Outreach North America - Church Renewal

Church Renewal

Outreach North America continually researches renewal resources and our churches' needs so we may offer more effective training, and so we may provide a variety of tools to our congregations. Tools which will help our churches to:

Renew the spiritual lives of members and their families;

Regain their commitment to evangelism and outreach work in their communities;

Strengthen the vision and ministry of the congregation.

The Following are tools we recommend.

From Embers to a Flame
www.emberstoaflame.org

A revitalization program developed by Dr. Harry Reeder, Senior Pastor at Briarwood Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Birmingham, AL. This four-day conference is designed to establish and implement a biblical paradigm for church revitalization by focusing on the three "R's" of revitalization...remember, repent and recover. This conference stems from Dr. Reeder's own need to discover God's heart for the church. His first pastorate was at a church that had shrunk dramatically from 900 members to 65. This is not a "how-to" conference on church growth, but the strategic application of a ministry philosophy rooted in a biblical theology of church revitalization.

There is also a book From Embers to a Flame: How God Can Revitalize Your Church by Harry L. Reeder III, with David Swavely (Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing, 2004).

Twin Lakes Fellowship

What is Twin Lakes Fellowship ?

• Devoted to:

• The encouragement of Gospel ministry and ministers

• The promotion of healthy biblical church planting

• A ministry of the Session of the historic First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS

• Twofold purpose of encouraging ministers and churches:

• To promote the work of church planting through local congregations

• To encourage personal growth in grace, so as to maximize effectiveness in promoting the work of the Gospel

What does the Twin Lakes Fellowship do?

• Hosts an annual 2 day conference at Twin Lakes Conference Center in Florence, MS

• Provides the actual conference at no cost to the participants except for their travel expenses.

• For more information contact Rev. Bill Marsh at Oconee ARP Church:

(864) 882-8444 or bmarsh@oconeearp.org

United Front Ministries

www.unitedfrontministries.com

United Front Ministries is a training, coaching and assessing ministry organization that is committed to church multiplication. United Front's vision is of a restored and healthy American church with dynamic leadership. Their ministry is to keep healthy churches healthy, empowering them for multiplication, and to get churches in plateau and decline into health and multiplication.

Philosophy centered on two initiatives:

• Spiritual renewal – biblical & theological

• Strategic development – ministry design, ministry activity & resource allocation.

Training formats:

• Project 6:15 (based on Nehemiah 6:15) – A sixteen month project to help churches in long-term plateau or decline

• Project 2:47 (based on Acts 2:47) – A project to help churches that have many elements of health to help prevent plateau & decline

• Seminars - half-day & full-day

• Workshops – snapshots of larger training events

Natural Church Development

The Board of ONA has approved the Natural Church Development (NCD) survey as a tool for diagnosing church health. The Board has not endorsed the overall Natural Church Development program.

For more information on any of these programs contact the ONA office at: