The Master's Program: 20 Year Ministry Montage
The Master's Program
Champion: Bob Shank
The Legacy Edition of The Master’s Program continues to offer a coaching experience and mentoring relationship with TMP’s founder. For 20 years, Christian leaders are included in working cohorts – typically 12-30 participants – who move together through the three-year Legacy version of TMP, meeting for a full day each quarter. From the beginning, Bob has launched and led groups from Newport Beach to New York City, and has personally mentored thousands of leaders through their discovery of their Kingdom Calling. His leadership of the Legacy Edition groups – in Southern California, and in new locales across the country – will continue as we move into TMP’s third decade.
The Master’s Program: Coaches Edition
Champion: Brian Dowd
Patterned after the Legacy Edition of TMP, Brian replicated
his experience with Bob beginning in 2007 as he recruited and
led successive cohorts of leaders through the TMP process.
Today, he continues his active leadership with TMP groups
while recruiting, vetting, training and overseeing gifted TMP
graduates – men and women – as they become part of the TMP
Coach team.
The Master’s Program for Women
Champion: Sandy Olsson
While the first TMP cohort for men was underway in Southern
California, the request to make The Master’s Program available to
women was made, and affirmed. Today, Sandy leads a growing cadre
of women who are now coaching TMP groups across America, and in
international settings as well. 
Master’s OnLine
Champion: Noah Elias
The next generation of adults are a significant emphasis for TMP, today
and into the future. In partnership with the Kay Family Foundation,
TMP’s messaging has been captured in video formats delivered in weekly
installments, suited for mobile devices. An additional on-line community
element allows participants to build relationships with one another with
no restrictions based on time, distance or national boundaries.
The Master’s Program: Church Edition
Champion: John Gross
After completing TMP, John pursued his vision of TMP serving
individual churches. His early effort brought the Legacy model into
the local church environment. His new effort is repurposing video
resources originally created for Master’s OnLine and combining
them with newly developed presenter tools to enable a unique
collaborative relationship with local churches in cultivating Kingdom
leadership in their community. This new initiative will launch in
the 1st Quarter of 2017. 
The Master’s Program: Veterans’ Initiative
Champion: Phil Brown
The volunteer members of our military community – serving since
the world changed on 9/11 – are an amazing category of leaders with
much to offer their country and the Kingdom as they complete their
active duty and transition into their future. Graduates of TMP are
helping by providing scholarships for qualifying veterans who are
coming into TMP cohorts alongside their marketplace and ministry
peers. Through Master’s, they are making new discoveries about
their unique Kingdom Calling.
The Barnabas Group, National
Champions: Becky Turner & Pat Brady
Launched by Master’s graduates in Southern California in 2000, Barnabas has become the
point of connection for Christian leaders from both marketplace and ministry backgrounds.
More than a dozen local chapters have served over 2000 ministries by matching ministry
needs with leaders’ time, talents and networks. Becky serves as the National Managing
Partner; Pat is the Chair of the National Board. 
The Master’s Program Canada
Champion: Chris Hornibrook
After graduating from TMP in 2006 – commuting from Quebec
to Atlanta to participate in his quarterly sessions – Chris decided
to resign his role as Vice President in his family’s large specialty
insurance business and to instead pursue his Calling: he founded
The Master’s Program Canada. In the last decade, he has positioned
TMP across Canada – from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coasts –
and established collaborative partnerships with other evangelical
ministries and churches across his country. 
The Master’s Program Latin America:
El Plan del Maestro
Champion: David Waters
Born to American missionaries in Spain – and serving as senior
pastor of a church in Washington, DC – Dave graduated from TMP in
Charlotte, and immediately forged a vision to supervise the Spanish
translation of TMP’s curriculum and methodology for Hispanic
cultures. Today, TMP is reformatted to serve the 457 million people
whose heart language is Spanish. Dave is now leading El Plan del
Maestro’s launch in multiple countries in Central and South America. 
