Complete Video Preparation for Leaders Planning a Needs Assessment
Compassion by Design has offered training helping church planters, pastors and outreach leaders to understand their community and its needs all around the nation, and the big challenge about making it available has been the problem of “time and space”—that is, only having one trainer available to [...]

The real secret of church growth revolves around one question: Does your body exist to serve itself, or is it called to something higher? This is one of the questions I ask in Missional versus Maintenance church. 
What does “church growth” mean to you? The truth is, many church planters and exponentially focused ministries get turned [...]

Does the church exist to serve itself, or is it called to something higher? Do we serve the mission or are we primarily engaged in our own maintenance?

7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. ) 9The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]