FOR MINISTER & CHURCH LEADERS
Your congregation
is ready for
this Journey.
The Direction - Church Edition brings the 180-day Direction Series into your congregation as a shared, anonymous, psychologically safe formation experience. Your people take the Journey. You steward the ground.
THE LANDSCAPE
What your congregation may not be saying out loud.
Barna Group research found that 64% of young adults who grew up in church have quietly withdrawn from active participation. Among those 30 and younger, the most common reason given was simple:
"God felt missing."
This is not rebellion. It is spiritual hunger going unfed.
At the same time, Pew Research reports that 75% of U.S. adults still consider themselves spiritual. 81% believe in something beyond the natural world. 74% believe things exist that science alone cannot explain.
Your people have not stopped believing. Many have stopped finding what they need where they expected to find it.
The Barna Connected Generation study found that 47% of young Christians believe church teachings have flaws or gaps. Yet when asked what actually helped their faith grow — church programming did not rank among the top factors.
What did? Prayer. Scripture. Personal relationships. Life experience. Their relationship with Jesus.
Direction was built for exactly this moment. Not to replace the church. To resource it.
What the Church Edition Is.
A congregation-wide formation experience. Anonymous. Structured. Sacred.
The Direction-Church Edition brings the full 180-day Direction Series into your congregation as a shared Journey — without requiring anyone to perform their faith publicly.
Every Member Participant engages privately in their own sacred space. Every Member Participant receives their own Direction Keepsake Experience™. Small groups are formed with one simple conviction — that every person in the room deserves to be met where they actually are, not where they feel pressured to appear.
No performance. No disclosure. No pretense.
You provide the ground. Direction provides the structure. God does the work.
WHAT YOUR CHURCH RECEIVES
Every box. Every guide. Every gathering. Designed with intention.
For Every Member Participant — The Direction Keepsake Experience™
On Kickoff night, every Member Participant finds a sealed box waiting at their place before they arrive. Inside — six volumes, sacred incense, seeds, anointing oil, and curated keepsake items that begin a collection they will carry for the rest of their lives. At every Big Tent Gathering, something new is added — a sacred oil, a gift drawn from an ancient olive wood bowl, a wax-sealed word spoken over them — until what they carry becomes a tangible record of every threshold crossed and every season God met them in.
Every item serves a purpose — creating space for reflection, consecration, and daily communion with God.
Every box is the same — because no one's formation is more valuable than another's.
What begins as a personal Journey does not remain personal. As participants walk the experience, a shared rhythm begins to form within the church — a collective witness of what God is doing among them.
What is encountered in private is witnessed in community. And over time, the obedience of one begins to strengthen the faith of another.
For Church Leadership — The Direction Church Leadership Experience
Each church receives a Direction Church Leadership Box—equipped to hold the ground for the full 180-day Journey.
Inside: Direction-Church Edition: The Church Leadership Guide, the Church Leadership Planner, and sacred materials used to anoint, commission, and steward your congregation throughout the Journey.
You will not be teaching.
You will not be managing groups or directing outcomes.
You will be the covering.
The one who prays before anyone else arrives.
The one who anoints.
The one who stands at the final gathering and looks out at people who are not who they were when this began—and knows you held the ground for that.
Everything in this box was built for that role.
The Gatherings — Large & Small
Throughout the 180-day Journey, two kinds of sacred gatherings anchor the experience.
Small Communal Gatherings happen weekly—intimate, unhurried, and protected from the noise of ordinary life. Shoes off. Phones down. A small group from your own church, present together in a space where God is already at work. No teaching. No performance. Simply witness.
Large Communal Gatherings mark the thresholds—the moments when your entire cohort comes together as one. Frankincense rising. Anointing. Communion. A word spoken over people who have been privately with God and are now gathered to mark what He has done
These are not program events. They are the communal evidence of private formation.
What happens in the small gathering prepares the heart. What happens in the large gathering marks the threshold. Together they create a rhythm your congregation will feel long after the 180 days are complete.
