La nivel teoretic, scopul acestui proiect a fost de a mă conștientiza, în primul rând pe mine și apoi pe familia mea, de importanța lucrării de evanghelizare și misiune; de a sensibiliza și provoca credincioșii și conducerile bisericilor din organizația Pfingstkirche Gemeinde Go…
This project is designed to help pastors, ministry leaders, and leaders in the local church with building healthier and more self-aware leaders. Self-aware leaders will be able to understand what and why they do what they do. They will have a better understanding of how to work …
The project director led a team in drafting a strategy for ministry evangelism at Grace Baptist Church of Sunset Beach, Pasadena, Maryland. After reviewing the church’s history, the project director identified the research problem as the need for a strategy in ministry evangelis…
While New Hope Christian Church has a stable membership, it does not appear that New Hope consistently reflects their Christian beliefs outside the church. It is the author’s thesis that the development and implementation of a retreat to engage the leadership of New Hope Christi…
The focus of this qualitative case study was to examine the pre-COVID-19 church attendance decline of all generations in the United States. The problem addressed in this qualitative case study was the current church exodus among multiple generations of attendees and its impact f…
Leadership in the church today must be able to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances and availability of resources in order to allow for the thriving of congregations. In order to serve as Christ served, church leaders must be able to empty themselves of old patterns and behav…
One of the greatest needs of the church is to equip lay leaders who are biblically informed, fully devoted to Christ, and prepared for their leadership role. Lay leaders support the pastor, other church leaders, the church, and their local community with a servant heart. Without…
The project director developed a veteran-pastor involved training program to equip young pastors in the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia (SBCV) with select leadership competencies for leading a church. In chapter 1, the project director describes the purpose and settin…
The purpose of this study was to discover the roles fulfilled by unpaid elders in Southern Baptist churches. This project involved two phases. Phase 1 utilized a forty-five question survey which asked about duties of unpaid elders, competencies of unpaid elders, and barriers to …
Presbyterian Church of (USA) is increasingly facing challenges in improving its influence on society. The stagnancy in the number of members and poor church attendance has been attributing to secularization and globalization but predominantly connected to the ministers' poor lea…
Faith based organizations (FBOs) have failed to engage their millennial members at the same level they have engaged the previous generations. FBO leaders who fail to engage millennials are at risk of not fulfilling their mission. Grounded in the value cocreation model, the purpo…
Christian churches in the United States are notoriously resistant to change, whether in regard to leadership, worship style, church governance, positions on social issues, or myriad other aspects of congregational life. Yet the ability to navigate change successfully is vitally …
The purpose of this project was to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and behavior of select members of Living Stones Church, in Katy, Texas in regard to missional living within the context of multidiverse and multi-cultural suburban neighborhoods. Participants in this study encou…
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how RLs describe their understanding of leadership skills, strategizing for the implementation of leadership skills and evaluating how their leadership skills influence parishioner retention in a charismatic Christ…
This study explores the confluence between socioeconomic diversity, the urban church leader, and dialogical integration within a church body. The study considered church leaders as pastors and those serving the church as volunteers in a leadership capacity. Twenty-five participa…
Leader-member exchange (LMX) theory has been investigated in multiple organizations and fields of study, except in the confines of the local church. The purpose of this research study was to investigate LMX in a local church context to conclude whether LMX theory is practiced in…
The large church, with an average attendance of 500 to 1,000 attendees, plays an important role in the American church landscape. It is also unique in structure because of its place in between the very large group of midsized churches and the much smaller group of megachurches. …
The purpose of the project was to design a training program for developing Christlike leaders in the church. The guiding principle was that growth in Christlikeness is the basis for and power behind leadership training in the church. Chapter 1 presents the context, purpose, goal…