GROW Magazine

Winter 2005

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District Mission Growth:
Interviews with 6 “Best Practices” District Superintendents

The 2004 church statistics for nearly 5,000 congregations in the 82 districts of the United States and Canada are in. Five districts have been identified for Mission Growth Recognition based on the number of churches reporting growth in several key areas including: New Nazarenes, membership, worship attendance, Sunday School attendance, new church sponsorship and appropriations paid.

New Church Recognition
The most number of new churches reported were on the Washington Pacific and Mid-Atlantic districts, each reporting 12 new congregations. New England was close with 10.

Best Practices Interviews
Tom Nees, UCME Director, interviewed the DSs of the five size groups as well as Ken Mills of the Mid-Atlantic district. The complete interviews will be printed and distributed during the Leadership Conference when the districts are recognized. The following comments were taken from the interviews:Read More>>

This issue of GROW interviews pastors and district superintendents of growing ministries to discover what’s working for them in their best practices. The lead off article by Tom Nees features the top five districts for 2004 in the United States and Canada, selected by various arbitrary sizes. The statistics ranked these districts in each group by the percentage of churches showing growth in areas, including worship attendance, membership, new Nazarenes, Sunday School attendance, new church sponsorship and giving to denominational apportionments. A link is also provided for a more extended version of the interview.

Also, check out the 2004 listing of the Top 50 Nazarene churches adding new members by professions of faith and the ministry updates across the USA and Canada. Other stories this edition include Eastern Michigan District, Winston-Salem (NC), Wichita First Church (KS), Wichita First Family Church, Penny Road (NC), Flint Central (MI), Loveland Community (CO), North Raleigh (NC) and Canton First (OH).

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Strong judicatory leaders in the twenty-first century must be people who have a passion for God and the Great Commission, for out of such passion one derives courage.” – Hit the Bullseye, Paul D. Borden

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