The Structure That Holds It All
A Covenant Calendar that protects the rhythm. A Direction Journey Roadmap that holds the arc. A rotation of Facilitators that ensures every Member Participant is accompanied with fresh eyes across every season.
And at the close — a Ceremony of Release. Where what was carried in confidence is surrendered. What was formed is honored. And what was called out of your people is sent into the world.
There is a before.
There is an after.
This is where after begins.
For Every Facilitator — The Direction Facilitator Experience
Each Facilitator receives a Direction Facilitator Box — equipped with everything needed to hold the sacred space for every Small Communal Gathering across the full 180-day Journey.
Inside: the Facilitator Guide, Facilitator Journal, sand timers, Discernment Prompt Cards, incense, anointing oil, and supporting tools designed to guide without directing and lead without performance.
Facilitators are not teachers. They are not counselors. They are not expected to have answers.
They are the holders of the space where God meets people.
Every element in their box serves that purpose. The sand timers protect the silence. The Discernment Prompt Cards guide without directing. The Journal carries what remains between gatherings. The oils mark each threshold the group crosses—volume by volume, from consecration to commissioning.
What Facilitators bring into the room each week — their preparation, their presence, their willingness to hold space without filling it — is what makes the gathering sacred rather than scheduled.
Three independent disciplines. One architecture. The same answer.
WHY 180 DAYS? WHY SIX VOLUMES? WHY THIS?
Because information has never been the problem.
Real transformation — of belief, behavior, and identity — takes time. Not weeks. Months.
Direction is structured the same way. On purpose.
It follows the same arc found across three independent disciplines — how people learn, how people change, and how people are spiritually formed. Each arrives at the same conclusion:
Transformation requires progression, participation, and time.
Most Bible studies stop at understanding. Direction does not.
It is built to carry people all the way through — awareness, surrender, reformation, integration, and sustained living.
That is why it cannot be shortened.
Not because it is long.
Because it is complete.
Why trust someone you've never heard of with your flock?
Dr. Wylette Williams is not a platform-driven voice. She is a practitioner — someone who has spent decades studying how people change in real, communal environments.
But Direction was not built from theory.
It was built through obedience.
Only after it was complete was it examined against established frameworks in education, spiritual formation, and adult learning theory — and found to align.
Not by design.
By convergence.
Direction was not written from a stage. It was written from a valley.
For the people sitting in your pews right now — who are quietly wondering if anything is actually changing. And for the pastor who refuses to stop believing it can.
The Investment — Entering the Direction Journey
Direction is not scaled by church size.
It is carried by a cohort.
Each church enters the Journey with a defined group of participants—moving together through the full 180-day experience, held in rhythm through Small and Large Gatherings.
This is what allows the work to go deep.
Not because more people are involved—
but because those who are, are fully present.
Lasting Transformation
This is not a program your church will look back on as something you did.
It is a season your people will look back on as something that changed them.
The new believer will have roots they did not have before.
The wanderer will have found their way back through something more durable than motivation.
The mature believer who arrived in drought will have discovered that the water was never gone.
And the unsure — the one who has been watching carefully from a distance — will have stepped across a threshold they may not yet be able to fully name.
But you will see it on their face.
That is what you are saying yes to.
Cohort-Based Structure
Direction is designed to be experienced in cohorts — a defined group of participants walking the full 180-day Journey together.
Investment is determined based on the number of participants in your cohort.
Because each church context is different and this work is entered into with intention, pricing is determined in conversation — based on your church's context, cohort size, and season.
Every participant. Every gathering. Every season. Held together.
This is not a study your church completes.
This is a Journey your people walk.
Over 180 days, your congregation is not simply learning Scripture—they are being formed by it.
This is not measured in pages read or sessions attended.
It is seen in what changes.
In the person who no longer returns to what once held them.
In the conversations that deepen.
In the quiet evidence of a life reordered around obedience.
This is not a program layered onto your church.
It becomes part of the ground your church stands on.
An Invitation
Direction is not for every church in every season. And it was never intended to be.
