Behold
Archdiocese of Vancouver
Connecting everyday questions about relationships, purpose, and wellbeing with Jesus’ teaching through content shaped around people’s needs.
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Your fund’s ministry incubation and fulfilment partner.
GCM partners with innovative funds to help Catholic ministries discern, build, and grow their accompaniment capacity through the people, systems, and structures their context needs.
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Built around people.
Rooted in relationship.
Rooted in relationship.
The Opportunity for Funds
We accompany your ministries
from vision to launch.
The ministries approaching your fund have a calling they want to bring to life. Alongside funding, they may need practical help to shape and launch the work.
GCM works alongside their leaders from early discernment through a first ministry launch or new initiative, building the people, practices, and systems needed to accompany their communities well.
What we can do for your ministries
Ready to partner
with you today.
Bring us a ministry or an emerging project. We help turn its calling into something ready to launch, drawing on the work we’ve done alongside ministry leaders.
Discern
Understand the people, the calling, and the opportunity.
Design
Shape the accompaniment pathway and the roles around it.
Build
Create the practical resources and systems the ministry needs.
Pilot
Prepare the team and try the first version in its community.
Learn
Listen, adapt, and decide the next step with the ministry.
Past work
Ministry work in practice.
Human
Archdiocese of Chicago
Helping parishioners accompany spiritual seekers, with formation for Guides in meaningful dialogue across different worldviews.
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Value Project
Signal Hill
An immersive student summit bringing together human formation, installations, talks, and personalized resources for participants.
Learn MoreSelected project experience across Glass Canvas and Glass Canvas Ministries.
Ministry Leaders
“We’ve been operating with a spinning compass and now I see north.”
Internal incubation
Guide Development.
Guide Development is an internal GCM prototype, currently being developed without a specific ministry partner. We’re exploring how to form people who can walk well with others through online formation, guided conversation, and continuing coaching.
Explore the prototypeA strategic partnership
Two ways to begin.
One shared purpose.
Connect a fund’s mission with a ministry’s readiness—and the capacity to move forward.
Bring a ministry
to us.
You know a ministry with a promising opportunity. We work with its leaders to discern the accompaniment need and shape the right support.
Let us bring
one to you.
We identify a ministry ready to build its accompaniment capacity. We bring that opportunity to a partner fund, with the context and a proposed path forward.
Shared learning
See what’s taking root.
Agree meaningful milestones at the start, then review what the ministry is putting into practice and what its people are experiencing.
People equipped
Who is prepared to accompany others, and where do they need more support?
Capacity in place
What practices, resources, and structures can the ministry now use?
A clear next step
What have we learned, and what should continue, change, or grow?
A few starting questions.
Does the ministry have to be new?
We can work with a new Catholic ministry or a new initiative within an existing ministry. The starting point is a committed leader, a clear community to serve, and a readiness to develop its accompaniment capacity.
What would our fund support?
We scope that together: the ministry’s needs, GCM’s fulfillment work, the resources required, and the learning milestones. A first partnership can begin with one ministry pilot.
Can we explore the relationship before choosing a ministry?
Yes. Start with your fund’s mission and priorities. Our Partnerships Director can explore the fit, the kinds of ministries you want to serve, and how we could work together.
Let’s begin a conversation
What could we
make possible together?
Bring your fund’s vision. Let’s explore where GCM can be your accompaniment innovation and fulfillment partner.
Kevin ChiangDirector of Partnerships
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