In this recording at the Incarnate Church Planting Gathering, listen to Stuart Murray Williams exploring questions used to measure the success of church planters.
How many people do you get on Sunday?
How many conversions have you seen?
How big is your church?
Stuart unpacks why pioneers find these questions frustrating, if they are trying to avoid accountability and how numerical measures can be appropriately used. Stuart then suggests some new questions that pioneers might be happier in answering along with the appropriate use of numerical questions:
In this recording of a second talk by Stuart Murray Williams at the Incarnate Church Planting Gathering, he offers ways to explore if a new church plant is healthy through the use of health indicators. A growing church is not necessrily a healthy church.
Stuart suggests eight health indicators for a newly planted church and in the talk he explains what he means by each one. It's interesting to ask how much applcable these indicators are to lder churches as well?
For the past 15 months Stuart Murray Williams has been providing consultancy in the area of church planting to the regional ministers in both the West of England and South Wales Baptist Associations. One of the tasks he was asked to take on was to put together a document setting out a framework for how an Association might be involved in a church planting initiative or, indeed, to galvanise such activity.
This document (or actually four slightly different versions of it) has been reviewed and revised and the current draft is now a working document within these Associations.
Endorsed by the Incarnate Network, we welcome any opportunity to work with Associations to develop and implement a church planting strategy.
Our friends at Eurochurch.net are happy to announce the culmination of a year’s research with the release of their report on missions and church planting in Europe.
Over 600 people in 35 countries responded to their questionnaire, making this the largest project of its type ever carried out in Europe. The report contains a country by country directory of people involved in church planting, together with an overview of church planting activity in that country and some useful reports and analysis. The aim of the database is that it will help people network, collaborate, and avoid duplication of effort.
In this recording at the Incarnate Church Planting Gathering, listen to Stuart Murray Williams exploring questions used to measure the success of church planters.
In this recording of a second talk by Stuart Murray Williams at the Incarnate Church Planting Gathering, he offers ways to explore if a new church plant is healthy through the use of health indicators. A growing church is not necessrily a healthy church.
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