Archive
Growth Points by Gary McIntosh
Parish Paper by Herb Miller
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2013 Mailings:
March
Parish Paper: "What Leadership Style Works in Our Church?"
Growth Points: "Isolation or Relationship?"
February
Parish Paper: Downsize Staff without Destroying Church
Growth Points: Small Group Life Cycle
2012 Mailings:
December:
Parish Paper: How to Use Our Five Senses During Advent
Growth Points: Healthy Churches Pray
November:
Parish Paper: How to Maintain Church Health in a Declining Population County
Growth Points: Revitalizing a Church Takes Time
October:
Parish Paper: Preventing Church Fraud
Growth Points: Don't Call Them Visitors
September:
Parish Paper: Where Are the Unchurched?
Growth Points: Add Side Doors to Your Church
August:
Parish Paper: Keys to Growing a Small Church
Growth Points: Commitments to Christ
July:
Parish Paper: "What Message Are We Sending about Giving?"
Growth Points: "Reaching Friends and Family"
May:
Parish Paper: "How to Turn Bystanders into Active Disciples"
Growth Points: "Worship Attendance Growth Rates"
April:
Parish Paper: "How Is Your Congregation's Health?"
Growth Points: "Target Groups"
March:
Parish Paper: "What Type of Future Are We Building?"
Growth Points: "Ministry Area"
January:
Parish Paper:"How to Perfect Your Leadership Triangle"
Growth Points: "Our Mobile World"
2011 Mailings:
November:
Parish Paper:"Should We Unleash the Power of Congregational Planning?"
Growth Points: "Developing Leaders"
October:
Parish Paper: "Why Do Smart Churches Make Dumb Decisions"
Growth Points: "Transitional Churches"
September:
Parish Paper: "Why Do People Connect with Christ and a Congregation?"
Growth Points: "Look Out! The Immigrants Are Here September 11"
August:
Parish Paper: "How to Prevent Bad Behavior During Times of Change"
Growth Points: "Identify Receptive People"
July:
Parish Paper: "How to Select Quality Staff"
Growth Points: "Converts Who Stay"
June:
Parish Paper: "What is the Pastor's Role in Church Finance?"
Growth Points: "Closing Our Doors, Part II"
May:
Parish Paper: "When Does Success Lead to Failure?"
Growth Points: "Closing Our Doors - Part 1"
April:
Growth Points: "Improving Morale, Part 2"
Parish Paper: "Incoming Pastor, Building Smoother Transition Bridges"
March 2011:
Growth Points:"Improving Morale, Part 1"
Parish Paper: "Does a Congregation's Location Influence Its Effectiveness?"
February 2011:
Growth Points: "Proponents & Opponents"
Parish Paper: "Accomplishing Worthy Goals - Being Smart Is Not Enough"
January 2011
Growth Points: Turnaround Leaders
Parish Paper: What Is Your Unconscious Intent
2010 Mailings:
December 2010
Growth Points:"There's Hope for Your Church"
Parish Paper: "Fifty Years Later"
November
Growth Points: "Handling Criticism Wisely"
Parish Paper: "Big-Picture Trends in Congregattions"
October
Growth Points: "The Net Generation"
Parish Paper: "Why Are Worship Visitors Important?"
September
Growth Points: Generational Update 2010
Parish Paper: Planning for the Unexpected Financial Crisis
August
Growth Points: Nine Hats of Pastor
Parish Paper: How Much Should We Pay our Pastor
July
Growth Points: Junk in the Mail
Parrish Paper: Should Our Congregation Use Internet Social Media?
June
Growth Points: Slow People Down
Parrish Paper: Why Does Mentoring Succeed and Fail
May
Growth Points: Eleven Keys for Sustained Growth
Parrish Paper: Generous Givers: A Product of Motivations & Methods
April
Growth Points: Restoring Hope
Parish Paper: What We Can Learn from the Emerging Church Movement
March
Growth Points: Breaking Through - Where Do You Start?
Parish Paper: New Trends in Belonging
February
Growth Points: Moving Off A Plateau Part Two
Parish Paper: Should We Fine-Tune Our Churches Internal Culture?
January
Growth Points: Moving Off the Plateau, Part I
Parish Paper: Becoming Comfortable with Conflict
2009
December
Growth Points: "Manage Your Church's Brand"
Parish Paper: "Are We a Leader-Sending Congregation?"
November
Growth Points: "The Planning Gap"
Parish Paper: "Seven Roads to a Multicultural Congregation"
October
Growth Points: "God the Planner"
Parish Paper: "Women Pastors: Are Our Assumptions Accurate?"
September
Growth Points: "Biblical Planning"
Parish Paper: "Do We Sing All 5 Worship-Hymn Preferences?"
August
Growth Points:"Breaking the 800 Barrier"
Parish Paper:"Shepherding Churches Through Grief Storms"
July
Growth Points: "Breaking the 400 Worship Barrier"
Parish Paper: "Lay Testimonials Strengthen Financial Giving!"
June
Growth Points: "Breaking the 85 Worship Barrier"
Parish Paper: "One Congregation, Many Locations"
May
Growth Points"Growing Smaller Churches"
Parish Paper"Permanent Endowment Fund: Blessing & Temptation"
April
Growth Points"The Planning Cycle"
Parish Paper "What Do People Want in Their Pastors?"
March
Growth Points"Church Board Affairs"
Parish Paper"Going into All the World: Church Web Site Basics"
February
Growth Points
Parish Paper"Should our Congregation Offer More Choices?"
January
Growth Points"Stage 5: The Dying Church"
Parish Paper"How to Identify our Church's Unstated Assumptions"
Mailings: 2008