RESTORE™ FOR CHURCHES
Help people go from attending to belonging.
People may forget what we say, but they never forget what it feels like to belong. RESTORE™ helps church leaders close the gap between what we preach and what people experience, and build a church that outlasts any one leader.
10 minutes · Free · For pastors, elders and ministry leaders
THE QUIET DRIFT
Healthy on the outside. Something missing on the inside.
We talk with a lot of pastors. Most are excited about where their church is heading. Yet almost every one of them tells us some version of this:
— People show up, but fewer get involved.
— The same faithful few serve in everything, and they're tired.
— Visitors come and go, and we're not always sure who they were.
— Our leaders struggle to say no, and the spark isn't what it was.
— We've added ministries, but involvement hasn't grown.
We preach belonging.
But newcomers struggle to find their way in.
We preach discipleship.
But the next step isn't clear.
We preach care.
But volunteers quietly burn out.
These gaps grow slowly, as churches get busier and leaders carry more. They're signals, and they're worth listening to.
VALUES PEOPLE CAN FEEL
Your values are on the wall. Are they in people's hearts?
Most members could name your church's values. Far fewer could tell you what makes your church different from the one down the road, or how those values have shaped their own week.
RESTORE™ helps you move your values from paper into stories, from stories into habits, and from habits into something people feel the moment they walk in.
BUILT TO OUTLAST
Is your church's future tied to one person?
In many healthy churches, much of what people love is tied to the senior pastor: the vision, the voice, the relationships. It's a gift today. It's also a risk.
When the time comes for a transition, planned or not, churches that have shared their identity widely keep their direction. RESTORE™ helps you build a church whose mission, leaders and culture would carry on with grace.
The RESTORE Check includes a Leader Independence score, so you can see where you stand today.
RESTORE
Seven principles. One honest process.
We developed RESTORE by studying some of the most remarkable organizational turnarounds, then tested it with the organizations we serve.
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Reality Check
See your church the way a first-time guest does, and name what everyone already knows.
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Eliminate Complexity
Do fewer things well, so leaders and volunteers have room to breathe.
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Strengthen Trust
Make it safe to name what's drifted, so honesty and energy return.
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True Identity
Turn your values into something people can feel and describe in their own words.
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Operating Discipline
Build a clear path from attending to belonging, serving and leading, and walk it every week.
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Reconnect
Build a clear path from attending to belonging, serving and leading, and walk it every week.
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Embed a System that Survives You
Build a clear path from attending to belonging, serving and leading, and walk it every week.
START WITH THE RESTORE CHECK
Before any plan, get a clear picture.
The RESTORE Check is a 10-minute assessment that scores your church on eight areas that shape belonging and involvement.
Identity & Meaning
Belonging Pathway
Welcome
Leadership Bench
Leader Independence
Trust & Energy
Focus
Mission & Giving
Take it yourself for free and get your RESTORE Score, your strongest areas and your biggest gaps.
Then ask the harder question: would your congregation agree? With the Community Diagnostic, your staff, elders, volunteers and members take the same check anonymously. You'll see where leaders and congregation see things the same way, and where they don't.
Four steps, at your pace.
Diagnostic from $1,250. Workshop from $3,950, including the Diagnostic. Partnership priced to your needs.
RESTORE Check
One leader takes the 10-minute check and receives a short report.
FREE
Community Diagnostic
Your whole community takes the check. We present the results in a 60-90-minute debrief with your leaders.
FROM $1,250*
RESTORE Workshop
A full day for 5–50 leaders, plus an Elephant Meeting™ with senior leaders and the board. You leave with a 90-day plan.
FROM $3,950*
RESTORE Partnership
Ongoing support as you build your belonging pathway, develop new leaders and plan for the future.
FROM $750/MONTH
*Plus applicable taxes. Pricing is based on your average weekly attendance, and we’ll confirm it with you on a short call. Travel isn’t included; for in-person sessions outside the Greater Toronto Area, we’ll agree on travel costs with you in advance.
