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Blessed: Ninety Days to Change Your World

This book offers a 90-day devotional that can help congregations commit to daily prayer. Author Ken Gurly, senior pastor of First Church in Pearland, Texas, and host of the Daily Devotion podcast, believes the 90-day commitment can help readers develop a life-changing prayer habit. To make this Christian devotional easy to use, the book offers a short prayer focus for each day and organizes the daily prayers into themes, such as pursuing relationship with God, biblical models for effective prayer, giving thanks, and more.

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Church Assessment Tool (CAT)

This congregational assessment from provides benchmark data to inform decisions about identity, clergy...

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"Is the Black Church Dead?" A Roundtable on the Future of Black Churches

This 2-hour panelist discussion examines the evolution of the Black Church, its positive and negative...

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Conflict in Congregations Special Report

This report by the Center for Congregations provides an overview of inevitable congregational...

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Racial Diversity in a Changing Harlem Congregation

This video by PBS details the changes and growth of First Corinthian Church in Harlem, New...

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The Order of Service for the Closing of a Church

This download contains a Roman Catholic liturgy template for the closing of a church.

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We Look for the Resurrection of the Dead

This article looks at the story of one church's closure and describes how signs of death and...

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Liturgy for the Closing of a Church

This downloadable liturgy from the United Church of Canada is designed to be the final...

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A Liturgy for the Closing of a Church

This resource contains a church closing liturgy that fits around the structure of a Sunday...

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Church Merger Outline

This web resource, by Pastoral Care, Inc., an ecumenical organization dedicated to providing...

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Replant: How a Dying Church Can Grow Again

This book tells the story of how a church was able to merge with a thriving congregation to...

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On Living in a Dying Church

This article draws from the author's own experience, finding parallels between hospice...

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