• Igniting Congregation Events - Special events for congregations actively engaging their communities through outreach evangelism. They are brought together to help them take the next step in becoming more effective in their own ministry and to design ways to help other congregations learn from the blessings God has given them.

• Developing a Positive Community Image - Why does your congregation exist? What is the image people in your community have of your church? This seminar will help you look outward to those who are not churched. You will study your community, look at your strengths, and develop means to provide a positive image that reflects the Body of Christ at work in this place. You will design a plan for letting your community know that you are there to serve them in the name of Jesus Christ.

• Intentional Follow-Up - This seminar helps ministries understand that an event is only one part in the process of moving seekers and unconvinced people from one time or infrequent guests to regular participants in our ministry. Your ministry will learn and develop a process for following up with guests that is relational in its approach and will move the ministry beyond hoping guests will come back to a strategy that intentionally teaches them that you want them back because they are people who matter.

• Welcoming Guests Well - Most congregations have guests on a regular basis. This seminar helps congregations distinguish between visitors and guests, view the church from the guest's perspective, evaluate current ministry design as it relates to guests and develop a comprehensive strategy to help the congregation welcome guests well.

This 3-day seminar is led by instructors trained by Dr. Charles Ridley of Indiana University, the father of the behavioral interview process for church workers. It trains you to select the right person for the job by asking the right questions.

The seminar teaches principles and techniques that can be used by District Presidents selecting staff or interviewing pastors, by principals interviewing teachers for the classroom, by mission executives interviewing mission planters, and by pastors selecting staff for a ministry team.

Dr. Ridley, with Bob Logan of CoachNet, developed a training kit for using behavioral interview techniques to select church planters. His behavioral interview process has become widely accepted across denominations as an excellent tool for selecting those who have the gifts for planting new churches.

This 2-day seminar, designed by Dynamic Church Planting International of Oceanside, California, leads a congregation through the steps of planting a daughter church. It identifies the pitfalls and lays out the strategies for effectively giving birth to a new church plant.

Planting churches is a key to reaching the unchurched or dechurched in a community. Church consultants Lyle Schaller, George Bullard, Bill Easum and Peter Wagner all agree that the new church is the most effective means of reaching those who have become detached from the church or have never been attached to a church.

While this seminar can be effective for any congregation at any life stage, it might be most effective for an "adult stage" congregation in which the congregation is enjoying the results of past labors. They are experiencing growth in worship, good vision, and good relationships. Their programs and church management are going well. It is a good time to have a child.

This 2-day seminar guides a team in developing a mission plan for the ministry of their congregation or organization.

Every congregation and "mission outreach" needs a plan that guides and directs their ministry. The seminar leader will guide the participants in the development of a plan for their ministry. A strategic planning team (3-5 people), selected by the congregation or organization, will work through the seminar materials (Advanced Strategic Planning by Aubrey Malphurs and an ccompanying workbook prepared Ken Behnken).

The presenter will guide the team through a process that analyzes your present situation; studies the demographics of your community; guides in the writing of a mission statement, vision, and goals; provides strategies for implementation and sets up a process for evaluation.

Training for those who wish to be Missional Church Consultants. (The Center also provides consultants to congregations.)

Is your congregation experiencing slow growth, plateaued ministry, loss of membership, inability to reach their community, or loss of leadership? Are you experiencing signs of weakening ministry and failure to excite and motivate people for service? 

A Missional Church Consultation could help you evaluate your ministry, providing tools to assess your needs and helping your leaders move your ministry forward. The consultant will work with the congregation, pastor, and leaders to assist them in discovery and change. 

Moving from simply recruiting volunteers to intentionally equipping members to serve.
Why do 20% of the people do 80% of the work in the church?
Why is recruitment often so difficult?
How can we help our members be more effective in ministry and receive more enjoyment from it?

These questions are answered, and the church thrives, when the focus changes from recruitment, which often involves pressure or guilt, to intentionally assisting people to discover their giftedness and to respond to God's call to ministry, and then deliberately equipping them for ministry.

This 1-day seminar gives you the tools needed for these church-wide changes. Additional seminars are available for focusing on the specific steps in the process.

Topics in this one day seminar:

• scriptural basis for equipping for ministry
• recruitment vs. equipping
• building an equipping team
• the pastor's role
• building an equipping culture and an equipping system

Presenter: Karen Kogler, the former Coordinator of the Center for U.S. Missions, has nine years congregational experience mobilizing members. Her training includes completion of Marlene Wilson's Volunteer Management Institute.

This 1-day seminar teaches churches how to share their vision and purpose with their community. Whether a church is brand new or established, small or large, it needs to let the people in their area know they are nearby and anxious to meet their needs and provide a living relationship with Jesus Christ and with other Christians.

The business world has extensively studied the process of sharing a product or service with people that might be interested in what they have to provide. The tools they use can also be effective in helping ministries share their vision, purpose, and mission with the people in their community.

This seminar helps congregations develop an Outreach Plan for their congregation, using many strategies used by entrepreneurs in what is called "guerrilla marketing."

Training for congregations who want to reach nearby people of another language/culture group.

The changing demographics of the United States show that the Lord has brought a foreign mission field to our front doorstep. The church has never before in its history had the opportunity to reach the foreign mission field with such ease.

This 1-1/2 day seminar trains congregations who want to reach people of another language/culture group in their ministry area. The seminar covers:

1. Scriptural foundation
2. Principles of personal and organizational change  
3. Study of culture, values, and barriers  
4. Steps toward bridging barriers  
5. Initiating a new culture-specific ministry

This training provides materials for taking a congregation through a 5 week (or weekend) process to prepare them for doing ministry, in their church facility, with another culture group. The text is the manual Planting Missions Across Cultures by Ken Behnken, published by Concordia Publishing House.

Designed to help healthy congregations revisit their values, mission, vision and strategic plan in order to advance the mission and ministry of the congregation. This is a weekend seminar with directed pre-work, follow-up visits as requested, and a year of executive coaching for the senior pastor.

Team ministry was initiated in the early church. Paul and Barnabas, Barnabas and Timothy, Aquila and Priscilla, and other missionary teams moved from place to place, gathered a worshiping community, and left the church under the leadership of a selected team of leaders.

In many cases the church today has lost its ability to provide ministry through the gifts and talents of a team. Much of our ministry focuses on one person, the pastor.

This 1-day seminar focuses on gathering a ministry team and leading the team in a way that uses the gifts and talents of each team member. The seminar gives a new and exciting look at how to develop and work with a ministry team to more effectively reach the unchurched in your community and provide a ministry which meets the needs of your people.

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