In Places of Promise Cynthia Woolever and Deborah Bruce present the ways in which location is defined and employ results from research to reveal how location influences congregational life. Woolever and Bruce include illustrations to demonstrate that every congregation can achieve strength and effectiveness in its present location if its ministry focus and leadership decisions parallel factors that are important to the community.
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Cynthia Woolever is Director of the U.S. Congregational Life Survey for U.S. Congregations and Professor of Sociology of Religious Organizations at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research at Hartford Seminary. She is the coauthor of A Field Guide to U.S. Congregations and Beyond the Ordinary, also published by Westminster John Knox Press. Deborah Bruce is Project Manager of the U.S. Congregational Life Survey for U.S. Congregations and Associate Research Manager in the Research Services Office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). She is the coauthor of A Field Guide to U.S. Congregations and Beyond the Ordinary.
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welcoming new people, sharing faith, growing spiritually, empowering leadership, worshiper demographics, congregational features, churched areas, congregational strengths, congregational vitality, older worshipers, ten strengths, vitality measure, gray identifies, meaningful worship, new worshipers, numerical growth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bible Belt, Sense of Belonging, Growing Suburban, Economically Distressed Urban, United States, High-Mobility Urban, New Mexico, Location Factors, Bible Rest Belt, Finding Strength, Small Cities Economically, Congregational Life Survey, These Congregational Strengths, Overall Vitality Browse Sample Pages:
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