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The Healthy Small Church Workshop is based on Dennis Bickers book by the same title. In this workshop, pastors and congregational leaders are challenged to explore the issues that lead to a healthy “self-esteem” for small churches.
If a church is afflicted with unhealthy issues, such as feelings of unimportance, a lack of vision, exclusivity, limited resources, or unbalanced leadership, then its health is threatened and it way eventually die. An unhealthy church, however, can get well and experience vital spiritual growth.
This workshop will give church leaders the tools to diagnose the issues that can threaten the life of a church and prescribes practical remedies for treatment.
The goal of this workshop is to help pastors and lay leaders develop the ability to recognize the symptoms that lead to disease in the local church. By acting accordingly, churches can regain their health.
To get a copy of The Healthy Small Church, scroll down and click on the link at the bottom of this page.
- Pastors, Moderators, Deacons, Trustees, Elders
- Members of the Church Council, Vestry or Session
- Lay leaders who serve in any capacity
- Judicatory and Denominational Leaders
Signs
that a church is healthy:
• Has a positive self-image
• Shares a common vision that creates a sense of purpose and unity
• Maintains community while still warmly welcoming new visitors
• Practices the importance of faithful stewardship and financial
support
• Understands ministry to be the responsibility of all the members
of the church
• Encourages everyone to serve according to his or her spiritual
gifts–not by seniority or guilt
Go to the Registration Form
Dennis
Bickers:
Rev. Dennis Bickers currently serves as an Area Minister with the American
Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky. For 20 years, he was a bivocational
pastor in a small, rural church in Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana
University Southeast and serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for
Bivocational Ministries at Campbellsville University.