The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements

After nearly forty years of researching, teaching, and writing about revitalization in smaller congregations, I thought I had discovered most of the necessary ingredients.   My book Turnaround Strategies for the Small Church, published more than a decade ago (Abingdon, 1995), still receives strong affirmation. Now a new phase has begun.   A critical key in the transformation of the 100 “turnaround” churches studied in my book was effective pastoral leadership. Follow-up contact with these churches a decade later revealed that upwards of 75% had either “turned around again” or were…