The Isaiah Partnership (IP) is a project funded by the 2021 Lilly Endowment Inc. Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative and is administered by the Princeton Theological Seminary Office of Continuing Education, in partnership with The Changemaker Initiative of Los Altos, California. We believe that clergy and their congregations can, by intention, relationship and discipline, become partners in God’s transformative work in communities and in the world. The IP models that will be used in this project start with the assumption that pastoral and lay partnership is critical to congregational leadership. This project will involve two (2) cohorts of pastors and lay church partners from a total of twelve (12) churches, who will train in models of innovation and change. The project will also provide the faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary an opportunity to study and discuss a theological framework for innovation and change, as well as to observe, test and learn from these models of pastoral leadership formation that foster innovation and change. Both the church and the academy will work together in this joint effort to develop a blueprint for innovation and change in, with and through congregations and in pastoral leadership formation.