When a Restart Strategy is Your Only

HOPE in Church Revitalization

Vice President, The Timothy Imitative

Mark WeibleChurch Planting Director, GOBA

Greg Kappas

When a Restart Strategy is Your Only HOPE in Revitalization

• Make sure there is growth potential in the facility's location.

• Celebrate the existing church's past.

• Close the doors of the church for a time.

When a Restart Strategy is Your Only HOPE in Revitalization!

Transfer control from local church power brokers to a steering committee of mostly outsiders.

When a Restart Strategy is Your Only HOPE in Revitalization

Change the church's name. Develop a fresh vision for the community.

Call a new church pastor with energy and faith.

Observations about providing HOPE in a Restart Revitalization Effort

•It is the greatest asset of a revitalization pastor, person, or church.

•It is often the only difference between success and failure.

Observations about providing HOPE in a Restart Revitalization Effort!

•Providing hope is the revitalization leaders responsibility.

Observations about providing HOPE in a Restart Revitalization Effort

How a leader offers HOPE to people:

•Help people change their way of thinking.

•Offer security in times of doubt.

•Put some wins under their belt.

•Express sincerely our belief in them.

Other Things to Consider in the Restart Based Church Revitalization ●

●Appoint a church revitalization transition committee (CRTC) that is made up of those outside the existing church.

●Empower the CRTC to make all decisions from the beginning.

●Research target area for what type of new work will have the greatest chance for survival.

To use this model it is critical that a church revitalization restart contract be developed between the old

church and the new church plant.

When a Restart Strategy is Your Only HOPE in Church Revitalization

Greg Kappasgreg@ttionline.org

Mark Weiblemweible@goba.org