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 | Foreword - Robert J. Suderman |
| What Is Natural Church Development? An Introduction - Ronald W. Waters |
| Natural Church Development and the New Testament: Comparison and Assessment - Tom Yoder Neufeld |
| Marks of the Faithful Church–Marks of the Successful Church: A Response to Natural Church Development from a Missiological and Ecclesiological Perspective - Lois Y. Barrett |
| Response to Natural Church Development: A Strategic Comparison - Gerald Shenk |
| Reports of the Listening Committee - Steve Clapp, Tara Hornbacker, Fred Finks |
| Response from Natural Church Development Consultants - Ronald W. Waters |
| Record of the Proceedings |
Back to the Basics - People
Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Being
Proactive Makes a Difference
-
NLM Report/Steve Clapp & Kristen Leverton Helbert
Characteristics
of a Healthy Church - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Church Culture - People
Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Churches Have
Personalities - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Church Is Hard Work
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Church Mergers - Article/Dan
Reiland
Christmas Celebrations
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Coffeeshop
Connections - Leadership Journal/David Swanson
Common Mistakes in Introducing
Change
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Comprehensive Care
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Congregational
Morale and Church Growth -
NLM Report/Steve Clapp & Kristen Leverton Helbert
Contrasting
Church Renewal and Church Planting, Part 1 - Church Renewal - People
Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Culture of the
Denomination - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Cyber-Vitamins, the Web, and the Church -
Article/Steve Clapp
Defending or Attacking? - People
Spots/Ray Baum
Direction of the Flow - People
Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Do You Want Your Church to Grow?
People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Dysfunctional
Architecture - Article/J. David Schmidt
Evaluating Your Church's Ministry -
People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Exit Interviews & Other Healthy Church Strategies - NLM Report/Steve
Clapp & Kristen Leverton Helbert
Farming a Community
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Growing Pains:
Handling a "Pioneer-Homesteader" Crisis - Article/Tom Wymore
Growth Issues: Spiritual Warfare
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Healthy Sunday School–Growing Church -
NLM Report/Steve Clapp & Kristen Leverton Helbert
I Have to Be in Control!
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Ideas That Work
- Ideas
Identifying and Recruiting
Prospects - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Institutional
Maintenance Checklist - Self-Assessment Tool/Steve Clapp
Institutional
Maintenance: Does It Drain Your Congregation? - NLM Report/Steve Clapp
& Kristen Leverton Helbert
Institution
vs. Mission - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Intentionality - People
Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Involving Laity in Ministry - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Involving
People in Ministry - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
It's Advent - People Spots/James W.
Moss, Sr.
Keeping People Who Visit -
People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Large
Churches Part 1 and Part
2 - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Loneliness
Is Epidemic - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Merging
Isn't a Growth Strategy! - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Mid-size
Churches Part 1 and Part
2 - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
A
Ministry of Affirmation - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Multiple Worship Services - FAQs
No Quick Fixes - People
Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Normal Attrition - People
Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Open
the Doors, Let 'Em In: 10 Ways to Open Your Doors to the Community
- OnlineRev.com
On
the Attack - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Our
Sunday School is Slipping! - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Peace, Justice, and Church Growth -
NLM Report/Steve Clapp & Kristen Leverton Helbert
People Participation -
People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
People Spots: A Definition -
People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Personal Renewal - People
Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Reaching Young Adults - NLM
Report/Steve Clapp & Kristen Leverton Helbert
Reasonable Expectations
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Remember What It Takes
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Requirements for
Serious Expansion
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Riding the "Mo" Train
- Article/John Maxwell
Saturation - People Spots/James W
Moss, Sr.
Small Churches Part 1
and Part 2
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Starting a New Service - People
Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Telephone Visitation Program
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
The River: a case
study in starting a new worship service - Ronald W.
Waters
Thinking Christmas
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Thinking
of Building? - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Touches,
Touches, and More Touches - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Trading Inactives?
