360 Pastor draws on several threads of experience. David Clark, from Minnesota, and Paul Feiler, from Texas, formed Damascus Road Collaborative in 2023. They wanted to friends to pastors and to help their churches. So they recruited three friends to design and implement a strategy of teaching seminars and individual coaching. In 2023, they launched a pilot project with 44 churches.

After the pilot project, Paul decided to continue the Damascus Road work in Texas. David decided to launch 360 Pastor in Minnesota, continuing with a similar strategy.

Because the pilot was so successful, 360 Pastor continues to help churches flourish by teaching and coaching their pastors in effective spiritual leadership. The core teaching is rooted in biblical wisdom, rigorous leadership research, and wide ministry experience. 360 Pastor benefits from the significant success of Damascus Road.

In addition, 360 Pastor engaged a strategic partnership with the Eagle Brook Association, a like-minded ministry dedicated to training pastors around the world. EBA has 20 years of outstanding service to pastors. Together, building on both these this sources experience, the EBA/360 Pastor partnership has developed a seamless experience of seminar learning and one-on-one coaching for pastors.

The friends who started 360 Pastor still share a deep love for Christ, for local churches, and for their pastors. They offer this ministry free of charge to pastors because we want nothing to come in the way of growing their success. The shared passion of all these ministries—to help local churches fulfill God’s mission by training their pastors—lives on with the EBA/360 Pastor partnership.