Links to WWW Sites on Church Growth
WWW Links on Church Growth Church Growth Associations Seminaries Data Church Growth Methodologies Churches Using Church Growth Methods  Church Planting University of Glamorgan Modelling Research   Details of Models Limited Enthusiasm Births, Deaths & Reversion  Renewal   Details of Results Summary of Results Short Term Revival  Long Term Growth Long Term Decline  Growth via Renewal   References & Bibliography  Mathematics of Church Growth Church Growth Revival  System Dynamics  Sociology of Religion Epidemics  Social Diffusion Publications Articles	The church growth models do not depend on any particular church growth methodology and as such endorse none. The models assume growth through contact between believer and unbeliever. However most methodologies discuss contacts between believer and unbeliever, reversion, child retention etc. even though they do not come to any quantifiable and testable conclusions. Thus they provide useful background information. Church Growth Associations Healthy Church (formerly British Church Growth Association) American Society for Church Growth Church Growth and the Center for Church Growth Seminaries Seminaries where church growth research is conducted include: Fuller Theological Seminary. Hartford Seminary Return to Top Data Christian Research American Religion Data Archive Return to Top Church Growth Methodologies Cell Church - USA: https://www.touchusa.org/defaultpage.htm Cell Church - UK: http://www.cellchurch.co.uk/ A report on Megachurches from Hartford Theological Seminary G12 method of cell church multiplication G12Harvest.org Return to Top Churches Using Church Growth Methods Saddleback Church Willow Creek Community Church Return to Top Church Planting Movements (CPM's) Church planting movements are rapidly growing churches formed by planting new churches in areas where there was no Christian influence previously. They usually occur among specific people groups and the movements quickly become indigenous. World Changers Follow the right hand side links on "contagious relationships" and "movement lifecycle" for ideas similar to the church growth models Baptist Press Church-planting movements: Gospel chain reaction Church Planting Movements - homepage and source of the definitive books on CPM's: Church Planting Movements, How God is Redeeming a Lost World by David Garrison. A copy of a related booklet can be downloaded here. Global Frontier Missions - A good definition of CPM's. International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention . Return to Top