Our Vision
1. God has given us a vision of a restored American church, a church that gets healthy, stays healthy, grows and multiplies. United Front Ministries is deeply concerned about the health of the American church. Leading church analysts such as Lyle Schaller, George Barna, and Mike Regele stress the alarming truth that over 80% of American Protestant churches are in plateau and decline. In short, the church in America has lost its ability to reach its transitioning communities for Christ, turning ever inward in the service of itself as it abandons its zeal for evangelism. The time is now for the cycle of plateau and decline to be broken.

Our experience in church development and church redevelopment spans nearly twenty years. The past decade has been spent in experiential research and development that have resulted in comprehensive training, coaching and assessing. With United Front as a resource, there is no reason for any church simply to let the future happen. Rather, every church, at any stage of life, can make its future happen by embracing the spiritual renewal and strategic initiative that are available through United Front Ministries.

2. God has given us a vision of a healthy American church, a church that perpetually grows and multiplies, avoiding the drift into plateau and decline that has become so prevalent. United Front’s extensive study and interaction with churches on the backside of the lifecycle have brought an intimate understanding of the nature and causes of plateau and decline. Equipping churches on the upside of the lifecycle with appropriate tools and perspectives enables them to extend their seasons of health indefinitely.

3. God has given us a vision of dynamic leadership in the American church, leadership that is spiritually and strategically trained, coached, and assessed to produce maximum effectiveness. The future of the American church rests largely in the hands of its local pastors and lay leaders. Training, coaching, and assessing provided by United Front positions pastors and lay leaders to bring the ministry of the first century church into the church of the twenty-first century.

4. God has given us a vision of regional and national church organizations with internal development and redevelopment systems, developed in partnership with United Front. Our ministry multiplies itself through the training and development of “field” trainers, coaches and assessors empowered within the organizations we serve. Our long-term vision sees United Front Ministries as an unrelenting research and development ministry that continues to design and develop new and better materials, and that continues to train and develop new and better trainers, coaches, and assessors.

United Front Ministries – Empowering the church spiritually and strategically to get healthy, stay healthy, grow and multiply through church development, church redevelopment, leadership development, and systems development.

Getting Healthy – Staying Healthy – Growing - Multiplying

 

A Ten-Year Plan: 2005 – 2015
The over-arching goal of United Front for the next ten years is to take pastors and leaders of 30,000 American Protestant churches through successful application of the Church Development and ReDevelopment processes.

With these 30,000 churches as our field, we expect:

To increase conversion by 1000%.
To send 20,000 people into multiplication ministry.
To plant 10,000 domestic churches.

Further we expect:

To minister to 250 ministry organizations.
To partner with 25 ministry organizations.
To train and certify 1000 field coaches.
To train and certify 100 field trainers.

We will also establish a series of United Front networks to provide ongoing communication, certification, distribution of publications and other resources, regional and national conferencing, and the like.

The United Front Pastors & Leaders Network
The United Front Coaches& Trainers Network
The United Front Partners Network

The United Front Foundation
Discussions are underway to establish a foundation that will provide the opportunity for research projects, pilot projects, training and coaching scholarships, and missions activity in urban and international settings. In view is The Center for Urban and International Church ReDevelopment. A ReDevelopment training event in Jamaica revealed two unexpected links: 1). In terms of social and societal ministry, what we found in Jamaica in terms of employment, poverty, drug use, promiscuous sex, education, and other such issues was much like what we find in the U.S. urban/inner city context, and 2) due to the European influence through colonization, the structural issues that we found in declined Jamaican churches were much like what we find in declined American and European churches. This opens a line of ministry pursuit that suggests that United Front’s ministry of Church ReDevelopment has much to offer the international churches in the U.S. and in countries of the Caribbean, Latin and South America, South Africa, Asia, Australia, and others. ReDevelopment in these contexts will be addressed with a missions mindset through the foundation.