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Turning Around a Congregation -
Article/Dan Reiland
Understanding
Churches of Choice - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Understanding
Culture - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Understanding Our Changing World
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Understanding Outreach Today -
People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Understanding Quality
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Understanding Renewal
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Understanding Saturation
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Walking People through the Door
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr
When
Do People Begin to Feel Crowded? - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
An
Anabaptist Look at Natural Church Development -
AEC Presentations
Anabaptist Witness in a Postmodern Society -
AEC Presentations
Building a Multicultural Congregation
- G. Edwin Bontrager
Church for the 21st Century - Video
Church of Recovery - Sam Detwiler and
Steve Clapp
Creating Quality in Ministry - Steve
Clapp and Cindy Hollenberg Snider
Discovering a Vision - Module
Expanding Christian Community - Module
Fifty Ways to Reach Young Singles, Couples,
and Families - Steve Clapp
Following in the Footsteps of Paul - G.
Edwin Bontrager
Guide to Hospitality for Greeters and Ushers
- S. Joan Hershey
Hospitality and the Vital Church -
Video
Hospitality: Life without
Fear - Steve Clapp and Fred Bernhard
How to Start a New Service - W.
Charles Arn
Invite a Friend Kit -
Kit/S. Joan Hershey
LifeQuest Congregational Profile
LifeQuest Congregational Survey
New Vitality for the Small Church -
Kit/Jim Kinsey
One Hundred Ways to Reach Young Singles, Couples,
and Families - Steve Clapp
Overcoming Barriers to Church Growth - Steve
Clapp
Practical Strategies for Servant
Evangelism - Andrew Center Staff
Public Relations Kit: Help from a Hospitality
Perspective - Kit/Kristen
Leverton Helbert and Dick Benner
Reaching Out through Christian Education -
Steve Clapp and Jerry O. Cook
Revitalizing Christian
Education - Kit/Steve Clapp and Jerry O. Cook
Riding the River–Congregational Outreach and the
Currents of the 21st Century - Paul Mundey
Unlocking Church Doors: 10 Keys to Positive
Change - Paul Mundey
Vital
Congregations Package - six titles for the price of five!
Welcoming New People - Module
Widening the Welcome of Your Church - Fred
Bernhard and Steve Clapp
Churches
Have Personalities - James W. Moss, Sr.
Unlocking
Church Doors: 10 Keys to Positive Change - Paul
Mundey
Links to Church Growth/Church Health Organizations
Links to Geo-Demographic Resources
Links to Large Churches
Professional
Organizations and Publications
Resource Centers for Church Growth and Evangelism
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Christian
Community
ChurchConstruction.com
CoachNet®
ElmerTowns.com
- many of his books available online
Multi-Site Churches
The Phone's
for You
Renewing Pastor and People
- Ashland Theological Seminary
Servant Leadership for Church
Renewal
Shalom Foundation - source
for Together newspaper & outreach postcards
HealthyChurch.net - the CHAT assessment tool, related to Becoming a
Healthy Church (Stephen A. Macchia, Baker Books, 2005)
Natural Church Development - the NCD
assessment tool, related to the work of Christian Schwarz
M1 Data &
Analytics
New Neighbor List
New Residents
Welcome Card
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Ways to Increase Baptisms - Rick Warren
A Place of
Welcome - good idea! (Spring 1999) Interview with Ed Dallow
A Visitor's Experience: The
First Five Minutes - OnlineRev.com
Aim Young - Rev.org/Tim
Stevens
All in the
Family Is Now Grey's Anatomy - LeadershipJournal.net/Chad
Hall
An Artful Approach to Sharing God's Truth - Outreach (Fall
2002)/Bob Newman
Are We
Overweight or Pregnant? - Vineyard Central/Kevin Rains
Authentic Church Membership Assessment - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Ken
Sande
Barna
Research Online's "Top 40" Data Categories"
Becoming a Healing Community - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Margaret
Josephson Rinck
Big
Events, Small Budget
- Outreach/Debra
Akins and Lindy Warren
Bigger Buildings?
