Church Health

"Multiplying Healthy Churches

Filled with Disciples Making Disciples"

God’s Intention for His Church!

 Our Ultimate Church Health Goal

     It is God’s will that we see the majority of our people in the majority of our churches demonstrating genuine, God-empowered spiritual health. That will only happen one church, one pastor, one leadership team and one person at a time. And that will only happen as we agree together that this is our Ultimate Church Health Goal:

To equip our churches where the MAJORITY are:

 Our Challenge

     We are at a critical turning point in the history of the North American church and the Christian and Missionary Alliance. We must choose to swim upstream against the currents surrounding us, or we will continue to find ourselves drifting into the clutches of cultural irrelevance. One of the greatest needs in the church today is for pastors who are intentional, determined to bring about necessary change for the sake of the kingdom! Envision our district filled with pastors responding to that challenge! Dream with us of a mighty movement of God unleashed in our churches that will significantly impact the lost in our communities, our nation and our entire world! Respond to the Spirit of the Lord!

 Healthy Church Strategies

     We are always looking for ways to help you in areas of personal growth as well as church health. One important resource is the ongoing encouragement and coaching of our district personnel. We are constantly traveling throughout the district to make ourselves available to you! Here are several more of our methods:

Healthy Church Strategy- We’ve designed a two-year process that walks the local church through personal assessment and change. A district coach guides the church and its leadership through three phases. The objective of the process is to return the church to a Biblical balance of Winning the Lost, Building the Believers, Equipping the Workers, and Multiplying Leaders! 

     The first phase is a one-year implementation process involving all of the leadership of the church. This consists of training, review, assessment, accountability, and practical application. The goal is to have the entire leadership team demonstrating a balanced Great Commandment / Great Commission lifestyle. The second year we begin phase two, a training process involving the rest of the church. One specific goal of the training is to raise up a body of people who know how to effectively cultivate friendships with pre-believers, plant seeds of truth along the way, and lead them to Christ when the time is right! The third phase is the long-term process of keeping the vision alive! The best of plans in life are ruined by a lack of staying power! We are trusting God that this leads to significant change in the area of a Great Commandment / Great Commission living.

Sonlife Training- A key part of our process is understanding the foundational Biblical philosophy that is so necessary for true church health. Sonlife’s "Growing a Healthy Church" Seminar clearly lays that foundation for everything else we want to build into our ministries. We provide on-going training throughout the district for you and your leadership. Come for the first time, or come back as a refresher to remind you of these important truths.

     There are periodic opportunities for advanced training at a Regional or National Sonlife training event. We highly recommend that you take advantage of these opportunities! They will prepare you for critical next steps in ministry. The Christian and Missionary Alliance believes that this is so important to our Mission that it has required GHC for all candidates in the ordination process.

Other Training- We are constantly gathering tools for health, providing training options and creating other resources that will be available for you to help you build a healthy, strong church. We’ve been providing Making Healthy Disciples seminars for the training of your Christian education leadership. We continue to point, take, and send pastors,  their wives, or other leaders, to training events, such as the Purpose-Driven conferences at Saddleback Church.

Coaching Cluster Strategy- We have a number of Coaching Clusters throughout our district. Additional coaching pastors are being trained. They continue to recruit pastors to their clusters. A coaching cluster is a group of 4-5 pastors who meet five times a year for the purpose of encouragement, accountability, prayer, skill-development, and vision building The coaches also spend personal time one-on-one with each of their pastors. Many of us find it difficult to implement the changes that we would like to make in our churches. We love to get together with other pastors of like mind, but it simply doesn’t happen often enough on its own. Clustering our pastors for these purposes can bring significant change to our ministries and our churches!

Thanks for your support and desire to see the kingdom go forward!

Let’s change our world- together!