Our Mission: `Iwa Collaborative exists to empower kingdom-grounded leaders to navigate change, grow adaptive capacity, and foster local flourishing.

About Us

Leaders and organizations often have to hold two things together:
a birdʻs eye view of the whole of their work and a rootedness on
the ground born out of deep relationships in people’s lives.

The ʻiwa (pronounced ee-vah) bird flies so high to look for food and pay attention to its surroundings that it can soar for days or weeks. However, the ʻiwa bird will eat with other birds and nest low to the ground

We specialize in helping communities to center discipleship and make discipleship pathways to connect disciples to their local mission. 

And, we help remission established organizations that are trying to adapt their culture to seek the flourishing of their local communities.

Whether your church, business, or non-profit is looking for help
to see the big picture or make a plan to change things on the ground
we want to help you mature from the inside out.

Meet the Team

  • Josh Hayden (he/him) finds great joy in empowering organizations to live on mission in order to live out their mission.  Josh has over 20 years in organizational leadership and has worked and led in non-profit, church plant, and established church settings.  Josh studied leadership and organizational change while writing Creative Destruction: Towards a Theology of Institutions to receive a doctorate from Duke Divinity School.  He is also the author of Sacred Hope, a book designed to foster conversation around the role of hope in our lives. His newest book Remissioning Church: A Field Guide for Bringing a Congregation Back to Life (IVP) will be out 2025! He is a sought out voice of leadership, both in the church, ecumenically-wide denominations, seminaries, national network boards and local community boards.  He is married to his best friend and high school sweetheart, Shéy, and they have two sons, Rowan and Eli, who are the best part of their every day. 

    Rev. Dr. Hayden has a unique focus on helping remission established churches and organizations so that they can navigate change with purpose. Josh has been the director and developer of the Remissioning Collective (neé Learning Cohort), a 30 week learning experience that brings 5-8 established church pastors and intentional interim pastors to journey together on the courageous and innovative work of remissioning the Church since 2018.  In addition, he has developed countless tools, policies and protocols that systematically and practically help Church Leadership navigate change well. 

    Connect with Josh: josh@iwacollaborative.com

  • Eun K. Strawser (she/her) is the co-vocational lead pastor of Ma Ke Alo o (which means "Presence" in Hawaiian), non-denominational missional communities multiplying in Honolulu, HI, a community physician at Ke Ola Pono, and an executive board member of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) with 20 years in both local and trans-local church planting work at executive levels. Prior to transitioning to Hawaii, she served as adjunct professor of medicine at the Philadelphia College of Medicine and of African Studies at her alma mater the University of Pennsylvania (where she and her husband served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship) after finishing her Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Dar es Salaam. She is the author of Centering Discipleship: A Pathway for Multiplying Spectators into Mature Disciples (IVP). She and Steve have three, seriously, amazing children.

    Rev. Dr. Strawser has nearly two decades of experience in centering discipleship and making mature missional disciples.  She has developed lay counseling curriculum, discipleship pathways for children's ministries, and discipleship pathways utilized both in established church and church-planting contexts.  While her heart is in locally-rooted kingdom work, she also consults and coaches pastors, planters and market-place/community leaders world-wide in developing discipleship pathways and structuring their context to center discipleship.

    Connect with Eun: eun@iwacollaborative.com

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