Church Renewal

In our quest to serve churches as they seek God’s guidance for Renewing, Repurposing or Replanting, the Heritage21 team will be on the campus of Pepperdine University for their 81st annual Bible Lectures, Running with perseverance, on April 30-May 3, 2024.  H21 will host a Dinner Fellowship on Wednesday, May 1 from 5:00-6:30 pm in…

Recently a church called me asking about how they could get more people attending their church. That is quite a loaded question. Most church leaders I know would love to have that answer. I would too! But we still need to look for an answer. The most common difficulty I encounter in these conversations is…

What do you think and how do you feel about this question: should your church plan to grow? I don’t remember any group of church leaders every telling me they did not want to grow. I think most leaders know that growth in their church is good. Where I sense the pause is about planning….

In my previous article I shared about the transition I anticipate will happen in the next year and the blessings I have witnessed by investing in others. Another important aspect of my transition involves the church reimagining her mission in light of new leadership and community change. In 2000, when the church began our two-year…

Church leader, we are all still coming to grips with our new Covid induced reality. There are so many questions we need to ask so we can begin to investigate new answers. One of those questions is about growing again. Asking how a church can grow seems almost seems premature. In many locales the question…