– purposedriven.com/Rick Warren
Big Sunday
- LeadershipJournal.net/Elizabeth Diffin
Building a Baptism
Culture in Your Church - Pastors.com/Kristine Noelle
Building Healthy Church Esteem - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Dave Owen
Building Lifestyle Circles - Pastors.com/Dave Holden
Characteristics of Healthy Churches - various authors
Church
Facilities Facts Sheets - Baptist General Convention of Texas
Church Growth: State of the Art - C. Peter Wagner, editor, with Win
Arn & Elmer Towns (complete book online)
Church
Health: Second- and Third-Opinions - OnLineRev.com
Church
Hopping - FaithWorks/Amanda Phifer
Churches on the Cutting Edge: Five Innovative Approaches to Ministry -
BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Eric Reed
Churches
Responding to the Age Wave: Ministry to Retirees by Retirees
- Leadership Network/Amy Hanson
Community
Needs Assessment Process - North
American Mission Board (SBC)
Countdown to
Summer Festival - LeadershipJournal.net/Warren Bird
Coming Home: Report on a Study of the "De-Churched" - Outreach
(July/August 2007)/Thom Rainer & Sam Rainer
Discerning Your Church's Hidden Core Values - Leadership/Angie
Ward (also see
9 Clues to Secret Core Values)
Does the Vision Really Come
First? - next-wave (Aug 2003)/Dave Ferguson
Do Pastors
Exaggerate Attendance Figures? - Crosswalk.com/Ray Pritchard
Dorothean
Charisma: Strategy for Congregational Renewal - Ministry Health/Thomas
F. Fischer
Easter - Capturing
the Attention of Your City - pastors.com/Steve Sjogren
Easter - Emerging
Generation Church Looks to Old Classic for Easter Outreach
- pastors.com/Stephen Alligood
Easter - 10 Outreach
Ideas - pastor.com/Brad Lewis
Eastertime Outreach -
Change of Pace
- OnlineRev.com
Eight
Ways to Maximize Your Space - Your Church (November/December
2000)/Rick Bettilyon
Evaluating Your Church on Purpose Part 1 - Pastors.com/Tom Holliday
Evaluating Your Church on Purpose Part 2 - Pastors.com/Tom Holliday
Event
Evangelism: Demanding the [Right Kind of] Attention of a Fidgety Society
- OnMission.com (Jul-Aug 2002)/Toby Frost
First Impressions of Your Church
- Rev.com/Todd Rhoades
Five
Key Characteristics of Thriving Congregations - Richard Webb
Five Kinds of
Christians - study by Leadership (Fall 2007)/Helen Lee
Four
Marks of a Deeper Church - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Peter Larson
Getting
Beyond the Numbers Game - Christianity Today (August 7,
2000)/James F. Engel . . . and read this reasoned response: The
Right Use of Statistics 2 - Network for Strategic Missions/Justin Long
Getting the Unchurched from the "Street to the Seat" - Pastors.com/Kerry
Mackey
Growing Pains: Overcoming the Top Five Growth Barriers - Outreach/Nelson
Searcy
Help Your
Pastor Build a Better Church - Titus Ministries/Andrew
L. Acquistapace
How Full Is Your Net?
- Article/Dan Reiland
How
to Get Your Community's Attention - Pastors.com/Rick Warren
How
to Increase Baptisms at Your Church - Pastors.com/Rick Warren
How
to Recognize Spiritual Receptivity in Your Community - Pastors.com/Rick
Warren
I Like Jesus, Not the Church - Book Excerpt/Dan Kimball
If
You Build It, Will They Come? - Your Church (Jan-Feb 2000)/John
R. Throop
Impact in a Changing
Community: Finding People Who Need Good News the Most - Grow
Intervention
in Dysfunctional Organizations - Ministry Health/Thomas F. Fischer
Is Your Church
a Good Neighbor? - Leadership (Spring 2002)/Eric Swanson
Is Your Church "Externally
Focused"?
- Rev.org/Todd Rhoades
Is Your Church Too Busy? Pastors.com/Thom Rainer
Jammin' at the Jail
- Grow
Lessons Learned from the Past Twenty-Five Years of Church Growth -
GlobalPastorsNetwork.org/Elmer Towns
Lifecycle of Too Many
Churches - Titus Ministries
Meet Donna and
Joe - a case study from Surprising Insights from
the Unchurched and Proven Ways to Reach Them - Thom S. Rainer
Megachurch Database
- Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Megachurch Research: New Research Debunks 11 Myths
- Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Membership Matters
- PastorResources.com/Chuck Lawless
Ministering
with "My Generation" - Leadership (Fall 2000)/Eric
Reed
Ministries among Today's Women - Leadership Journal/Naomi Gaede
Penner
Multi-Site Churches Links
Nine
Clues to Secret Core Values (follow-up to
Discerning Your Church's Hidden Core Values)
Nine
Habits of Churches that Reach and Keep the Unchurched - Baptist Press/pastors.com/Michael
Foust.
