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On the Web
- Direct Church Growth - Information and research in the field of church growth. Designed for pastors, church, organizational, and denominational leaders.
- English Church Growth - Examples of ways in which church growth has taken place using the author's Church Growth Scheme.
- American Society for Church Growth - International organization which seeks to provide a networking system for those individuals or organizations interested in the numerical growth of churches.
- Center for Church Growth - A full range of services presenting methods that equip churches for spiritual and numerical growth.,
- Church Growth Institute - Tools for leadership, evangelism, and church growth. They have published such resources as the attendance campaign "Friend Day."
- Church Growth Resources - Resources for studying church growth, including the planting of new churches. Developed by Howard Culbertson, professor of missions at Southern Nazarene University.
- Cell Church International - Promoting leadership development and church growth. Details of advanced training and annual International Cell Church Conferences.
- National Church Growth Research Center - Washington, DC. Research, writing and publishing of resources for church growth.
- Mapping Center for Church Growth - Resources and services for churches focused primarily on demographics and census information.
- Lazarus Project - Principles to promote congregational and church renewal, revitalization and growth. Book, seminars, conferences for pastors, ministers and church lay leaders.
Wikipedia Articles
- Church Growth - Church Growth is a movement within Evangelical Christianity which emphasizes missionary work combined with sociological awareness of the target population. The seeker sensitive label for this approach characterizes the would-be converts as "seekers".
- First Baptist Church of Springdale - First Baptist Church, located in Springdale, is the largest church in the state of Arkansas. A member of the Southern Baptist Convention, this church has exploded in growth over the last several years.
- Natural Church Development - Natural Church Development is the multi-year project of Christian Schwarz. His goal was research Church growth to find out what common traits growing churches had in common.
- Raëlian Church membership estimates - Various news media have Raëlian Church membership estimates, and the statistics agree with a long-term term trend of past growth. However, despite the media's efforts to provide coverage on the Raëlians, the estimates taken within a given year can vary by tens of thousands.
- Jesse Babcock Ferguson - Jesse Babcock Ferguson (January 19, 1819–September 3 or September 4, 1870) was an American Christian preacher who developed Spiritualist leanings in the 1840s and 1850s while serving as the preacher at the Nashville, Tennessee Church of Christ. He edited a periodical called The Christian Magazine and drew large numbers into the church with his powerful preaching, leading to congregational growth and the construction of a new church building.