According to Barna’s 2022 research - fewer pastors are going into ministry, fewer people are joining the Church, fewer lost are being reached with the Gospel. Though seminaries are producing more graduates, they aren’t producing more leaders. Why? Because discipleship can’t be outsourced to a university. As Paul charged the Ephesian church, the responsibility lies with the local church to equip the saints. The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few...

What if churches in WNY worked together to raise up disciple-makers and leaders in a collaborative community so that each person was sent back to their home churches better equipped? 

Would you be interested?

The word "agora" is Greek for marketplace - the public center of ancient cities where people were gathered and ideas were exchanged. 

The Agora Institute was launched to create a space for this type of interaction in order to 

equip ordinary people for extraordinary Kingdom work—at home, in the church, and around the world.