Revitalizing Your Church Resources
September 3rd, 2006
Finding New Life for Struggling Churches by Ed Stetzer.
Church Revitalization in the North American District of the Assemblies of God: A Training Seminar for Pastors by Rev. Gary A Denbow (an abstract) (pdf)
A new page of resources for churches in decline.
Donate a Church Building
September 1st, 2006
Are you a church looking to donate a church building? Donate Church Group will work with local Church Planting Networks to assess and assist your local church to determine if it can be replanted. If all partners determine it is best to shut the church doors, your team will work with the Church Planting Network to allocate resources and fund new churches. Contact Donate Church Group to learn more.
Church Planting Networks Wanted
September 1st, 2006
Donate Church seeks active church planting networks to partner with. Our goal is to help connect dying churches with church planters to (1) assist in replanting the church or (2) to allow the church to close and use the resources for the Kingdom and fund new church plants.
Donate Church Group
September 1st, 2006
DonateChurch.com is a project to take dying churches who see the vision of re-planting their dying church to help start a new church plant. These churches believe the gospel needs continue to the generations to come. Like the parable of the mustard seed, they willingly die in order that new life may come.
Recent American church statistics show:
· In America, 3500 – 4000 churches close their doors each year
· Half of all churches last year did not add one new member through conversion growth
· Churches lose an estimated 2,765,000 people each year to nominalism and secularism
· Approximately 98 million people are under the age of 25 in the United States, and those between the ages of 18 and 25 are the least likely to attend a church
(George Barna, Twentysomethings Struggle to Find Their Place in Christian Churches, http://www.barna.org/)