Your Church Can Grow

According to Jim Griffith, himself not a Methodist, The United Methodist Church is the only denomination that has an intentional, systematic plan to plant new churches among the mainline churches in the United States. It is heartening to see how this is being lived out in several Annual Conferences. Last night I met Mark Appleyard, an Australian. The Western North Carolina Annual Conference has recruited Mark to plant the third campus of one of their healthy, growing congregations. When churches and conferences begin to search far and wide to achieve the goal of planting new churches, we are on the right track. The movement for planting churches is gaining steam. It needs to. Jim Griffith also said that the decade between 2010-2020 will show a steep decline in attendance and giving in existing churches.

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