1. NW District Clergy Meeting
Office of Congregational Vitality
Janet Earls and Dan Jackson

2. The Mission Field Creative Outreach

3. First, Let’s Define Vitality

4. Five Streams of Faith Communities
Church Planting
Multi-Site Campus
Fresh Expressions
Focused Worship
Intentional Communities

5. Current STATS for the Florida Conference
About 25 Churches projected to close this year
About 25 Loans to churches from the Foundation for new growth
Over 60 Fresh Expressions

6. Stats for NW District for 2016
0-50 Worshipers
Worshipers
Worshipers
Worshipers
Worshipers
Worshipers
Over 1000 Worshipers 46 26 8 1 2

7. How do we change projections?
First, ask some tough questions:
What is the church willing to do differently?
What is the church willing to stop doing?
What breaks your heart?
Children?
Elderly?
The Poor?
Who or what else?

8. Complete this sentence:
This church is known as the church.

9. Ideas worth sharing
Teach the church how to comfortably share their faith story

10. Ideas worth sharing
Speak to community leaders and find out the most pressing needs of the community.
Pick ONE that the church could do well.

11. Ideas worth sharing Partner with the neighborhood schools
Provide mid-year supply drive
Mentors for children (not just math)
End of year breakfast to thank the teachers

12. Ideas worth sharing Supply shoes for kids in need
If you have a thrift store, give the school counselor five $25.00 gift certificates for clothing or shoes
Offer 5 or 10 meals at Thanksgiving for the working poor who do not qualify for free programs

13. Ideas worth sharing Don’t do something already being done well.
Don’t do something you cannot keep up.
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