“Attendance is sagging. We haven’t seen a visitor in a while. Giving is down, making it harder and harder to keep ministries going. We’re short on people who are willing to serve and people who are willing to lead. It seems we keep going back to same group of people year after year trying to get more service and more leadership out of them, when they’re already out of gas. We know what God can do, but we struggle as to when and how He will do something here in our church. We’re losing hope.”

Could this, or something like it, be said of your church? If so, you need to know that you are not alone. According to leading church analysts such as Lyle Schaller, George Barna and Mike Regele, you are not alone in that over 80% of American Protestant churches are in plateau and decline. There is an epidemic of sagging attendance, diminishing giving, and service and leadership shortages in the American church. The influence of the American church on American culture is fading, marginalized more and more with each passing year.

You are also not alone in that there is a ministry that specializes in working with churches such as yours that will redevelop your ministry, strengthen your church, and position your church to reach lost people in your community. United Front Ministries is here to help. United Front can show you why your church is where it is on the church lifecycle, can show you what needs to be done to reverse negative trends, and can show you how to make it happen.

There is a solution, The TurnOut Solution. Using this proven approach, spiritual renewal combines with strategic initiative to move your church from plateau or decline to health and growth. Hundreds of churches are already benefiting from United Front’s church redevelopment ministry. Now you can find out more.

THE TURNOUT SOLUTION
A ONE-DAY SEMINAR

For many years, United Front Ministries has conducted one-day seminars in Church ReDevelopment. These are generally used by regional or national church entities to expose their pastors and leaders to the ReDevelopment ministry of United Front, with a view toward seeing those pastors and leaders engage the more comprehensive redevelopment ministry that United Front provides once they have had this exposure. These one-day seminars present key principles and concepts that address church redevelopment, and provide a self-assessment tool to help church leaders identify where their churches are on the church lifecycle. Contents of the one-day seminar include:

Lifecycles
Distinctive Characteristics of Lifecycle Stages
The I.D. of a Church
The Geometry of Church Structure
The Upside-Down Church
Lifecycle Assessment
Assessment Tools
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The Phases of ReDevelopment
ReVision
Strategy
The People in the Process of ReDevelopment
Principles for Aligning People

The basic premise behind United Front’s ReDevelopment training is the realization that churches lapse into plateau and decline because, over time, they turn more and more inward. ReDevelopment guides churches into understanding this reality with its spiritual and strategic implications. The solution, stated in the most simplistic terms, is that churches must turn outward in order to correct spiritual negatives and to strategically reach lost communities, thereby fostering health and growth and an increase in turnout. Hence the play the words: Turn out and increase your turnout – The Turnout Solution. The basics of the TurnOut Solution are covered in the one-day seminar.