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…
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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…
Millions of young Christians are disconnecting from the church as they transition into adulthood. Research indicates that 70 percent of Millennials drop out of the church following high school graduation. Around the world, apart from Ghana and the former Soviet Republic of Georg…
This project addressed a lack of opportunities for Christian vocational discernment at First United Methodist Church in Arkadelphia, Arkansas (FUMCA). The research question asked what effect, if any, the public speech of leaders would have on the vocational self-understanding of…
Population is exploding, and yet the church, in some areas, is declining. High-capacity leaders, who can lead large groups of people toward gospel advancement, are needed now more than ever. The research question that this project seeks to answer is: what are the factors that pr…
This project explores the new covenant community, identified by ἐκκλησία, and translated as church. Chapter 1 introduces the new covenant community which consist of all new covenant recipients. Chapter 2 surveys biblical covenants which provide the basis for the physical rule of…
The church has been keeping records in various forms for centuries. The Episcopal Church in the US continues that tradition and has focused in the last century primarily on membership and average Sunday worship attendance (ASA). Several research organizations collect data from c…
This project seeks to introduce leaders to biblical counseling at Mount Ararat Bible Church (MABC) in Northridge, California. Chapter 1 describes the ministry context of MABC and the goals of the project. Chapter 2 establishes the centrality of the heart in biblical counseling t…