The goals of the current study were to explore Texas Southern Baptist Pastors’ perceptions of violent crisis preparedness and training, explore their experiences with violent crisis preparedness training, and to gain their feedback on why they perceived they were prepared or wha…
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In 1686, Massachusetts Bay Colony lost its charter, and the British government exerted more control over Massachusetts, further enveloping the colony into the folds of the Empire. In the same year, the first Anglican church, King’s Chapel, was established in Massachusetts. With …
Churches across the United States struggle to remain sustainable due to low young adult attendance rates. The purpose of this study was to use a modified version Clark and Estes (2008) gap analysis framework to evaluate how knowledge, motivation, and organizational (KMO) influen…
The opening pages of this thesis offer an historical background of the Chin People and describe the traditional life of residents of the Chin State, Myanmar. The writing then focuses on the Christian Chin immigrant churches and the families who have come as refugees and are now …
The project director trained the assimilation team of LaFayette First Baptist Church in LaFayette, Georgia to design an assimilation plan. Upon review of existing church membership practices, the project director sought to address the lack of a clear system to aid attendees, new…
This project was designed to develop an understanding of church membership at Rock Valley Bible Church in Loves Park, Illinois. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry context of Rock Valley Bible Church and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides exegesis of five pass…
This project sought to help First Baptist Church Talladega effectively assimilate new church members as a significant step in the process of its revitalization as a local church. As opposed to the previous method of a New Member Orientation after an individual had joined as a me…
This project was designed to equip Millennial attenders in local churches in the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention through the integration of an inter-generational discipleship model. Participating SBTC church leaders were encouraged to utilize a four-session curriculum as a…
The ministry setting for this project is a study in the life of Church of the Living God. The ministry setting of Church of the Living God is a blend of traditional and contemporary worship. Leaning more toward a traditional style of worship. This writer maintains that as societ…
Many young adults who attended church as children and teens leave the church as they enter adulthood. The researcher surveyed 100 young adults who attended church as children and teens. Participants who were attending at the time of the study reported more spiritual experiences …
The Coronavirus shutdown forced many churches to move from in-person services to a purely online platform. The purpose of this study is to look into the communicative strategies that churches employed during the Coronavirus shutdown to communicate with their members and outreach…
The great recession of the late 2000’s amplified a decline in mainline Protestant church revenue impacting ministry roles, programming, and missional capability. Trends towards socially conscious corporate business and historical monastic for-profit business in Western Europe se…
Intimate partner violence is a problem impacting faith communities. The problem addressed by this study was the inadequate response from various religious clergy to the domestic violence affecting parishioners. Clergy members are utilized by parishioners as formal and informal s…
Churches in North America are wrestling with the same challenge–how to make disciples. It is the subject of many books, articles, conferences, and podcasts. Added to this challenge is the complexity of contextualizing discipleship methods and practices for the emerging generatio…
This research study examined the described experiences of African American adults who sought the church for support after the violent death of a family member. There are existing disparities in mental health help-seeking behaviors of African American adults compared to other pop…
Spread out around the world are English-speaking international churches being used by God to reach, disciple, and minister to the English-speaking international community. How are these churches reaching out to diverse and transient communities? What are the common strategies us…
Leadership practices continues to be an important topic of conversation within many organizations today including the local church. This correlative study seeks to examine the relationship between pastoral leadership practices and the engagement statistics of their local church.…
In a world that prioritizes secular academy, and adult education outside of the church, the intervention sought to discover the best practices of the local church that help adults grow spiritually and engage in God’s mission. This project researched the field of discipleship, sp…