadership Development Michael oversees the NYC team prayerfully and discerningly recruiting, training and resourcing church planters called to plant healthy missional churches in the five boroughs of NYC. Michael has successfully planted several churches and charter schools across the South Bronx. He is a social justice activist, community organizer who has been nationally recognized for his work among the poor across the city. Prior to working with CTC Michael held appointments with the city of New York HRA/CAS and the Fedcap Group as the Senior Director of Workforce Development. As well as a prior role as the Deputy Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VRS). Michael is a native of the South Bronx and brings 30 years of urban pastoral ministry experience to the team.
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eBook
See below for the link to the Incubator Year One eBook for your reference and review. This contains all of the course materials for the year. It is organized by module and contains the module materials as well as any pre-reads for class discussion and tools for implementation.
Class Materials
PLEASE NOTE:
Based on speaker availability, some modules may not be sequential.
In order to prepare for sessions, please follow the class schedule below.
Homework Submissions
Policies and ScheduleProgram Policies
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To do this, simply click "Add to Google Calendar" (or the +) on the Google calendar below. Each invite contains important location information on class format, virtual or in-person.
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Because Incubator Collective is structured as a learning cohort, interaction with the content via class discussion is essential to maximizing your experience. Consequently, if you accumulate more than one absence, you may not be allowed to continue in the program. Please review the Class Schedule below, and notify us via email ([email protected]) if you anticipate being unable to attend any of these sessions.
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You will get out of this cohort as much as you put into it. Prepare by reading any recommended pre-class materials, participating in class discussions, and completing post-class homework assignments. It's worth the investment!
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The eBook includes all course content including pre-reading assignments, presentation decks, and tools for implementation of what you're learning. Please review this before class and come prepared to interact with the content and your classmates.
Program Schedule
We recommend integrating these dates into your personal calendar to stay on top of upcoming classes. Those who accumulate more than one unexcused absence may be asked to re-enroll when they are able to commit to this attendance standard.