Belmont University is the largest ecumenical Christian university in the state of Tennessee and is located in the heart of Nashville. As a member of this vibrant city, Belmont longs to be at the forefront of strengthening the work of local congregations in their efforts to thrive in the contextual settings in which they are found. The initial Thriving Congregations grant, named Project Thrive, successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of appreciative inquiry, congregational coaching, and our Seven Traits of Thriving Congregations as tools to assist congregations achieve thriving. Working with eighteen churches during the last five years, our processes demonstrated thriving as congregations applied their learnings across a breadth of areas from building use, identity, community engagement, and Christian practices. We learned an opportunity exists to continue this work with more direction creating opportunity for participating congregations to move from the appreciative inquiry and goal setting processes into specific paths for thriving futures, healthy transitions, depolarization, food security, community partners, and new opportunities. Now housed under the Moench Center for Church Leadership and renamed as Engaging Healthy Congregations, we plan to recruit fifteen congregations to participate in focused twelve-to-eighteen-month processes to discover paths to thriving.