• Rediscover your church's strengths, some "overdone" strengths and areas that need to grow.

• Articulate your non negotiable core values.

• Recognize your church's spiritual heritage.

• Affirm your pastor's styles of leadership.

• Strengthen your communication skills.

• Understand how to conflict well. Disagreement doesn't have to lead to discord.

• Confirm your churchís unique personality and distinctive calling in your community and culture as part of God's grand design for His church.

PRESERVE what your church needs in order to maintain its spiritual legacy.

AVOID the ideas and behavior that have held your church back.

ACHIEVE what your church must be and do to fulfill its unique mission as light of Christ.

Every church at some time needs to reestablish its roots and rediscover its purpose.

• When is the best time?
• Do you notice indications that the church is in one of these stages:

* Past Prime
* Retirement
* Nostalgia
* Old Age

• How will you know which stage your church is in?
• What can you do to help restore it to vitality?

Why change is difficult

• Change requires effort and risk.
• Status quo is easier and feels safer.
• Communication has not been clear.
• Unresolved conflict prevents consideration of the future.
• Trust needs to be regained.
• Change may be interpreted as criticism of the church’s failure.

{Interactive Workshops for the Refreshing Church}

• Healthy team communication

How Do You Come Across When Conflict Begins?

• Leadership Styles: You Mean There’s More Than One?

Four distinctive approaches to leading built on a person’s unique skills and gift mix.

• Going Through Transition: Developing A Plan During The Interim Period

Steps to prepare for writing a new chapter of life and ministry.

• Forgive Them? For Free?

What is forgiveness? What does it look like in real life? What is it not?

How can it become genuine and transformational?

• Writing Your Calling Statement

Knowing who you are and what you must be about.

• So That’s Why They Call It Addiction

How an addiction forms and some definable steps into addiction that may be prevented.

{coming soon...}

Confirming Your Ministry Style . . .And How You Fit

The Church’s Unique Purpose is to restore it’s people to God in order to release them to reveal and reflect the forgiveness and compassion of Jesus Christ.