Hillcrest Baptist Church Case Study

Title: Maury Davis- The Man behind the Latest Growth Chapter for Cornerstone Church is the $17M Expansion

Pastor Fred Dyess had retired after serving as pastor for thirty years and Director of Missions for the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans for fourteen years. The Lord called him out of retirement to start a new church. Bro. Fred checked with the Eastern Louisiana Baptist Association Director of Missions, David Brown, to learn what areas the association had targeted for a new church and what was needed. He was told that the Louisiana Baptist Convention required a new church to have a sponsoring church. Dr. Roger Dunlap and Macedonia Baptist Church gladly voted to be our sponsoring church. The Louisiana Baptist Convention and the Eastern Louisiana Baptist Association each gave Victory a budget supplement of $500 per month decreasing

I joined the staff of the Carolina Missionary Baptist Church in March 2002 as a church administrator. My first major responsibility was to complete the development and construction of the Family Life Center. Although, I had worked on development projects in another County before, I had not actually managed the construction of a building and certainly did not know the process in Prince George’s County Maryland where the church is currently located. There was an enormous amount of knowledge for me to gain. My first assignment was to develop a detailed plan. The initial undertaking in the plan was to learn the Construction process.

My Name is Sidikat Ishola and I am a senior attending Houston Baptist University. I am currently a Government major and a Latin American studies minor. I have an interest in our governmental system as well as foreign policy. Within the arena of foreign policy, I have a particular interest in Costa Rican government and interests. I plan to attend law school in the fall of 2017 with a focus in international law.

Overall, the Metropolitan Baptist Church is a very thriving organization. Observing this organization was not only an enjoyable experience, but it was also an effective learning experience. The members within this organization all seem to have a clear understanding of the history and purpose, which affects the way each member works. The Met is strategic in being successful in achieving its purpose. The culture, climate, and authentic relationships within the organization all contribute to its success.

The author discovered four major factors that church growth in the North American Division tremendously. First factor is empowering servant leadership. In this section, the leaders work hard and they are willing to make sacrifice in the purpose to see a growing church. The second one is passionate and authentic spirituality they believe that it is spirituality that is the source of passion of passion and power behind their effectiveness. The third point is about how their members are committed to get involved in different activity. Some churches they not growing because they expect their pastors to do all the duties of the church. The fourth factor about a growing church is God exalting worship. Worship is one of key factor for church growth.

PCHAS will be a subcontractor of Missouri Baptist Children’s Homes (MBCH). The contract will be managed, controlled and supervised by MBCH. PCHAS and MBCH will determine which Sites will be subcontracted out to PCHAS. The number of Specialist and Supervisors will determined by stated contract requirements listed in the application. All therapist will be supervised by a qualified Site Supervisor. in order to ensure satisfactory contract performance. The Site Supervisor of each area will communicate with the Program Director concerning any issues related to the performance of employed therapists in their areas. This communication will be regularly scheduled to ensure that any areas of deficiency or concern will be addressed in a timely manner.

Replanting of a church is truly hard work and this is through experiencing this on a personal level by working for Woodville Church of Christ as from last year in the month of July trying to assists the church in growing and also in replanting. The bible states that “nothing shall become impossible when with God,” (Luke 1:37 NKJV). The task that lies in hand of replanting a new church is not practically impossible but it is usually very overwhelming to anyone trying to engage in it. The church in Woodville has a very conservative and traditional member base which is normally more than 50 members in total and is inclusive of a very young couple that attends the church services. To total number of children that attend the church services are only around 3 to 4 and are mainly the members’

The First Baptist Church of Wasilla is a well-structured and organized church.  The mission of the church states that  We will advance the Kingdom of God by embracing the following five pillars Worship, fellowship, ministry, evangelism and discipleship.   These pillars are simply five components of religious interaction that helps to fulfill the aim of the church which is to bring persons closer to God and to each other.  The doctrine of the church has ten core values which includes, Biblical authority, Kingdom perspective, servant ministry, community impact, cultural engagement, authenticity, integrity, grace-filled relationship and teamwork.

Greater Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church started as a mission doing the work of the Lord in 1969. We toiled tirelessly, and in 1970, we felt the call to organize into a church. A meeting was called, and the motion to organize the church and to elect Reverend Andrew Kelly as Pastor was established. Pastor Lloyd Johnson of New Third Heaven M.B. Church and Pastor J.P. Gordon of New St. Matthew M.B. Church proceeded to assist in the organization of the church.

Robert Morris writes a book about the essentials of Church growth and it's development. Having made that statement, the book achieves its own manner of possessing small nuggets of wisdom. Although, that pill was extremely hard to want to swallow as Robert Morris' book is comprised of the typical attitude of mega church pastors even down to the organizational community approach needed to guide a church, all of this is exceedingly evident in part three. The premise of this book is good that we would want our church's to be blessed and be a blessing. Though the premise was good and had good intention, he tends to have shortsighted view based upon the way he envisions church versus the holistic view of what church should be as a whole.

McIntosh discusses the different stages of church growth in part two. The chapter divisions are based on the size of a church: 15 to 200, 200 to 400, 400 to 800, 800 to 1,500, and 1,500 plus. Within each chapter McIntosh provides key characteristics and key points of transitions. As one move throughout the chapters they come to understand that things must change if a church is to grow. For example, a small church will have a relational pastor who does a great job making his congregation feel welcomed, while a larger church needs a pastor who leads like a manager. As the church grow they will not be able to be as relational

This church founded by Pastor John has enjoyed success for number of years. As the founder of the church he has been with them and been the leader of this congregation that enable them to grow over the years. This church has reached a level of success in adjustments need to be made in order to carry out the work they haven’t given opportunity to do.

During my examination of my church context at New Creation AME Church, I have determined that I will explore the topic of “Restart Churches”. In my current context, the church has been in existence for twenty years, with no physical church home. Given the history, dwindling membership and financial issues, I would classify this church as a Restart Church. Restarts are churches that fall into two categories; those that are either failing, or have failed and those that have assessed that restarting or starting over is the only way to invigorate their church plant or ministry in a way that will thrive and become viable. The term restart covers the gamut of churches a majority of which are small, and in a declining phase of ministry or stuck in the mire of inertia with little or no church growth. A Restart Church is comparable to rebooting your computer. If you experience a problem with your personal computer and the screen freezes or locks, you just press Alt, Ctrl Delete and your computer will soon restart.

Furthermore, it is vitally crucial for the church leadership to clearly articulate its missional vision, which is to be embraced by the rest of the church’s community. The process of spiritual transformation starts from the invitation and continues through engagement and discipleship. This transformational process embodies the missional vision and the language for 'right now ' and 'here '. Surely, the church’s vision ought to be aligned with the missional attributes of the gospel itself, which are 'the good news is for everyone ' and 'belonging before believing '. Our witness should take place amidst relationship and listening. One principle that I consider to be exceptionally useful in my community is St. Patrick’s idea of Celtic Evangelism: establish community, engage in conversation, and invite commitment (2009, 101).