Join the Training Circle

Cultivate community around the presence of Jesus right where you are, through our online training.

People are hungry for something deeper: real connection, authentic community, and a lived experience of God’s presence.

What if discipleship looked more like family? What if meaningful spiritual community could begin right where you already are—around your kitchen table, in a dorm room, with neighbors, friends, or people from your church?

The Training Circle is a 4-week, self-paced course designed to help you cultivate a simpler, Spirit-led way of following Jesus with others.

This is for you if...

  • You long for deeper spiritual connection and want to cultivate it with others.

  • You want to center your life and relationships around the presence of Jesus.

  • You want to see the Spirit of God actively at work in your community.

  • You want simple, reproducible ways to disciple others without depending on curriculum.

  • You want to equip leaders to cultivate discipleship and community beyond the walls of a church building.

  • You’re ready to move from simply consuming to actively participating.

Choose Your Path

We’ve created two ways to experience the Training Circle.

Training Circle Core gives you everything you need to cultivate a Jesus-centered community.

Training Circle Premium includes everything in Core, plus additional training and resources for starting, leading, and multiplying house churches.

The Training Circle Core has:

  • 30+ hours of teaching, practices, and resources. Most participants complete one lesson a day, 5 days a week to complete the course in 4 weeks.

  • Connection within the global Facebook community

  • Simple and replicable frameworks for discipleship that you can use for the rest of your life.

  • WEEK 1: THE VISION // A New Kind Of Community

    • Lesson 1: WATCH // Introduction (5 minutes)

    • Lesson 1: READ // Before we begin (10 minutes)

    • Lesson 1: PRACTICE // Centering Prayer (20 minutes)

    • Lesson 2: WATCH // Vision Video (30 minutes)

    • Lesson 3: LISTEN // Titles to Giftings (50 minutes)

    • Lesson 4: PRACTICE // Know your gifting (30-45 minutes)

    • Lesson 5: READ // What is the Church? (30 minutes)

    • Bonus: READ// Decentralized Movements (20 minutes)

    WEEK 2: THE CENTER // Around the Presence of Jesus

    • Lesson 1: WATCH // Introduction (5 minutes)

    • Lesson 1: WATCH // Part 1 - The Presence of God - David Legge (20 minutes)

    • Lesson 2: WATCH // Part 2 - The Presence of God - David Legge (15 minutes)

    • WATCH // Part 3 - The Presence of God - David Legge (15 minutes)

    • WATCH // Part 4 - The Presence of God - David Legge (12 minutes)

    • Lesson 5: WATCH // Part 5 - The Presence of God - David Legge (20 minutes)

    • Lesson 5: READ // Simplicity (15-20 minutes)

    • Bonus: PRACTICE // Psalm 27 (30 minutes)

    WEEK 3: THE WAY // The Four Shifts

    • Lesson 1: WATCH // Introduction (5 minutes)

    • Lesson 1: WATCH // Isolation to Family: Nic's Story (5 minutes)

    • Lesson 1: READ // Finding your People (10 minutes)

    • Lesson 1: PRACTICE // The 3/12/72 Tool (15 minutes)

    • Lesson 2: WATCH // Inspiration from South Asia (4 minutes)

    • Lesson 2: LISTEN // Institutional to Relational (45 minutes)

    • BONUS: LISTEN & PRACTICE // Neighborhood Prayer Walk

    • Lesson 3: LISTEN // Information to Transformation (33 minutes)

    • Bonus: READ // Isolation to Family (20 minutes)

    • Lesson 3: WATCH // Information to Transformation - Paul's story (6 minutes)

    • Lesson 3: WATCH // Zac's Story (2 minutes)

    • Bonus: READ // Information to Transformation (20 minutes)

    • Bonus: LISTEN // Hearing God's Voice (15-62 minutes)

    • Lesson 4: WATCH // Zach Meerkreebs from the Asbury Outpouring (6 minutes)

    • Lesson 4: LISTEN // Spectators to Participants with Kathryn Maack (5 min)

    • Lesson 4: WATCH // Thoughts with Francis Chan (3 min)

    • Lesson 4: WATCH // Kris's Story (2 minutes)

    • Lesson 4: WATCH // John's Story (4 minutes)

