Renewing the County Seat Church

This seminar is designed to focus on specific strategies and proven methods to renew the county church, which is an exciting and continuing challenge.  Participants will gain insight into the unique dynamics of life in a county seat church that impact ministry there.  There will be offered practical coaching of participants on how to develop an effective strategy for implementing ministry back home.

Goals of this Two-Day Seminar
To bring clarity to the following questions:
What does it take to be effective in the county seat church?
What does it take to be an effective leader of the county seat church?
How do you get started?
What are the basic things to focus on to build a solid foundation for the future ministry?

Topics
Assets based ministry
Thinking and acting regionally
Reaching ethnic, cultural, or economic groups in your mission field
Building by addition, not by change
What we are learning from the struggles
Importance of worship: preaching and music
Outreach: for or with?
Partnerships and community development within the community and county
Building the staff
Resourcing laity
Philosophy and practice of children, youth, and adult ministries
Care teams
Financial strategies for healthy ministry
Facilities and parking challenges
Future opportunities - where we are heading
Use of core values to develop ministry
Developing spiritual leaders to lead needed change and ministries

LEADERS

Dr. Doug Anderson -- Executive Director of the Bishop Rueben Job Center for Leadership Development at Dakota Wesley University

Rev. Marvin Arnpriester -- Pastor of Broadway United Methodist Church in Council Bluffs, Iowa, along with the team from Broadway UMC

DATES AND PLACES

This seminar will be held on the following dates and locations.  Click on a location for further information.

March 29-30, 2011 -- Pine Bluff, Arkansas