Church, Leadership, & Association Services & Seminars:
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Gary has led numerous teaching events for pastors, church staffs, leadership teams, and churches over the last twenty years. He is able to customize a self-discovery event, seminar, or teaching event for your leadership team, church board, congregation, group, or association including facilitated conversation and Q and A.
Sample Topics:
- Mystery Church Guest: Gary can attend your church as an anonymous guest and give feedback about first-impressions, signage, property & facilities, and challenges to a visiting outsider. Includes a written report with top three suggestions for change.
- Church Website Design Basics: Your church website is the digital front-door to your church. A large percentage of guests will check out your church online before visiting. Do you have a clear, attractive, and informative webpage—especially one that has the information most important to a first-time guest?
- The Importance of Being a Multi-generational Church: Why it is critical to reach, couples, families with children, and young people—key issues—the dangers of declining below critical mass—creating a healthy church culture.
- Identifying and Leveraging Church Core Values: A helpful assessment of realized values coupled with a discussion of aspirational values—the critical things that would make your church better.
- The Principles and Importance of Pastoring Your Community: It is not enough to pastor and minister to the members of your congregation. It is crucial to think like a missionary. Your community is your primary mission field. It is time to lift up your eyes!
- The Guest-friendly Church: What can you do to make guests feel more welcome—simple things to help an outside understand, feel welcomed, and feel valued—take away barriers preventing the unchurched from hearing the message and coming to faith and fellowship.
- The Church Lifecyle—Where is Your Church? Organizations—including the local church have a lifecycle. Is yours nearing the end? Learn principles and ways to revitalize your church with new vision and new life.
Other subjects are available, contact Gary regarding your needs and desires.