Workshop Schedule:

The workshop may also be conducted on a weekend according to the following schedule:
Friday 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Saturday 9:30 a.m. - 11:30a.m.
Saturday 12:30p.m. - 2:30 p.m.


Additional workshop sessions may be scheduled and can include the Sunday assembly.

Workshop Format:

The first hour of each session consists of a presentation of basic church growth principles for your congregation. Your workshop will include the following three presentations:
• Generational Issues Affecting Growth

• Chacteristics of Growing Churches

• New Testament Principles of Effective Evangelism

Individualized Features:

The second hour of each session consists of the special individualized features listed below:
• An analysis of the ten-year growth pattern of your congregation from data furnished beforehand.

• Identification of the major needs and hurts of people in your community and suggested outreach programs to meet those needs.

• Determination of the major growth restricting barriers facing your congregation at this time.

Yes. Effective growth comes, not from copying what some other congregation has done, but from learning to apply basic church growth principles to one's own situation. Several congregations have already experienced their highest annual growth rate in ten years after applying principles from this workshop.

What is the Cost?

The Center for Church Growth is a non profit corporation. Our workshop fees pay only a small fraction of what it costs to offer our services. The fee is based on the congregation's size. These fees are negotiable because we want the workshop to be affordable to every congregation.

The Center for Church Growth is a ministry to the local congregation. We could not continue to serve without significant financial gifts from individuals and churches concerned about the growth of God's Kingdom.

What Others Say. . .

• "Your effort with us could not have been matched by any other. We believe that the Center for Church Growth will be a great tool for the Lord's church."
  
  Andrew O. Brewster, Minister
  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

• "The response of our members says it best. They were excited, uplifted, convicted, ready to get to work. Some had been bordering on marginality. They'd been finding handy excuses to neglect the work and worship of the church. Now some of those marginal members are on the goal screening committee appointed by our elders to put into place the suggestions made during our workshop."
  
  Jody Vickery, Minister
  Riverdale, Georgia

• "I highly recommend the Congregational Growth Workshop. It offers both biblical foundations and sound principles for church growth. It did much more than pinpoint areas of weakness; the workshop enabled our own members to establish goals and to provide practical suggestions that will lead to outreach, ministry, and growth. The workshop is a most helpful tool."
  
  Dan Dozier, Minister
  Kansas City, Missouri

  "I was glad to see that the growth workshop was indeed a workshop' in that it involves the people. One of the continual praises I am hearing is that the members are made to feel they have an important part in planning the direction this Church should go. I foresee many great things to come as a result of the time you spent with us."
  

  Anthony L.Bryant, Minister
  Denison, Texas

• "The workshop accomplished just what I prayed it would. It helped the brethren see that churches can grow in this society if they want to, and there are ways to make it happen. I can see some real positive things happening in the church here as a result of the workshop. I think it will be a turning point for this congregation."
  
  Gene McKnight, Minister
  Crockett, Texas

• "The workshop you conducted for our congregation was truly of exemplary quality. Our members were very much inspired as a result of your excellent guidance to examine new horizons for Church Growth."
  
  Dean Carlton, Elder
  Redlands, California