Archive for March, 2009

Growth By Accident – Death By Planning: How Not to Kill A Growing Congregation

Posted in Book Reviews on March 26th, 2009 by Dr. Gayle Woods – Be the first to comment

A Book Review

 

by Dr. Gayle Woods

 

It was the title of the book that first grabbed my attention.  Don’t we normally think in terms of church growth by planning?  As I stood at his book table, I knew that Dr. Whitesel, Vice-President of the American Society for Church Growth, had something on his mind that many had probably overlooked.  

 

Dr. Whitesel, the founder and Senior Editor of Strategies for Today’s Leader magazine, and associate professor in the College of Graduate Studies at Indiana Wesleyan University is well equipped to write on the subject of church growth. Having studied under church growth guru’s such as Peter Wagner and Charles Arn at Fuller Theological Seminary, he is well versed in this subject. Knowing Dr. Whitesel’s excitement to see God’s kingdom increase through the auspices of the local church, I could not wait to study this volume.

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Increasing Visitor Retention

Posted in Follow-Up on March 3rd, 2009 by David Woods – Be the first to comment

Would you like to know one simple trick that could dramatically increase your church’s rate of visitor retention? No, this is not one of those commercials! Rather, I would just like to share with you the startling results of some research done on visitor retention.

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