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Natural Church Development
A way of understanding church health and growth that views the church as a living organism. The focus is not on numerical growth, but on improving the health of the church, with the understanding–impressively documented by research–that when a church is sufficiently healthy, numerical growth will follow. A survey measures the health of a local church in eight areas that have been found to be essential to healthy church growth. The survey grows out of what was probably the most extensive study of church growth ever conducted, involving over 1000 churches in 32 countries on every continent except Antarctica. This study revealed a clear positive correlation between these eight Quality Characteristics and church growth. A process utilizing self-assessment and self-prescription for growth.
Coachnet International Ministries
Empowers Christian leaders to start, grow and multiply healthy congregations
The Church Ad Project
Provides creative, cost-effective advertising and marketing tools for churches including award-winning ads, posters, direct mail, and door-to-door marketing materials that have helped thousands of churches in their ministry of communicating with their members and local community.
Magnetic Church
Provides non-confrontational, practical evangelism events to help mainline and similar churches attract and retain new members by Andrew D. Weeks
Clergy Leadership Institute
Clergy training in appreciative inquiry, appreciative interim ministry, clergy search consulting, transformational coach training and leadership for managing change.
Church Welcome Signs
Via Media
An evangelism tool that presents the basic tenets of Christianity from an inclusive, Anglican approach to scripture, tradition, and reason, and leads the participants to a broader view of the journey of faith and the role that the Church can play in society.
Alpha
A ten-week practical introduction to the basics of Christianity with opportunity for debate and discussion.
Lombard Mennonite Peace Center
Offers workshops and training in the following:
Conflict Transformation Skills for Churches
Healthy Congregations
Facilitating Healthy Pastor-Congregation Relations
Leadership and Anxiety in the Church: A Family Systems Perspective
God's Own Peace: Systems Theory and Spirituality