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11 High-Impact Planning Ideas for Senior Pastors

This blog provides innovative activities to clarify your congregation's strategy and vision.

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101 Ways to Reach Your Community

This easy-to-read book helps congregations focus outward through service.

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Church in these VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) Times

This simple video orients leaders to the evolving impact of COVID-19. Then it explains how to...

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Holy Conversations: Strategic Planning as a Spiritual Practice for Congregations

This book of practical tools turns strategic planning into "holy conversations" guided by...

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Beyond the Ordinary: Ten Strengths of U.S. Congregations

Based on research from the U.S. Congregational Life Survey, the authors identify ten strengths...

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Leading Missional Change: Move Your Congregation from Resistant to Re-Energized

This book provides insight on why congregations don't want to change, how to utilize trust to...

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Simon Sinek - The Golden Circle - Ted Talk

Ted Talk from Sinek's book "Start with Why" articulates the difference between value-based...

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Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches

This book looks at the structural causes of homelessness, examining the two common Christian...

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Uproar: Calm Leadership in Anxious Times

Through the lens of Murray Bowen's Family Systems theory, this book provides specific ways...

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The Center for Parish Development

This organization provides resources and consulting to help congregations expand their...

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