Resource Type:Online booklet describing six examples of large community service events organized by churches. The narrative about each example tells the type of events, the number of people involved, and the budget required.
Main Audience: Pastors and lay leaders looking for project-oriented (event-oriented) steps to take in moving their congregation to a greater external focus.
Download PDF Now(Click Resources, then the link for the full listing, then select this article. Downloading requires free registration.)
It describes the development of Tenth’s ACTS ministry and discusses lessons learned regarding lay/leadership collaboration, training, and keeping outreach-ministry “owned” by lay people (rather than being staff driven)
Audience:Leaders at “downtown” urban churches; leaders wanting to learn how other congregations have shifted from internal to external focus
This congregation’s story offers lessons for others about how a church can greatly expand and deepen its engagement in the city, especially through partnerships with other congregations.
Audience:This will be helpful for leaders at suburban and urban churches looking for models of multi-church collaboration for community transformation.
It tells how Second Baptist reached out to city leaders to learn more about the community and engaged a network of churches to serve public school children.
Audience:Urban, suburban, or rural churches looking to partner together; Churches seeking to do significant work with children and schools
It tells the story of this suburban church’s development of a deep and multi-faceted partnership with a nearby neighborhood, LincolnVillage, starting with creative engagement in the public elementary school there.
Audience:Suburban or rural churches desiring significant community impact; Churches wishing to engage in schools for significant transformation; Churches interested in partnering with others to have community impact.
This congregation’s story offers lessons for others about how even a relatively small church can have huge influence by following CCDA’s 3 Rs model and emphasizing indigenous leadership development, partnerships, and long-term incarnational ministry.
Audience:This will be helpful for church planters and church leaders ready to commit to a long-term focus on holistic community development in a particular neighborhood
This church’s story offers lessons for others about how to turn a church towards greater external focus, leading to broad community influence and impact.
Audience:Most appropriate for fairly large suburban churches
It describes how Harderwyk developed a greater focus on external community ministry following a shift in church leadership. It offers several lessons learned about how to establish an affiliated, but legally separate, nonprofit organization to conduct community ministry without the church losing its own commitment, focus, and involvement in such ministry.
Audience:Leaders of suburban churches desiring significant community impact among the poor; Leaders of multi-congregational churches; Church leaders wanting to learn from models of how other congregations moved from an internal to external focus; particularly, what changes had to occur within the church to make that shift possible
Resource Type:Online booklet describing six examples of large community service events organized by churches. The narrative about each example tells the type of events, the number of people involved, and the budget required.
Main Audience: Pastors and lay leaders looking for project-oriented (event-oriented) steps to take in moving their congregation to a greater external focus.
Download PDF Now(Click Resources, then the link for the full listing, then select this article. Downloading requires free registration.)
It tells how Second Baptist reached out to city leaders to learn more about the community and engaged a network of churches to serve public school children.
Audience:Urban, suburban, or rural churches looking to partner together; Churches seeking to do significant work with children and schools
It tells the story of this mega-church’s community outreach department, Lighthouse Ministries.
Audience:Leaders of mega-churches wanting ideas for how to structure themselves for effective community ministry; Suburban churches desiring significant community impact
and meaningful spiritual development in members through service
This tells of Hope’s journey in becoming an externally focused church and how it has dramatically increased the numbers of its members getting engaged in serving the city.
Audience:Suburban churches looking to partner with schools and other community agencies to be agents of grace to their community; church leaders wanting to learn from others’ stories of transitioning to more effective outreach
This congregation’s story offers lessons for others about how even a relatively small church can have huge influence by following CCDA’s 3 Rs model and emphasizing indigenous leadership development, partnerships, and long-term incarnational ministry.
Audience:This will be helpful for church planters and church leaders ready to commit to a long-term focus on holistic community development in a particular neighborhood
This church’s story offers lessons for others about how to turn a church towards greater external focus, leading to broad community influence and impact.
Audience:Most appropriate for fairly large suburban churches
This profile describes First Baptist’s decision to establish a community ministry focused on an obvious segment of its community: the 1200 correctional officers of the nearby prison and newly released inmates and their families.
Audience:Churches desiring to learn how to establish an outreach ministry focused on one key community issue or problem
This church’s story offers lessons learned regarding leadership development and training church members as winsome evangelists in the midst of their community service.
Audience:Suburban churches desiring significant community impact through all-church service events, on-going small group service participation, and individual mentoring.
RSS
