Church Growth & Vitality

Articles Review: The Go-To Church
- By Eric Van Meter
- Posted on March 8th, 2013
According to Bryan Collier, the best way to grow a church in our current American context is not to try to attract adherents to a single site complex. Rather, it is to go out…
Blog Why Sermon Preparation is Important
- By Joseph Yoo
- Posted on February 4th, 2013
I was about half a year into my ﬁrst full-time ministry position. I was the Pastor of English Ministries at a Korean church in Aiea, HI. Our college worship service was at an…
Blog Bringing the Age Groups Together
- By Missy Buchanan
- Posted on February 3rd, 2013
Not long ago I stood with my feet in the clear water of the Caribbean. It was a quiet morning as I lingered and listened to the natural rhythm of the waves that was interrupted…
Articles Planting New Churches
- By Dave Barnhart
- Posted on January 25th, 2013
Our Church-Planting Heritage In the early days of American Methodism, most churches didn’t have full-time pastors; they had circuit riders, itinerant preachers who rode…
Articles Getting Counting Wrong - and Right
- By Jorge Acevedo
- Posted on January 24th, 2013
Many in my denomination are in uproar over the recommendations that every one of the more than 32,000 United Methodist churches in America measure vitality for at least the next…
Articles Measuring by Jesus
- By Christopher P. Momany
- Posted on January 7th, 2013
My great-grandfather used to repeat a rather irritating and somewhat tactless joke. You could depend on hearing it when out for a drive. If Gramps passed a cemetery, he would …