Growing the Small Church

  I am really excited to get this tribe of small church leaders established; I can’t wait to see how many hands make the work light applied to action.   Before I get too far ahead let me explain where I’m starting in my small church. My family’s church Returning to Truth Ministries was established 2/9/2003. When our church started it was not as diverse as one would like for a startup, (In time you will see I make many comparisons to a church and a startup firm) the demographics were either over 35 or less than 20, black, low income, and unemployed. So we started off rough, we also started off with less than 20 members. We fall into a group not even listed in most church size classifications.   Needless to say we’ve had the hamster wheel affect when it comes to growth. As the under 20 crowd grew and had children the numbers increased and for a while we hit the magical 50 number but people lost interest ,lost passion, or gained independence and stop coming(myself included...

  Welcome to this new blog: Growing the small church. I hope through my trials and errors we are able  t o grow small churches. Mega churches are awesome but they can’t be on every corner nor can they affect every neighborhood in how they need support. Despite how the trends look, there is a place for small churches in the world. In this bleak moment where Covid-19 has made gathering difficult mega churches small churches have the opportunity to fill a void. My family sized church (50 members or less) falls under the criteria for gathering, we’re in Michigan one of the strictest states with Covid restrictions so being able to have service is a great thing. Depending where you live and worship things may differ but soon people will want more than a streamed service (shot out to the churches mastering Facebook live and paying for other streaming services) and when that happens we have to be ready to support our communities and people of God. Needless to say I hope to help everyo...