One
Megachurch's Manifest Destiny - Regeneration Quarterly (Spring
2000)/Jenny Staff Johnson
Open the Doors, Let 'em
In: Ten Ways to Open Your Doors to the Community - onlineRev.com
Preparing Your Church to Evangelize - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Doug
Murren & Mike Meeks
Religious
Congregations and Membership Study 2000 – Glenmary Research Center &
RCMS/Dale Jones
Restarting
a Dead Church - The Planter (Aug 1990)/Ralph F. Wilson
Restored
to Life - Your Church (November/December 2000)/John
Stahlman
Resurrecting the Lazarus Church - Outreach (Mar-Apr 2005)/Amy
Eckert
Revitalization:
Barriers and Foundations - rca.org
Second Impressions - Leadership (Summer 2002)/Charles Arn
Seven Ways to Keep Church Hoppers from Staying - Brian Jones
Share-a-Dozen-Long-Stemmed-Chocolate-Chip-Cookies-with-a-Friend
Sunday - Net Results/Kathi L. Heim
Should We
Fret the Back Door? - Leadership Journal/Adam Hamilton
Simple,
Inexpensive Ways to Reach New Families - OnLineRev.com/Scott
Evans
Social Action as the Foundation for Outreach - Outreach
Ten Common
Barriers to Growing Your Church - pastors.com/Rick Warren
Ten Questions to Evaluate
Outreach - Rev.org/Lynne Marian
Ten Surprises about the Unchurched - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Thom
Rainer (also available in two parts:
Part
1 and
Part
2)
Ten Ways
Prison Ministry Promotes Church Growth - Growing Churches (Winter
1998)/Phil Van Auken
The Church as Subversive
Community
- next-wave (May-June 2002)/Mike Bishop
The Complete Book of Church Growth - Elmer Towns (entire book
online)
The Health
Sequence: Five Questions, Asked in the Right Order, Will Boost Your Church's
Vitality - Leadership (Winter 2003)/Roger Jenks
The Most Overlooked Key to Growing a Church - Rick Warren
The Parent Factor: Arrival of Children Opens the Door to Church -
Outreach (Mar/Apr 2006)/Melissa Hambrick
The
Principle of Big Sunday - missionevangelism.org/David S. Thornhill
The
Prodigal-Hugging Church
– Strategies for Today’s Leader (1st Quarter 2002)/Tim Wright
The Reproducing Church
- BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Dave Ferguson
The
Right Use of Statistics 2 - Network for Strategic Missions/Justin Long
The Visiting Team - OnLineRev.com
This Way of Life—A
Rethinking of Acts 2:42 - next-wave magazine (Jan 2003)/Mike
Bishop
Three
Church Growth Myths - Leadership Weekly
Newsletter (Feb 21 2001)/John C. LaRue, Jr.
Too
Little or Too Much Room for Growth - Flavil Yeakley
Transforming
Our Nation: Empowering the Canadian Churches for a Greater Harvest -
Various Authors (1998; a new edition is in preparation for publication in 2004;
this is the original version) (pdf)
Transforming the Local Church–Article or Outline
- Dave Loughery
Turning Attendees into Part of the Family - Pastors.com/Rick Warren
Unchurched in America: A Profile - George Barna
Unpacking a Ministry to Disabled Persons - Pastors.com/Joni Eareckson
Tada
Video Cafes - VideoCafes.org
Ways to Make Your
Facilities Practical - OnLineRev.com
We Aren't about Weekends - ChristianVisionProject.com/interview with Bob
Roberts
Whatever It Takes Churches - OnMission.com (Jan-Feb 2003)/Connie
Cavanaugh
When Your Church Hits a Plateau - Pastors.com/Rick Warren
Will the Circle Be Broken? - Leadership Journal/Lyle Schaller
Will They Find You?
- BreakthroughChurch.com
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