Marketplace Discipleship for Your Church
Your Church Has Business Owners. Give Them a Biblical Pathway to Make Progress.
Bring Accelerate to your church and equip the entrepreneurs and business leaders in your congregation to apply biblical principles to the businesses God has entrusted to them.
Great Harvest provides the curriculum, teaching, tools, and training.
Your church provides the community and a leader.
Together, we create a practical discipleship pathway for the marketplace.
The Unministered Acre
You Disciple Them in Their Faith. What About Their Business?
Churches have built meaningful ministries around many important areas of life:
You Already Disciple Them In
- Marriage.
- Parenting.
- Finances.
- Grief.
- Recovery.
- Leadership.
But Every Sunday, They Also Carry
- Employees.
- Customers.
- Families.
- Payroll.
- Revenue.
- Strategy.
- Difficult decisions.
- Growth.
And many have never been discipled around how their faith should influence the business they spend much of their week building.
We believe the business is an area of stewardship too.
That’s the opportunity behind:
Businesstry™
Businesstry connects biblical discipleship to the practical realities of building and leading a business.
And Accelerate gives your church a ready-to-run way to bring it to your people.
“ The marketplace is a mission field. ”
Meet Accelerate
Biblical Principles. Practical Business Building. Measurable Progress.
Accelerate is a nine-week, Scripture-anchored business-building experience created by Walter and Antoinette Bond.
Participants don’t simply listen to business teaching.
They work on their actual businesses.
Through Accelerate, owners learn to
Analyze
Strategize
Organize
Prioritize
Systemize
Analyze
Know the state of what has been entrusted to you.
Strategize
Prayerfully determine where you’re going and how you’ll move forward.
Organize
Align your people and resources around the mission.
Prioritize
Focus your attention on what matters now.
Systemize
Create order and make excellence repeatable.
Every session connects
Scripture
Principle
Business Tool
Action
Progress
Steward Step™
And every week participants leave with a Steward Step—one specific action to move what they learned into their business.
Simple. Local. Repeatable.
We Built the Curriculum. You Bring the People.
Great Harvest gives your church the system and support to deliver Accelerate locally.
1. Partner With Great Harvest
Your church becomes an authorized Great Harvest partner equipped to offer Accelerate to your congregation and community.
2. Choose Your Businesstry Leader
Your church identifies the right person to facilitate Accelerate locally.
They do not need to be a business guru.
They need to be someone who can lead people, facilitate conversation, protect the culture of the room, and help participants follow through.
3. We Train Your Leader
Great Harvest trains your Businesstry Leader in the Accelerate methodology and how to facilitate the nine-week experience.
They learn the curriculum before leading it and receive the tools needed to guide participants effectively.
4. Launch Accelerate
Your church gathers a cohort of business owners and leaders.
Walter and Antoinette provide the core teaching through the Accelerate training.
Your Businesstry Leader facilitates the room, guides discussion, helps participants work through the tools, and encourages implementation between sessions.
5. Do It Again
Accelerate isn’t designed to be a one-time event.
Your trained Businesstry Leader allows your church to continue offering Accelerate to additional groups of entrepreneurs and business leaders.
One trained leader. Multiple cohorts. Ongoing impact.
The Local Leader
You Provide the Leader. We Prepare Them.
One of the first questions a church may ask is:
“Who do we have qualified to teach business?”
The answer is:
They don’t have to teach it.
Walter and Antoinette deliver the core Accelerate curriculum.
Your Businesstry Leader is trained by Great Harvest to facilitate the experience inside your church.
Their job isn’t to have every answer.
Their job is to shepherd the room.
A great Businesstry Leader learns to:
- Ask instead of always answering.
- Guide participants back to the curriculum.
- Encourage honest business assessment.
- Hold participants accountable to their Steward Steps.
- Create a confidential environment where owners can be honest.
- Listen for what’s really happening.
- Create meaningful discussion.
- Help participants clarify decisions.
- Follow up between sessions.
- Help people do the work.
They Are Not
The Teacher.
Walter and Antoinette provide the teaching.
The Business Consultant.
Participants learn to work through their own businesses using the Accelerate methodology.
The Salesperson.
The cohort is never a prospecting room.
The Counselor, Accountant, or Attorney.
Issues requiring professional expertise are appropriately referred.
“ They don’t need to be the business expert. They need to know how to shepherd the room. ”
Training in a Box
You Don’t Have to Build This From Scratch.
We’ve built the methodology, curriculum, tools, and leader-development system so your church can focus on what it does best:
Serving people.
Your Accelerate partnership provides the resources needed to launch and facilitate the experience, including:
Accelerate Video Training
Nine Scripture-anchored sessions taught by Walter and Antoinette Bond.
Accelerate Book
The foundational methodology participants use throughout the experience.
Participant Workbook
Practical exercises that move participants from learning into business-building action.
Business-Building Tools
Diagnostics, planning tools, strategy exercises, priority tools, process development, and implementation resources.
Businesstry Leader Training
Preparation for the person your church selects to facilitate Accelerate.
Train-the-Trainer Guide
Session-by-session guidance showing your leader what to watch for, what to ask, how to facilitate discussion, and how to help participants implement.
Ongoing Leader Support
Great Harvest supports your Businesstry Leader as they facilitate the experience.
A Repeatable Model
Once the infrastructure is established, your church can continue reaching additional business owners through future Accelerate cohorts.
Great Harvest Provides
- Curriculum
- Teaching
- Tools
- Leader Training
- Facilitation System
- Ongoing Support
Your Church Provides
- Businesstry Leader
- Participants
- Meeting Environment
- Community
- Local Relationships
Why This Matters
When the Business Owner Makes Progress, the Impact Multiplies.
Helping an entrepreneur build a healthier business doesn’t stop with the entrepreneur.
A stronger business can strengthen:
Imagine business owners in your congregation learning to see their companies not simply as something they own—
but as something they have been entrusted to steward.
- Imagine them becoming more intentional about how they lead.
- More disciplined about how they build.
- More aligned in their partnerships.
- More focused in their priorities.
- More structured in their operations.
- More capable of creating opportunities for others.
Build God’s Way. Make Progress. Multiply the Impact.
A Businesstry in Every Church.
Our vision is to equip churches around the world with a practical discipleship pathway for the men and women called to the marketplace.
Not another Sunday program.
Not another inspirational business event.
A repeatable system your church can use to help business owners learn, build, implement, and make progress.
The Marketplace Is a Mission Field.
Let’s Equip the People Called to It.
Help Bring Accelerate to More Churches
Know a pastor, church, or ministry that could benefit from Accelerate? Become a connector for the mission. Learn how our affiliate program equips you to introduce Accelerate to churches in your network.
Ready to Bring Accelerate to Your Church?
Let’s start the conversation about equipping the business owners in your congregation.