Transformation – How do you know if it's for you?

1. You pray for more focus on ministry and mission
2. You pray for growth in spiritual formation
3. You pray for more worship attendance
4. You pray for unity (between members and other churches)
5. You pray for inspired and biblically literate members
6. You pray to find help in:

• Growing an outreach program
• Recruiting new members
• Assimilating new folk
• Recruiting new leaders

Transformation comes in different levels – here are three:

Level One – Making an existing program better
Level Two – Creating new programs / leaving old ones behind
Level Three – Creating a new congregation (same people, new outlooks)

Contact Committee members to help!

Download our brochure

The following links have been found by committee members to be helpful in studying church renewal:

• Resource Center has ordered the following for you to borrow CHURCH GROWTH a video kit, ASSIMILATING NEW MEMBERS  a video kit and the ENGAGING CHURCH a DVD kit.,
• www.transformationscenter.org, Transformations Center on the Nazareth Campus of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Kalamazoo
• "5 Kinds of Christians lists.christianitytoday.com/t/9075713/4567565/139932/0 
  (from Christianity Today - an interesting study on how our congregations need to think of those participating in or considering the faith)
• The Church Wellness Project  www.churchwellness.com
• Presbymergent (The Emergent Presbyterian Church) www.presbymergent.org
• Go to http://pgf.typepad.com/outbox/2007/06/the-missional-m.html, "The Outbox," a missional resource blog from the Presbyterian Global Fellowship.
• Visit www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week845/interview1.html for information about renewal in mainline churches.
• To learn about Natural Church Development, go to www.ncd-international.org/public/index.html
• Learn why and how to do exit studies and exit interviews

Please contact John Sterner if you have other websites you'd like to recommend