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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
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"
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Current Thoughts
Dwight Stinnett, Author
Mainstream
Linda Ricks, Editor
Dwight Stinnett, Ex. Editor
GRR Website
Richard Ricks, Web Ministries Team Leader
Dwight Stinnett
Current Thoughts
dwight@abcgrr.org
(217) 726-7366
Linda Ricks
Mainstream
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Richard Ricks
Web Team Leader
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Directory: Candy Stivers
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Church Leader Helps:
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Area I - Cheryl Henson
Area II - John Grisham
Area III - Richard Ricks
Area IV - Randy McNeely
Area V - Muriel Johnson