Size transitions in congregations / Beth Ann Gaede, editor ; introduction by Arlin J. Rothauge.
Contributor(s): Gaede, Beth Ann
Material type: 
TextSeries: Harvesting the learnings seriesPublisher: [Bethesda, Md.] : The Alban Institute, 2001Description: viii, 172 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 156699246X (pbk.)Subject(s): Church growth | Church attendance | Church management | Big churches | Small churches| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book
|
@LancSemLibrary Stacks | BV 652.25 .S59 2000 (Browse shelf) | Available | 30092100743930 |
Browsing @LancSemLibrary shelves, Shelving location: Stacks Close shelf browser
|
|
No cover image available |
|
|
|
|
||
| BV 652.25 .S375 2017 Stride : | BV 652.25 .S39 2005 Color your world with Natural church development : experiencing all that God has designed you to be / | BV 652.25 .S52 Church growth through the Sunday school / | BV 652.25 .S59 2000 Size transitions in congregations / | BV 652.25 .S65 2010 Making friends, making disciples : growing your church through authentic relationships / | BV 652.25 .S84 1990 Welcome! : | BV 652.25 .T46 1999 One church, many congregations : |
Includes bibliographical references.
Part one: How big are we? -- 1. Current thinking on size transitions / Theodore W. Johnson -- 2. How to minister effectively in family, pastoral, program and corporate size churches / Roy M. Oswald -- 3. What happens between sizes? Why congregations get stuck / Alice Mann -- 4. Sizing up a congregation: how size affects function / Douglas Alan Walrath -- 5. Leader relationships: a key to congregational size / Edward H. Koster -- 6. Beginnings of a theory of synagogue size: changing patterns and behaviors / Alice Mann, David Trietsch, and Dan Hotchkiss -- Part two: The ups and downs of congegational size -- 7. Growing pains: are they worth it? / Bill Joiner -- 8. Raising the roof: foundations for the breakthrough to program size / Alice Mann -- 9. One size doesn't fit all: reflections on becoming a corporate-size church / Joel S. McCoy -- 10. Marks of growing churches: the confederate approach to church growth / G.W. Garvin -- 11. Dreaming of cathedrals, building skyscrapers: discovering what it means to be church / Elizabeth I. Steele -- 12. Finding our mission: stages in the life of an urban congregation / Ronald T. Roberts -- 13. Congregations in decline: how context affects size / Alice Mann -- 14. When membership declines: letting go and moving forward / Roy M. Oswald -- 15. The death and dying of a congregation: an experience of God's grace / Daphne Burt.
12/2001 15.95
There are no comments on this title.