Track 1 Congregations
| This track is for congregations or judicatories looking for expert intervention to help revitalize, restart, turn around, reorganize, or generally nudge established churches from declining status quo to thriving Christian mission. These are often churches with little mission urgency, low adult spiritual growth, and overburdened core leaders, who need to develop an intentional discipling process. |
Common topics:
- Rejuvenating clergy, increasing volunteers, membership expectations;
- Discovering mission purpose, reducing structure, breaking intertia;
- Stewardship, generational ministries, relevant worship, property and program change.
Events and Workshops:
EBA customizes large group events for single and clustered congregations. Bring congregational teams for maximum impact. Leadership can be arranged with Tom Bandy, Bill Easum, or any one of our EBA Associates. Events can be designed for one day or multiple days.
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Common topics include:
- Growing Spiritual Redwoods: The marks of an effective 21st century church.
- Dancing with Dinosaurs: The "Crack in History" and its impact on ministry.
- Kicking Habits: Replacing self-defeating behavior with healthy church systems.
- Adult Faith Formation: Traditional and postmodern methodologies for adult spiritual growth.
- Worship for People of the Heart: The difference between Boomer and Gen X worship.
- Why Churches Thrive or Decline: The Systemic reasons churches grow.
- The Changing Spiritual Yearning of the Public: The questions and hopes of people today.
- Ministry in the Post-Modern World: What growing churches are doing about tomorrow.
- Vision Discernment: Building clarity and consensus around congregational identity.
- Leverage Points for Change: Where to start...and what to do next.
- Transforming Clergy: How traditional clergy become spiritual leaders.
- Leadership for the 21st Century: The marks of effective staff and volunteer leaders.
- The Small Congregation and Multi-Point Parish: How small churches grow.
- Demographic and Lifestyle Research: How to research and empower mission to the community.
- Cell Group Development: How to start, nurture, and multiply small groups.
Consultations:
Easum, Bandy & Associates has a variety of consultants, and offer three choices for consultation tools. These tools provide a complete analysis of the attitudes, systems, programs, and leadership of the church. These tools are most effective in combination with demographic research from Missioninsite or other census information.
- The "Ministry Audit" is a comprehensive, program development process built upon 20 "growth principles" modeled in more than 500 congregations throughout North America. Recommendations help congregations initiate faithful ministry changes in key areas of congregational life and mission.
- The "Congregational Mission Assessment" is a comprehensive, systems discernment process built upon 11 sub-systems of thriving congregational life. Recommendations help congregational leaders discern strengths, weaknesses, and hidden corporate addictions that hold back faithful change.
- The "Vision Discernment Process" is a comprehensive, consultative experience that builds clarity and consensus around the congregational identity of core values, bedrock beliefs, motivating vision, and key mission. The timeline for large and small group discernment may take 3 to 9 months, and builds a foundation of trust for future innovation and deployment of mission teams.
It is possible to customize consultation strategies for the context of the congregation or cluster of congregations.
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