Revitalization Organizations
There are several organizations dedicated to church revitalization.
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The Lawless Group reaches across organizational and denominational lines to advance the Kingdom of God. We are committed to fulfill the Great Commission and to strengthen the local church by providing relevant advice and concrete action plans to the congregations. We not only analyze current conditions of the church, but we also offer relevant and specific proposals for future improvements.
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The core mission of the Malphurs Group is to train leaders to strategically envision tomorrow today through writing, consulting, training, and teaching. The primary focus of the group is consulting with churches that are facing growth challenges.
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Auxano is a church consulting group that takes a unique approach of developing a church’s vision path before providing typical consulting services. This group helps guide growth, focus ministry, inspire involvement, navigate change, transform pastors into visionary leaders, and local churches become local movements.
Church Resource Ministries One of the most effective is Church Resource Ministries, (www.refocusing.org). Their two year process takes the leader through personal development (year 1) and then through the church leadership process (year 2).
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ReFocusing is a two-year transformation process for a local church which links personal renewal of the leaders and congregation to the revitalization of a church and its structures. The end result is a harvest-focused church with an intentional plan of raising up more and better disciples and churches.
- The Refocusing process begins with personal renewal, then moves to the corporate revitalization of the church structures.
- Focused Living is the personal development resource from CRM that empowers leaders in personal renewal.
- Focused Ministry is the corporate revitalization resource from CRM that empowers church leaders to develop an intentional plan for ministry and mission.
- ReFocusing Networks group six to ten pastors and churches together to work through the ReFocusing process.
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Gene Wood’s book, Leading Turnaround Churches speaks to church pastors and leaders to help strengthen and mobilize churches throughout our nation and abroad. Leading Turnaround Churches seminars are scheduled throughout the world to help leaders turn around a plateaued or declining church to growth and vitality.