    • Bonus: READ // Spectators to Participants (20 minutes)

    • Bonus: LISTEN // Complex to Replicable with Ryan Skoog (50 minutes)

    • Bonus: LISTEN // Monologue to Dialogue with Sarah Wood (27 minutes)

    WEEK 4: THE GOAL // Cultivate a Community

    • Lesson 1: WATCH // Introduction (2 min)

    • Lesson 1: READ // What is the Pathway? (5 minutes)

    • Lesson 1: LISTEN // Create a Way to Something New Where You Are with Kathryn Maack and David Legge (9 minutes)

    • Lesson 1: PRACTICE // Start a Community (15 minutes - lifetime)

    • Lesson 2: LISTEN // The Gathering Guide (43 minutes)

    • Lesson 3: WATCH // Stay Close to the Presence (2 minutes)

    • Lesson 3: READ // Finding a Champion (10 minutes)

    • Lesson 3: READ // The People Jesus Chose

    • Lesson 4: WATCH // Thoughts from Jennie Allen (2 min)

    • Lesson 4: LISTEN // Worship in Small Communities (43 minutes)

    • Bonus: READ // Environments, Shapes, Postures, and Awkward Silence (15 minutes)

    • Lesson 5: READ // Small is Big When God is in it (15 minutes)

    • Lesson 5: LISTEN // Celebrating Communion (23 minutes)

    • Lesson 5: WATCH // Christy's Story (4 minutes)

    • Lesson 5: PRACTICE // Register Your Community (10 minutes)

    • Lesson 5: WATCH // Conclusion (2 min)

TRAINING CIRCLE CORE
$79.00
One time
$26.00
For 3 months

Whether you need confidence, permission, or tools - we will help you cultivate a community wherever you are. For one person: click Sign Up, create your login, then check out.

✓ Over 20 hours of video content
✓ Unlimited lifetime access

The Training Circle Premium has everything in Core, plus all you need to start and multiply a house church, and a resource library.

  • Full training on becoming a house church, including training on roles, leadership, kids, worship, and more (guides + best practices)

  • Training on multiplication, cultivating hubs of house churches, leadership, and hybrid church ideas for traditional church leaders

  • Full Resource Library

TRAINING CIRCLE PREMIUM
$99.00
One time
$33.00
For 3 months

Giving you the confidence, tools, and practice to cultivate a community or house church where you are.

✓ Over 20 hours of video content
✓ Unlimited lifetime access

  • All of the Core Course, plus these additions:

    WEEK 5: THE NEXT STEP // Become a House Church

    • Lesson 1: WATCH // Introduction (4 minutes)

    • Lesson 1: LISTEN // The House Church Guide (45 minutes)

    • Lesson 2: WATCH // Erin's Story (5 minutes)

    • Lesson 2: READ // A Thriving Church Ecosystem (15 minutes)

    • Lesson 2: READ // Hybrid Models (10 minutes)

    • Lesson 2: LISTEN // Celebrating Baptism (25 minutes)

    • Lesson 3: READ // Doctrine in a House Church (10 minutes)

    • Lesson 3: READ // Tithing in a House Church (10 minutes)

    • Lesson 3: READ // What About Kids in House Church? (10 minutes)

    • Lesson 4: LISTEN // House Church FAQ videos (30 minutes)

    WEEK 5: LAST STEP // Multiply

    • Lesson 5: WATCH // Introduction (2 minutes)

    • Lesson 5: LISTEN // The Multiply Guide (34 minutes)

    • Lesson 5: READ // Vision for Leadership (45 minutes)

    • Lesson: WATCH // How Do We Multiply as a House Church? (2 minutes)

    • Lesson 5: WATCH // What is a Hub? (2 minutes)

    RESOURCE LIBRARY

    • READ // Vision for Leadership (45 minutes)

    • READ // Women in Leadership (15 minutes)

    • READ // Lay Leadership and Bivocational Ministry (10 minutes)

    • READ // Giving and Accounts (30 min)

    • READ // Statement of Belief for Leaders (10 minutes)

    • READ // Child Safety Guidance (10 minutes)

    • WATCH // The Fastest Growing Church - Iran (111 minutes)

    • WATCH // Godspeed Documentary (36 minutes)

    • READ // Community Calendar (10 minutes)

GROUP PRICING: If you have a group of leaders desiring to cultivate communities, buy the Training Circle Core Group. To train a group of leaders on cultivating house churches, buy the Training Circle Premium Group. After you pay for the course, you will receive an email with a code you can distribute to the other leaders in your group.

