reFOCUS Community Needs Assessment Kit for Externally Focused Churches

Whether you have firmly established your church as externally focused, or you are on the way there, you need to complete the practical process of understanding community needs in order to find that sweet spot of focused ministry through service. The intersection of the needs of the [...]

Understanding Community Needs, Needs Assessment Kit for New Churches
If you are in the planning, planting or ministering in the first couple of years of new church life, and you want community service and a missional/ externally focused DNA to grow in the church, then completing a needs assessment is critical part of the process. 
Using a [...]

Status Quo wouldn’t be an accurate description of American culture today. In fact, “status quo” is short for “status quo ante bellum,” or “the state before the war.”  Status quo is not just how things are today, but a return to things as they once were– whether that is something we want for our culture [...]

Whether your effort is housed in a serving church or a non profit that is rooted in faith tradition, developing new resources is a primary step toward sustainability–and things are changing in our economy. Finding new resources that fit the mission is critical and requiring new creativity and skills in a new economy. [...]

David Mills is helping start healthier new churches that transform communities through service.
Across the nation, a movement of church planting is growing. These new churches are targeting communities and locations where new churches are needed and changing the way that church is perceived and lived through innovation and new cultural expressions. Many of these churches have one [...]

Rapid change in the opportunities and habits of technology users means that to connect with people for ministry, service and resource development we have no choice but to find the right technology fit. The emerging generation is digitally fluent at a level we have never seen before and we must communicate in that [...]

Culture and technology are providing opportunities to accelerate our mission and impact. By understanding and engaging effectively, we can speed the light and connect with hidden people groups.. By coming alongside to provide “accelerators” and support these organizations can move ahead across growth barriers to secure essential resources, build greater credibility and improve the [...]