Positioning Your Church

You can overcome growth barriers, revive a declining or plateaued church and enhance church structure for the future of your ministry. If you're the historic church in the center of town or a new non-denominational church plant, this powerful growth strategy will bring vibrancy back to your church.

Is your church in decline?

Whether the result of a church split, leadership failure, economic/job shift in community, demographic shift, location or facility limitations – any declining church can be turned around with strong leadership and intense focus. Positioning Your Church founder and author, Pastor Terry L. Bates, literally "wrote the book" on this very topic. He has personally led two turnaround churches and he has coached many others through a turnaround process customized for their specific ministry as a result of a Ministry MAP (Ministry Assessment Profile). Read more...

Or simply plateaued, awaiting growth?

Beginning with a Church Health Assessment, the development of a Church Health Team, the strategy for greater Church Health and the implementation of the Church Health process – your plateaued church can take off again! An estimated 65% of all churches are plateaued, meaning they have less than a 3% increase in attendance each year. Unless something is done to stimulate a higher growth and retention rate, these churches typically become declining churches in as little as three to five years of being plateaued. By providing a customized Ministry MAP (Ministry Action Plan), these churches will restart a healthy growth cycle. Read more...

Awesome – your church is growing, now what?

We've found a large number of growing churches lack the necessary infrastructure to sustain continued growth. Churches that do not modify their ministry infrastructure will find themselves in a cyclical pattern of peaking and then shrinking back to a size that can be accommodated by the current church organizational structure. This is also referred to as hitting a “growth barrier.” For these churches a customized Ministry MAP (Ministry Advancement Process) is provided that will establish the necessary infrastructure for continued and sustainable growth. Read more...