Transformation – How do you know if it's for you?
1. You pray for more focus on ministry and mission
2. You pray for growth in spiritual formation
3. You pray for more worship attendance
4. You pray for unity (between members and other churches)
5. You pray for inspired and biblically literate members
6. You pray to find help in:
• Growing an outreach program
• Recruiting new members
• Assimilating new folk
• Recruiting new leaders
Transformation comes in different levels – here are three:
Level One – Making an existing program better
Level Two – Creating new programs / leaving old ones behind
Level Three – Creating a new congregation (same people, new outlooks)
Contact Committee members to help!
Download our brochure
The following links have been found by committee members to be helpful in studying church renewal:
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PCUSA announced a new website for Church Growth, Church Transformation and New Church Development. Check out www.presbygrow.net
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(517.629.9157) if you have questions, comments or would like to work with the Transformation and Redevelopment Committee.
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Church Growth Committee
Mission: To strengthen the Body of Christ within the Presbytery of Lake Michigan through the support of evangelism, church transformation and new communities of faith.
Strategies:
1. Take steps to create a holistic and proactive vision for evangelism, church transformation and new communities of faith that faithfully shares the Gospel.
2. Explore and encourage new funds for the transformation of existing congregations and the development of new communities of faith.
3. Discover, encourage, affirm and equip pastors, sessions and laity in evangelism, church transformation and new communities of faith.
4. Provide help for pastors, sessions and lay leaders to understand their opportunities in the life and health of the whole body, especially as it relates to churches seeking
transformation and those wishing to start new faith communities.
5. Support events that would bring in professional speakers to address issues in the fields of evangelism, church transformation and new communities of faith.
6. Provide education, financial and spiritual help for pastors and church leaders to enable them to train the laity as leaders in evangelism, the transformation of churches
and the starting of new faith communities.
7. Engage with the Committee on Ministry in the cooperative shaping of a Triennial Visit whose preparation and process provides congregations and clergy with resources for
evangelism, church transformation and new communities of faith.
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Church Growth
Comments
John was intrigued by the blog on
“Getting Young people into church” on
“relevantmagazi ne.com”
The New Christians by Tony Jones – a theology of emergent churches
A New Kind of Christ by Brian McClaren
A Primer on Postmodernism by Stanley Grenz – the first of a trilogy
Christianity for the Rest of Us by Diana Butler Bass
The emergent village online will send you a daily thought
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle
Presbymergent.org
The Churching of America by Roger Fink and Rodney Stark
http://www.sharefaith.com/ - multimedia worship aids
http://streamingchurch.tv – provides everything you need to broadcast your services live
TheCommon.org – offers a simple way for people to get and give help to their community
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