Presbygrow

Welcome to PresbyGrow! Thanks for stopping by our site.

Presbygrow is a ministry of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and our Church Growth Network. Our goal is to make the best resources available — across denominational lines — for New Church Development, Church Transformation and Church Growth in general.

If you have something — a resource, website, or idea that you would like to see here, email me. We will make sure it gets posted. This site is for you so help us make it the best it can be.

The Office of Church Growth would like to make our staff, field staff and NCD coaches available to come and work with your Presbytery or church. Click here if you would like to send a request for a visit from a member of the Church Growth Staff or a NCD Coach. Or if you prefer to talk to a live person, give us a call at 888-728-7228 ext 5247.

Have a great day and happy exploring!

Philip Lotspeich, Coordinator for the Office of Church Growth

The Office of Small Church and Community Ministry has produced several excellent new resources that are focused on the needs of small congregations in the PC(USA).

Many of these resources can be downloaded free from the website, or may be purchased for a small fee.

Click here for more information.

Beyond the Ordinary is the blog, sponsored by Research Services of the PCUSA, that tracks information and posts findings from the U.S. Congregational Life Survey. Data junkies (like me) will find this fascinating stuff!

http://presbyterian.typepad.com/beyondordinary/

From the website www.offthemap.com

“Otherlyness is the spiritual practice of noticing and serving others in ordinary ways. We believe Christians ought to be known for a way of living that is generous and intentionally otherly at its core.”

The Spiritual Discipline of Serving from Recycle Your Faith on Vimeo.

Rev. Marcia Clark Myers, Director of Vocation for the PC(USA), recently gave a presentation on the challenges facing leaders in the PC(USA) that has generated a lot of Twitter traffic and internet “buzz.”  We here at PresbyGrow encourage all of you watch this presentation which is simultaneously fascinating, sobering, and hopeful.

(from the PCUSA website:)

“Take an informative and revealing look at the challenge of developing Presbyterian leaders for today and tomorrow. View the comprehensive presentation the Rev. Marcia Clark Myers gave to the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) March 24. (To view this file, you must have the free Macromedias Flash Player installed on your computer system.)”

We are pleased to announce that our resource for new church development, Starting New Churches: A Discernment Process, has been revised and updated.    Among the most prominent changes are the additions of appendices at the end of the booklet and the deletion of the DVD that accompanied version 1.0.

You can access the new version by clicking on the “Starting New Churches” icon or by clicking here.