Revitalization for Small Churches is a coaching and training opportunity that helps churches revitalize through small church gatherings, webinars and coaching. This journey is designed to allow your small church to navigate revitalization opportunities and challenges. You will be joined by other churches who will form with you a practical learning cohort. To complete this journey it will take commitment and faith, but along the way you will receive comprehensive assistance and encouragement.
Apply now for the next cohort that starts January 2025
Churches will:
• Relate with other churches and recognize that they are not alone on the revitalization journey
• Fully engage each year through study, discussions and workshops
• Take next steps in CBOQ’s “Eight Signs of a Thriving Church” indicators
• Demonstrate an ability to experiment and reflect upon their practice
• Express progress expectations with attainable and measurable timelines
• Imagine, formulate and construct ways they can connect with their communities in mission
• Allow support and strength to be given to pastors so that their own health and development takes place alongside that of the church
Once a church has viewed an annual introductory video, they will meet bi-monthly in cohorts (of a minimum of four churches) with a revitalization coach. There are different themes in each year – first year is church health, second year is a mission audit and the final year is designed to help churches formulate ongoing revitalization practices. Every church will need access to the Thrive resource produced by CBOQ.
Thank you CBOQ for offering this program! It was a factor in our church’s decision to continue to exist.
The encouragement and direct conversations with other churches has helped give me a sense that this is not just our church in this alone, but we are all in it together.
Our confidence to try things grew as the journey progressed. Cid’s affirmation (as well as that of others in the cohort) as we shared things we were trying or thinking through, helped us believe in ourselves and each other and in our clarity of the way forward.
Three years of deep, honest conversations about the church, faith, community, and ourselves resulted in a truly effective team that will continue to meet together and lead the church in its ongoing revitalization. The course gave the framework and tools required for these conversations.
Do it! Your team will grow in wisdom and understanding. They will be supported and gain new perspectives on church, leadership, mission and put them into action with the freedom to fail.
The 8 signs of a thriving church has become a template for understand the purposes of a church and keeping leadership focused on core values and tasks.
I very much so enjoyed the books shared, as they were theologically solid while provoking questions that can be quite difficult for some churches to ask themselves.
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