Phil Underwood is one of my favorite thinkers. Others who feel the same have joined me in convincing Phil that keeping himself to himself and a few others is just not the way to live.  So, now churches and ministries locally and globally have the opportunity to partner with Phil in discovering old pathways that lead to new understanding in following Jesus. Forget Church-ianity, move beyond Christianity, and discover Jesus again ....for the first time.                          -Leonard Sweet, author

Phil Underwood is one of the most amazing followers of Jesus I’ve ever met. Not only is he an inspiring teacher, but also  a phen   menal person to be around with. His understanding of what it means to follow Christ faithfully today is fresh, provocative and life-changing!                                          - Stephan Joubert, eKerk 

Some teachers teach out of books, some leaders lead from a manual, some friends connect through obligation.  Phil Underwood is different - because he is REAL.  Phil teaches out of his heart, sharing real life experiences; he leads out of his character - one of a servant; and he is a friend out of love and honesty.  Just being with the man is uplifting - because he is alive with passion for Jesus.

        - Dries Lombaard, Mosaic

Phil has a passion for developing leaders that are making a difference for the kingdom.

-Bill Couchenour, CEO, Cogun

It takes a pastor to understand the challenges pastors face. Phil Underwood is a pastor at heart with a mind for mapping out ministry solutions. With a pastor’s heart and an outsider’s perspective, he is committed to helping pastors and ministry leaders seize opportunities and overcome challenges. Whether navigating long-term change, evaluating ongoing issues, assessing personal competency or a host of other issues, Phil is equipped to add significant value to your church or ministry organization. He will serve you with clarity, excellence and integrity. I give him my highest recommendation.

   -Jim Sheppard, CEO, Generis

Phil Underwood is a man with outstanding vision, focus, and drive to get his clients to a new level. Those that work with him, and those that know him, see in him a true leader in every sense of the word - someone who won't place on you the lastest, greatest, trendy solutions and answers; rather someone that will guide you and lead you to discover yours.

   -Rev Bruce Barnard, New York

Your message has message has changed the church in this nation.                                  -Dr Ronald Diaz l  San Jose, Costa Rica

You have been with our leadership team and I just want to thank you personally for the spot on input that you gave about team building.  It was a much needed presentation and it made me aware of how important the original basics in Jesus are.                                                    -Sarel Visser,  Moreletapark Community Church

epiK is an invitation to experience, participate and imagine possibilities living and creating in the Kingdom.  In an age where spiritual leaders, in the way of Jesus Christ, must initiate and navigate change at breakneck speed, we must not go alone. Because of that reality, Phil Underwood, and the team of leadership strategists he works with, are committed to assisting leaders move through change.

All around the globe, the challenge is the same, how do we move from maintenance and attempting to meet the needs of religious consumers to a posture of mission?   We begin with the words of our leader, "Go."

The Kingdom is never in park mode or in a neutral gear.  We are always to be moving, extending, covering, expanding.  From the words of the Great Commission to the words of direction given followers in Luke's history of the emerging church, there is trajectory.

"Go, make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe my way and I am with you to the end of the age."  In this the movement is evident from the starting line to an invisible time in the future. In it all we are in a partnership of extension, propagation and proclaiming.  Later, the words of Jesus instruct us to receive a dynamic energy to our life, the propulsion of the Holy Spirit, to engage us with people very close to us, those much like us, those nothing like us and in opposition to us and to those we do not even know when He says, "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the furthest part of the earth."

This mission is the core activity of the Church.  If we are not built from this foundation, and to this destiny, we are just a religious organization coalesced around the ideals of Jesus, but disinterested in His reason for being.

epiK is here to help you move from maintenance to mission.  We have a proven, and improving, track record of seeing local congregations change from an inward focus to an outward mobility.  This leadership journey is not short, nor is it easy.  It is involved, in depth, interrogating and invasive.  epiK is not a program but, as one pastor recently said, a new operating system.

Are you up to the challenge or would you rather stay in the tried and true, yet increasingly ineffective, modem of ministry and leadership?  Are you content to focus everything around a weekly event or would you be better served to learn how to be a 24/7 catalyst for change and impact?  The choice is yours.

If you choose change we are here to be your partners, guides and facilitators.  Experience, participate, imagine....it's Kingdom life.

Become an effective leader of change by being a leader in change.

The reFocusing Pastors Leadership Network provides a safe place and a process to hear from God.  In a Network, six to eight pastors meet regularly over 18 to 24 months and focus on key strategic issues:

• Ministry leadership
• Character formation
• Skill development 

The integration of these components in a discovery-based, facilitator-led environment sets reFocusing Networks apart from other training processes or leadership clusters.

Leadership development empowers pastors with the character, clarity, and competency to courageously lead their churches to impact their communities. Through personal coaching, supportive relationships, interactive workshops, peer networks, and proven resources, churches and leaders have been empowered and fueled with missional momentum. 

To learn more about the process, see below.

Phase One :: Focusing Leaders

In Phase One, participants clarify how God has uniquely shaped them and how they can align themselves with God's purposes.  They discover how to spot and support what God is doing to develop other leaders in their ministries.

Phase Two :: Focusing Your Ministry

Phase Two is designed to develop strategic leaders through a process that helps their churches discover and align with God's heart for their community.  It deepens leaders' capacity to mobilize members to greater kingdom influence.