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Examples of Ministries
Below are links to various conferences,
churches, and ministries that may give you inspiration to start
your own ministry.
www.nicumc.org/mi/2010 North Indiana Conference’s plan
for growth. Informative site. Look at the “2010 Plan Updates”
for dozens of examples of new church starts/revitalizations.
Look further at their site by visiting
nicumc.spinweb.net/cd/.
Check out their "Church Development" home page with links to all
sorts of material on ethnic ministries, interesting articles,
and additional resources.
www.flumc.org
Florida Conference’s site. Click on “Congregational
Transformation” on the right side of the home page
(“Congregational Transformation” here refers to church
starts/revitalization). This site continues to be in
development, and offers articles on leading change,
characteristics of a healthy church, and a Power-Point
presentation.
www.theharbourumc.com
The Harbour. A United Methodist Church in Huntsville
Alabama. A themed church in a storefront. Offering a breakfast
before service, contemporary music, round tables, and a short
sermon by Pastor Tony Johnson.
www.catumc.org
Catalina United Methodist Church in Tucson, Arizona. An example
of a church that has a traditional and contemporary worship
service running concurrently on Sunday mornings. Using the
“shared facilities” model for expanding new ministries.
www.crossingonline.com
A true Gen-X church in Costa Mesa, California (but attracts
people of all ages). Worship using multimedia, drama,
contemporary music. Well worth a visit on Saturday evening at
5:30 for one of the 4 weekend services. Founded in 1988, this
church has grown into a new location with a parking structure,
education facility, and huge temporary worship center. Not UMC
but featured by the UMC Academy for Congregational Growth.
Resources
Below are links to various boards, agencies,
groups, or companies that provide resources to help guide you in
creating and maintaining your new ministry.
www.path1.org
Path 1 is a team of leaders drawn from national, regional and
local levels of The United Methodist Church, whose mission is to
provide collaborative leadership to evangelize the NEW USA so that
we might reach more people, more young people, more diverse people
for Christ by creating new places for new people. In response to
vision pathway #1 set by the Council of Bishops, the national
strategy created by the congregational developers, and the desire
of may of our agencies and Radical Ethnic National Plans, Path 1
seeks to create the leaders and processes to regain our healthy
denominational habit of starting a church a day. This site
provides a wealth of resources for new starts and revitalization
of ministries.
The United Methodist Joint
Committee for Congregational Development works with
annual conferences and congregations to form new faith
communities and revitalize existing churches. It is made up of
staff from the General Board of Discipleship and the General
Board of Global Ministries. Great resources and training
opportunities.
www.Alban Institute An
ecumenical, interfaith organization founded in 1974, which
supports congregations through consulting services, research,
book publishing, and educational seminars.
www.barna.org
Barna Research Group provides information and analysis
regarding cultural trends and the Christian Church. This is a
fee for service company but the web site has large amounts of
free research material that is very helpful in gaining insights
and trends about our culture. Check both the “Barna Updates” and
“Research Archives” for informative articles.
www.teamresources.com/PDI_Broch.pdf. The "DISC
Profile System" is a leadership profile system highly
recommended by
Dr. Ed DeLong,
Director of Congregational Life for the Baltimore-Washington
Annual Conference. As a matter of fact, all the
participants at Cal-Pac's 1st Leadership
Academy took the profile and found it very helpful. It is a
simple yet very useful tool for identifying leadership styles.
Having a leadership team that complements one another rather
than being in conflict, goes along way in helping to achieve
your ministry goals. An online version is available for
about $18 per person at
www.pdiprofile.com
Click one of the "Learn More" links near the bottom of their
home page for more information. |
