Purpose Quest

Welcome to Purpose Quest!

Purpose Quest is a seven-session group process designed to help you prayerfully explore God's purpose for your life and how he may be calling you to serve him where you already live and work. This is not a course or class with lectures. Instead, it is an interactive, prayerful process where four to eight people gather to reflect on what God is doing in their lives, share honestly with one another, and grow through accountability, feedback, Scripture, and prayer. 

Before the cohort begins, registration includes a brief presentation about the Purpose Quest process and what to expect. Once a cohort of four to eight committed participants is formed, participants will work together to determine the best days and times for the seven sessions, which typically last about 90 minutes.

Important registration information:

1. There is no financial cost, but participants are asked to commit to all seven sessions unless there is a serious reason for absence. Homework between meetings typically requires one to two and a half hours of personal reflection and preparation.
2. When registering, please provide your name, phone number, email, location, and time zone. Once a group is ready to begin, participants will be added to a WhatsApp group chat to communicate and determine the best meeting time for everyone.

After Purpose Quest, once or twice a year, all alumni are invited to optional in-person retreats for mutual encouragement, prayer, accountability, breakthrough, and fellowship. These retreats are mostly funded by this account, with other giving making them possible.

The vision of Purpose Quest is to equip people throughout Europe to serve the Lord in a more focused way, where they already live and work. It is a marketplace ministry that empowers Jesus followers in fellowship, as well as deep self-awareness toward Christlike maturity and missions.

Over the past 20 years, we have been developing a group-based, deep-dive personal reflection toward God's purpose. Each cohort involves 4-8 committed people willing to be honest with themselves, God and one another. The cohort process includes accountability, feedback, and prayer in community. No one goes it alone in God's kingdom. 

Unlike many personality and gift inventories and mentoring systems, Purpose Quest is focused on Scripture and listening prayer, connecting with the Author of life, the Vine. It also looks at the past in order to chart the course forward. God showed the Israelites how to gather from history to learn and grow. The people of God were marked by key turning points. For example, Moses and the burning bush (Exodus 3), Balaam’s talking donkey (Numbers 2), Gideon and the angel of the Lord (Judges 6), tongues of fire falling on the believers gathered (Acts 2), each instance, reminding Israelites of how Adonai led and provided for them. Such remembrances boosted their faith and sharpened their true identity.



Afterward, there is follow-up. Some will pray for and find mentors and mentees, and all should have an accountability group of 2-4 that meets regularly to set goals, check in, and pray. Once or twice a year, all alums will come together to pray and listen for and with one another and stay sharp and on track. On these retreats, we will also tune up our accountability groups and perhaps find partners in that process. 

Gifts to this ministry facilitate all of the above, especially the retreats that might be inaccessible to some alums.