Helpful Links
VCI provides helpful resources. Links are organized by the following categories:
- Assessment and Demographics
- Congregational Vitality
- Evangelism
- Missional and Emergent Church
- New Church Development
Assessment and Demographics
www.holycowconsulting.com – Offers tools for understanding congregational dynamics
www.perceptgroup.com – Geographic and demographic studies
www.barna.org – Statistics and materials on transformation
Congregational Vitality
www.presbygrow.net – Transformational and Missional Links (Presbyterian)
www.churchleadership.com – Lewis Center for Church Leadership, Methodist
www.netresults.org – Addresses church growth issues, congregational vitality, digital magazine
www.smallgroups.com – Start-up information, training and sustaining tools, etc.
www.scripture-connections.org – Bible study series for preaching, small group study (mention VCI referral for a discount).
www.holycowconsulting.com – Congregational vitality assessment instruments
Evangelism
www.gracenet.info – Martha Grace Reese – Evangelism tools for the mainline church
www.evangelismcoach.net – Witness and evangelism training and coaching
www.magnetic-church.com – Andrew Weeks practical evangelism
Missional and Emergent Church
www.gocn.org – Relating the Gospel to Our Culture Network – the missional church
www.cofe.anglican.org/info/papers/mission_shaped_church.pdf – Mission-Shaped Church pdf file
www.allelon.org – Missional church information
www.emergentvillage.com – Emergent and missional church information
www.krusekronicle.typepad.com/ – Blog on contemporary church and society
New Church Development
http://www.newchurchstarts.com – Jim Dougans and team: new church development
http://www.coachnet.org/en/ – Bob Logan coaching and new church development
http://www.omegastrategygroup.com – Omega Strategy Group