by Beth Kennett | Oct 31, 2016 | Congregations, Consulting, Future, Leadership, Ministers
By Dirk Elliott DownRiver Church celebrated its first worship service as a new church start on July 7, 2013, with 186 people in attendance. DownRiver is a Vital Merger of four churches in the Detroit area. In December, 2012, each of these four churches voted, with...
by Beth Kennett | Mar 21, 2016 | Consulting, Leadership
The conventional approach to problem-solving in business or church is to discover the root cause of a problem and to fix it. Appreciative Inquiry takes a radically different approach: Discover the root of cause of success and improve it. Problems are acknowledged in...
by Beth Kennett | Oct 15, 2015 | Congregations, Consulting
By Rev. Christopher R. Gambill, PhD One of the original drivers for the founding of the Center for Congregational Health in the early 1990s was the emerging need for congregational consultants. Congregational consulting quickly became a core part of the ministry of...