THE RESTORE WORKSHOP
A day that changes how your leaders lead.
Seven modules, one for each RESTORE principle. The workshop blends teaching with guided work, so your team leaves with decisions they've made together.
See It as a Guest Sees It
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Your results, through a newcomer's eyes
Fewer, Better
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What to keep, change and stop
Promises and Signals
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Rebuilding trust and candour
From Values to Proof
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Values people can feel
The Belonging Pathway
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Attending to belonging to leading
Every Person, Every Gift
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Every newcomer, every gift
Built to Outlast
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New leaders, transition, 90-day plan
Your senior pastor is invited to open each module with a passage or reflection. Your RESTORE Check results decide where the day goes deepest.
YOU’LL LEAVE WITH
One clear priority · the behaviours that will show it · what you'll stop doing · an owner for every step · a rhythm to keep it going
For church leaders who sense something is slightly out of tune.
Designed for senior and lead pastors, staff teams, elders and boards, and ministry leaders. Especially valuable if your church:
✓ is healthy on paper but feels flat
✓ relies on the same people for everything
✓ wants newcomers to find their way in, and stay
✓ is thinking about a leadership transition
✓ wants to stay relevant without compromising what it believes
If something feels slightly out of tune, you're probably not imagining it.
Outside eyes. Shared values.
Leadership In Focus helps organizations align who they say they are with how they actually lead. Our founders, Kurtis Graham and Curtis Scaplen, bring more than 45 years of experience leading teams and building organizations in Canada and around the world.
Our role is to help you see clearly, name drift honestly, turn values into lived behaviour, and build a church that can carry its mission forward. We help your leaders lead what's already yours.
Start with a clear picture.
You don't need a big commitment. You need an honest look at where you are. Take the RESTORE Check, and we'll talk through what it's telling you.
Questions church leaders ask
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No. RESTORE™ focuses on depth before size: helping the people already connected to your church find their way in, get involved and grow as leaders. Healthy churches often grow as a result, but attendance isn't the goal.
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The principles come from studying how organizations of every kind recover their way, and they apply to any group of people with a shared purpose. The language, examples and workshop are built for churches. We work with your theology and your leaders; we never ask you to change what you believe.
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A 10-minute assessment that scores your church on eight areas: Identity & Meaning, Welcome, Belonging Pathway, Leadership Bench, Leader Independence, Focus, Trust & Energy, and Mission & Giving. A leader can take it free. In the Community Diagnostic, your staff, elders, volunteers and members take it anonymously, and we show you where their view differs from your leaders'.
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Yes. Leaders see only combined results, and no group smaller than five people is reported on its own.
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Your senior pastor, staff, elders or board, and key ministry leaders: anyone who shapes what people experience. Groups of 5 to 50 work well.
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The check takes 10 minutes. The Community Diagnostic needs 2–3 weeks to collect responses and a 90-minute debrief. The workshop is one full day, plus a two-hour Elephant Meeting™ with senior leaders and the board.
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The RESTORE Check is free. The Community Diagnostic starts at $1,250 and the RESTORE Workshop starts at $3,950, which includes the Diagnostic. Pricing is based on your average weekly attendance. The RESTORE Partnership starts at $750 a month. All prices are plus applicable taxes.
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The Community Diagnostic is paid when you book. For the RESTORE Workshop, a 50% deposit confirms your date, and the balance is due within 30 days after the workshop. If you've already completed the Diagnostic, its fee counts toward your deposit. Need to reschedule? With at least 14 days' notice, your deposit moves to the new date.
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Many churches cover it through their leadership or staff development budget, a designated gift, or a denominational grant. If it would help, we're glad to walk your board through your RESTORE Check results and what the work involves.
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One clear priority, the behaviours that will show it, what you'll stop doing, an owner for every step, and a 90-day plan with a rhythm to keep it going.
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Yes. The Leader Independence results show how much of your church's identity rests on one person, and the work helps you share vision, relationships and decisions more widely before a transition, so the church carries its direction forward.