If you don’t pay attention to the shifts taking place in the community in which your church is located, soon the church will become disconnected and irrelevant. Catalyst congregations used the ComparativeInsite reports to better understand...
Your District Missional Action Planning team (dMAP) is working to ensure that your church has the data it needs to develop meaningful relationships and ministry with your community using the ComparativeInsite report from MissionInsite...
Join us for this webinar where you will discover 4 opportunities for your congregation to take its next faithful step. During this webinar you will learn about the 4 Congregational Vitality Pathways, The Launch Initiative, the Catalyst...
Todd Bolsinger reassures leaders that they don't need fancy gadgets or expensive programming to move their church into the future. Rather, what is needed is strong adaptive leadership, a creative examination of a church’s best gifts and...
To be a church that survives and thrives in the wake of COVID-19 will require grace and guts, say those working in the field of New Faith Expressions.
Presenters: Douglas Powe, Jr., Ph.D. Director of Lewis Center for Church Leadership and James C. Logan Professor of Evangelism (E. Stanley Jones Chair) Wesley Theological Seminary Many congregations are struggling to move forward as vital...
Presenters: Rev. Bill Brown, Rev. William Chaney and Rev. Donna Claycomb Sokol COVID-19 has effectively wiped out the entire church calendar for the rest of 2020 yet the mission of the church to make disciples for Jesus Christ continues...
Many churches are stuck in a rut, have reached a plateau, or are declining. The temptation is to serve up the same exact ministry models that worked in another time and space but ultimately feel safe to existing churches. Many churches try and...
How can a congregation move beyond having a small percentage of congregants doing the lion’s share of the work? Lewis Center Director Doug Powe outlines four simple strategies to expand the pool of participants in your church’s ministry.
Why does the mainline church face such difficulty in reaching young adults. In an inter-generational exploration of faith and marketing the book Blank Slate offers some insights.