  • Small Group (up to 5 people) — $249 Core / $299 Premium

  • Medium Group (up to 10 people) — $449 Core / $549 Premium

  • Large Group (up to 20 people) — $799 Core / $999 Premium

  • If you have a group larger than 20 people, please contact alie@dwellings.info.

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What You’ll Experience

Over four weeks, you’ll move through a series of short, practical lessons from Kathryn Maack, David Legge, and our other Dwellings team members, along with other contributors including: Alan Hirsch, Darren Rouanzoin, Jennie Allen, Jonny Hughes, Katia Adams, Francis Chan, Tom Doyle, Ryan Skoog, Zach Meerkreebs, Christy Nockels, and more. These lessons are designed to inspire and activate.

Each week includes:

  • Videos, articles, podcasts, and spiritual practices

  • 15–50 minutes a day, 5 days a week

  • Reflection questions to guide you toward true transformation

Week 1: The Vision

Catch a glimpse of what’s possible when community or church becomes relational, simple, and Spirit-led. Discover your own unique role.

Week 2: The Center

Learn to build your life, community, and your gatherings around the presence of Jesus. Strip away the clutter, making space for what matters.

Week 3: The Way

Explore four paradigm shifts in the way we can do discipleship:

  • From isolation → to family

  • From information → to transformation

  • From spectators → to participants

  • From comfort → to mission

Week 4: The Goal - Cultivating Your Community

Learn simple, practical frameworks to start and grow a Spirit-led community where you are. Learn how to create rhythms, engage Scripture, and invite others—whether it’s a house church, or a neighborhood or college gathering.

Week 5: (Premium) Start a House Church and Multiply + Resource Library

Stay Connected Beyond the Course

If you choose, you can step into an ongoing journey with others as part of the Dwellings Family, where you can be a part of monthly live discipleship calls and have access to a private directory of others walking this out. More information is in the course.

Why it Matters

People are hungry for more than content. They want connection and community. They want to encounter the Spirit of God in everyday life and help others do the same. This isn’t just a course you finish and forget about. It’s a turning point.

You’ll leave with:

  • A clear vision for what spiritual community can look like

  • Simple and replicable tools and frameworks to start right where you are

  • Confidence and language to take your next step

  • Invitation into the Dwellings Family—with ongoing connection and discipleship

  • A lifelong network of people walking alongside you

TRAINING CIRCLE CORE
$79.00
One time
$26.00
For 3 months

Whether you need confidence, permission, or tools - we will help you cultivate a community wherever you are. For one person: click Sign Up, create your login, then check out.

✓ Over 20 hours of video content
✓ Unlimited lifetime access
TRAINING CIRCLE PREMIUM
$99.00
One time
$33.00
For 3 months

Giving you the confidence, tools, and practice to cultivate a community or house church where you are.

✓ Over 20 hours of video content
✓ Unlimited lifetime access

You’re not the only one longing for this,

here’s what others have found by joining the Dwellings Family.

  • “We needed to not just bump shoulders, but actually lock arms with people who were doing the same thing we were doing, building organic and authentic community in living rooms."

    Erin and John Olinger // Launching a new House Church in St Augustine, FL

  • “There are few spaces to dream, lead, and learn together as we seek to explore what might be the next generation of church in the West. This experience has informed the way we do community and life differently than ever before. ”

    Nic Othart // Community + House Church Leader Riverbend Church, Bend OR

  • “Dwellings has given me insight into gifts that were dormant in myself or others… that hadn’t been utilized to their full potential.”

    Kris Hanna // House Church Leader + Elder Portadown, NI

  • "What I love about Dwellings leadership is that they heard our story and it wasn't met with control. Our unique dreams were supported as we were brought into this family."

    Turner Moore // House Church Leader Maumelle, AR

  • "What I found was this beautiful belonging . . . I didn't realize how lonely I had been in this longing for God to do something, even in my living room."

    Christy Nockels // Worship + Community Leader Franklin, TN