If you are considering bringing this Journey into your congregation, the next step is not to purchase — but to begin a conversation.
A space to ask questions. To discern readiness. And to determine whether this is the right time for your church to enter in.
Start with this.
How Your Church Enters the Journey
Step 1 — Register Your Church Online Pastoral leadership completes the Church registration through directionseries.com. You will select your cohort size, confirm your gathering schedule, and receive access to your Covenant Calendar template and the Direction Journey Roadmap — your structural guide for the full 180 days.
→ Registration opens your church's Journey and triggers your order.
Step 2 — Receive Your Church Stewardship Materials Your Church Leadership Box and Facilitator Boxes ship directly to your church. Inside you will find everything needed to steward the Journey — guides, planners, sacred materials, and the tools your Facilitators will carry into every gathering.
→ Your Kickoff Gathering is scheduled before boxes are ordered.
Step 3 — Host the Kickoff Gathering Your congregation gathers to receive their Direction Keepsake Boxes together. Shoes come off. Phones go into the basket. Frankincense rises. And 180 days of formation begins — not as a program launch, but as a consecration.
→ This is the moment your congregation steps across the threshold together.
Step 4 — Steward the 180-Day Journey Six volumes. Seven Big Tent Gatherings. Six Facilitator Meetings. A Covenant Calendar that holds the rhythm of the entire Journey. Your role is not to teach — it is to tend the ground while God does the work.
→ Every gathering, every oil, every sand timer — designed with intention
Step 5 — The Ceremony of Release & The After At the Journey's close, your Facilitators gather for the Ceremony of Release — a sacred moment of honoring, burning, and sending. Then Church Leadership meets privately with Dr. Wylette to share what God did.
→ The harvest belongs to everyone. The testimony belongs to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Direction-Church Edition is designed to scale. Whether your cohort is 30 participants or 300, the structure adapts. Cohort size is determined by your church and confirmed during your inquiry conversation.
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Privacy is foundational to how Direction works. Member Participants engage privately in their own sacred space. Small Communal Gatherings are non-disclosive — no one is required to share, explain, or perform their faith. What happens in the gathering stays in the gathering. Facilitators are selected for discretion and held to a covenant of confidentiality throughout the Journey.
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Investment is determined based on your cohort size and church context. Pricing is discussed during your inquiry conversation — because the right investment depends on your specific season, size, and readiness. Begin by downloading Before the Yes or reaching out directly at hello@polarispress.org.
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From your first inquiry to the Kickoff Gathering typically takes 6 to 8 weeks. The Journey itself is 180 days. We recommend planning your Kickoff at least 60 days in advance to allow adequate time for registration, box fulfillment, and Facilitator preparation.
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The Church Edition is designed as a communal, committed Journey. Group participation is not optional — it is the structure. Each member who joins agrees to attend their formation group sessions as part of their commitment to the journey.
A member who is not ready for that commitment is not yet ready for the Church Edition — and that is not a failure. The individual Direction Series Journey is available at directionseries.com and may be exactly the right first step for them.
The Church Edition works because everyone in the room chose to be there.
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You are not alone. Church Leadership receives both the Direction-Church Edition Church Leadership Guide and the Church Leadership Planner — your operational and pastoral companions throughout the entire 180-day Journey. And when the Journey concludes, Dr. Wylette meets personally with Church Leadership to hear what God did. That conversation is part of the experience.
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Direction is designed with this in mind. The Facilitator rotation model means that Facilitators serve one volume at a time — so transitions are natural rather than disruptive. Church Leadership is equipped through the Church Leadership Guide to navigate Facilitator transitions with minimal impact to the Member Participants they serve.
YOUR CONGREGATION IS READY.
The question is whether this is the season.
Direction does not require a perfect church.
It requires a willing one.
A pastor who believes that the people sitting in those pews on Sunday morning are capable of more than they are currently experiencing.
A congregation that is ready to show up — not to perform, but to be formed.
If that is your church —
we would be honored to walk alongside you.
