Experience Matters, SO Does Listening
I’m Allen Kleine Deters, B.R.E., MDiv.
My ministry journey has included senior pastoral leadership, church planting, congregational life, discipleship development, and small groups. Along the way, I’ve had the privilege of coaching leaders, developing volunteers, guiding teams, and walking alongside people through pastoral care, spiritual formation, Healing Care, and Formational Prayer.
Those experiences have deepened my conviction that discipleship involves the whole person. Our relationships, emotional health, wounds, questions, and everyday choices all matter as we grow in Christ. Healthy churches make room for that journey, offering grace, truth, and a caring community where people can experience healing and learn to follow Jesus together.
KD Formation Group grew from that passion.
Grounded in Jesus’ call to make disciples in Matthew 28, we come alongside churches and Christian organizations to strengthen leaders, nurture healthy cultures, and develop clear pathways for discipleship. Through thoughtful assessment, honest conversations, coaching, and practical training, we help leaders discern where they are and take faithful steps forward—including through seasons of transition and renewal.
Whether working with an individual leader, a staff team, or a congregation, I bring a pastoral heart, an organizational mind, a sense of humour, and a conviction that healthy transformation begins from the inside out.
Our desire is to help churches cultivate a life together in which following Jesus shapes everything—and his love and hope reach into neighbourhoods and everyday relationships.
Founded by Allen and Karen Kleine Deters, KD Formation Group brings a pastoral heart and decades of ministry experience to helping churches and Christian organizations become healthy disciple-making communities—where whole people are nurtured, leaders are equipped, and following Jesus becomes a way of life.
About Us
A Team Approach
Alongside Allen is his wife, Karen, whose professional and ministry experience brings another important dimension to the work of KD Formation Group.
Karen, BSN Hons, is a retired Registered Nurse with 35 years of experience, including roles as a resource nurse, educator, mentor, coach, and change-management leader.
Karen's passion is to see people be transformed by the work of Holy Spirit. She is trained in Formational Prayer, Healing Care, and Spiritual Formation, bringing together her clinical experience, relational wisdom, and deep understanding of how people grow and change. Her background in healthcare has given her a particular appreciation for the whole person—mind, body, spirit, relationships, and environment—and for the importance of walking with people through seasons of change.
As a CAP Money coach and trainer, Karen also brings practical expertise in helping individuals and families develop healthier approaches to financial stewardship and decision-making.
Karen is committed to offering a safe place, investing in people, and positioning them to encounter Jesus. She believes that through formational prayer Jesus provides healing and wholeness in people's lives.
Together, Allen and Karen bring a unique blend of pastoral leadership, healthcare experience, spiritual formation, organizational development, coaching, mentoring, and change management. Their combined experience allows KD Formation Group to approach transformation not simply as a matter of strategy or structure, but as a deeply human and spiritual process.
Consulting and Coaching
CHURCH CONSULTING
Helping Churches Become Healthy Disciple-Making Communities
When working with churches we always start with the most important question, "How is your church a disciple-making community?"
Church leadership is increasingly complex.
Pastors are expected to be theologians, communicators, counsellors, strategists, organizational leaders, culture builders, conflict mediators, fundraisers, visionaries—and somehow still have time to prepare Sunday’s sermon.
That’s a fairly ambitious job description.
Often an experienced outside perspective can help.
KD Formation Group works alongside pastors, boards, elders, staff teams, and ministry leaders to help churches understand where they are, clarify where God may be leading them, and develop practical strategies for moving forward.
We help churches address areas such as:
Church health
Organizational structure
Discipleship Culture
Leadership culture
Leadership transitions
Staff alignment
Small groups
Volunteer engagement
Congregational care
Governance
Vision and strategy
Church revitalization
Conflict
Growth and organizational change
We don’t arrive with a predetermined formula.
We listen first.
Because every congregation has a history, culture, calling, community, strengths, wounds, opportunities, and challenges that need to be understood before solutions are prescribed.
Listen deeply. Discern wisely. Lead courageously.
COACHING
Sometimes Leaders Need A Place To Think Out Loud
Leadership can be surprisingly lonely.
The more responsibility a leader carries, the fewer places there are where they can speak openly about uncertainty, conflict, frustration, calling, transition, and difficult decisions.
KD Formation Group provides confidential coaching for pastors, ministry leaders, executives, and organizational leaders.
Coaching creates space to:
Clarify priorities and decisions
Build greater confidence
Establish healthier rhythms
Navigate difficult relationships
Develop leadership skills
Identify blind spots
Process organizational challenges
Lead through transition
Strengthen emotional and spiritual health
Clarify calling and direction
For Christian leaders, coaching can intentionally incorporate prayer, spiritual discernment, Scripture, and attention to the leader’s relationship with God.
You don't have to lead alone
Our Mission
To Help Churches Become Disciple-Making Communities
Our Vision
We envision churches and Christian organizations flourishing as healthy disciple-making communities—where people are formed in the likeness of Jesus, leaders equip others to grow and serve, and faith is lived out in everyday relationships, making disciples, and transforming communities through the love and hope of Christ.
Our Values
We are dedicated to forming leaders, strengthening churches, and transforming lives through holistic formation and biblical principles.