Next webinar on congregational transformation to be held on multiple days

Making Shifts without Making Waves is the title of the next webinar on congregational transformation being offered by the Columbia Partnership with the sponsorship of the Office of Church Growth. For the first time during this pilot project the webinar will be offered on multiple days — Tuesday and Wednesday, July 21, 22 and 23 at 2 p.m. EDT each day. [Learn more]

Starting New Churches

For years we have struggled with how to provide presbyteries and churches a helpful resource that walks through the process of starting new churches. Now we have found a way to help! Download Starting New Churches: A Process of Discernment, a 16-gathering study that will take you from “zero” to “calling a pastor.” Please feel free to use and modify it as much as you want.

The Office of Church Growth

Welcome to the Office of Church Growth of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Our office produces and identifies resources for congregations and middle governing bodies that are helpful in growing healthy, missional and vital congregations.

Church Growth works in partnership with pastors, committees and middle governing bodies to provide training, resources and consultation in planting and growing new congregations.

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Find out how God is birthing something new

The Rev. Ann Marie Myerhoffer of the United Presbyterian Church (UPC) in Milford, Connecticut, had a “radical and risky” idea after participating in a “Deep and Wide” evangelism consultation at Stony Point conference center in New Y. A few months later she suggested and her session agreed to declare March as a “month of Sabbath” meaning there would be no meetings. “Imagine that!” says Marie Myerhoffer. “The time normally spent on church business became time for devotion, reflection and sharing our faith stories with each other. UPC is beginning the catch the excitement and vision for evangelism.” Learn more.