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The Kilgore Group LLC has extensive experience with church and church-related organizations in the areas of planning, conflict resolutions, staff development and congregational training. As churches experience growth, community changes or demographic shifts, let the Kilgore Group LLC assist with strategic planning to ensure the church's effectiveness. The group has provided judicatory leadership and organizational skills development among the local, regional and national levels of the church. Our involvement spans all denominations.

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Church Check List:

If your church can say, “yes” to any of the following, we can help!

❒    Our church is growing but we don’t have a shared vision that most members support.
❒    Our church is an older church and we are not keeping up to the changes in our community.
❒    We are a friendly church but we mostly look after each other since we have all been  
        members for a long time.
❒    We are uncomfortable with the idea of evangelism but we would like to be more in
        ministry.
❒    We spend too much time in meetings but seem to produce nothing much from them.
❒    Our worship is not what most would consider inspiring, but we go through the motions anyway.
❒    We have considerable conflict in our church with different groups disagreeing on what we should be doing.
❒    We are considering a building program but we are not sure what ministries will be served by our building.
❒    I am a pastor and I feel burned out trying to meet all the expectations of people.
❒    I am a pastor and my seminary training didn’t really prepare me to lead effectively.
❒    I am a pastor and I love preaching and counseling, but my people expect strong leadership from me and that isn’t my calling.
❒    We have a need for spiritual development but are not sure what to do to grow the congregation spiritually.
 
 
 “LOOKING FOR A POWERFUL WAY TO RESOLVE DIFFERENCES AND GET YOUR CHURCH MOVING IN ITS MINISTRY?”  

HEALTHY CHURCH DNA™  

The new, powerful 7-step process to renew & grow your congregation,
use your gifts, and do God's work!

THE CONCEPT: Healthy Church DNA™

In the same manner that an individual has genetic potential, every congregation has a collective potential - a gift from God. Healthy Church DNA™ has identified Fifteen Church Genes that Grow Healthy Churches:

  • Uplifting Worship
  • Effective Pastoral Leadership
  • Empowered Lay Leadership
  • Open and Caring Community
  • Life Cycle Spiritual Development
  • Responsive Evangelism
  • Clear and Open Communication
  • Healthy Transitions
  • Whole Person Stewardship
  • Community Servant Ministries
  • Stimulating Shared Vision and Mission
  • Effective and Transparent Organization
  • Comprehensive Programs and Ministries
  • Accessible and Functional Facilities
  • Collaborative Team Leadership

No church is expected to be outstanding on all fifteen genes in order to be considered a healthy congregation. Instead, the best profile of strengths and assets (genes) for each congregation will differ according to its unique context and mission.

Healthy Church DNA™ helps a congregation identify its innate gifts and talents (genes) and develop them in order to fulfill that congregation's special calling.

 

THE 7-STEP PROCESS: DISCERN Plus™

 

THE DIFFERENCE: Healthy Church DNA™

Strength-based
Instead of an emphasis on analyzing problems and weaknesses, the process focuses on identifying and maximizing the congregation's strengths and assets (genes).

Competency-based
Assesses and develops the specific competencies (of church leaders, members and consultants,) that are necessary to facilitate the Healthy Church DNA™ process and support the congregation in the journey to its preferred future.

Situational
The congregational history, geographic and demographic context, stage in the church life cycle, and other factors are different for every congregation. The mission to which any particular congregation is called is unique and requires a unique profile of strengths and assets (genes).

Comprehensive, Flexible
Trained consultants facilitate a custom-designed process of assessment, congregational events, and post-intervention support and training. The process is flexibly designed to meet the goals of healthy congregations as well as those churches that are at any level of conflict or demise.

Congregation-based
Usually, the entire congregation is included in a Healthy Church DNA™ process. In a limited conflict or in a performance development situation, the people who are involved are invited into the process. Change occurs more smoothly because of broad and representative participation. The process is "bottom-up" instead of "top down."

Inspirational
Hope-filled and highly participatory, the Healthy Church DNA™ process increases collaboration, creates closer relationships and fosters positive change among the participants.

 

FOR HEALTHY CHURCHES

Many congregations have successfully navigated the whirlpool of change that has surrounded churches in recent years. The challenge for these churches is to continually renew themselves in order to meet the ever-changing needs and opportunities of the future.

The Healthy Church DNA™ process will assist healthy congregations to:

  • identify their congregation's Healthy Church DNA™ strengths and competencies (genes).
  • identify the Healthy Church DNA™ strengths and competencies (genes) for their pastor(s), staff and lay leadership.
  • review the current status of their congregation.
  • reassess the local context of their ministries.
  • strengthen the congregation's commitment to a collaboratively developed vision of the ministries to which God is calling them.
  • align the congregation's strengths and assets (genes) with its mission and vision.
  • maximize the strengths of the pastor(s), staff and lay leadership and develop competencies that are essential to the mission and vision of the congregation.
  • enhance the congregation's sense of community, build resilience and mobilize the gifts of pastor(s), staff and members.

FOR STRUGGLING CHURCHES

Over the last several decades, churches have been challenged by:

  • socio-economic and political forces.
  • shifting priorities and changing attitudes of passing generations.
  • demographic shifts.

Across all denominations, all congregational sizes and all ministry settings, there are churches that are in demise or immobilized by conflict.

The Healthy Church DNA™ process is designed to help struggling congregations:

  • overcome interpersonal differences and conflict.
  • develop an accurate and current understanding of their congregation.
  • recognize changes in the community they serve and related opportunities for ministry.
  • focus on the future and possibilities.
  • unify the congregation around viable goals and an action plan that will help them fulfill God's calling.
  • celebrate and use their strengths and assets (genes) in ministry. utilize appropriate coaching and/or training to develop essential strengths and competencies of pastor(s), staff, lay leaders and members.
 
Surveys used in the Healthy Church DNA Process:

•    Healthy Church ®DNA Survey
•    Pastoral Strengths for Healthy Church DNA® Leadership
•    Staff Team Strengths for Healthy Church DNA® Leadership

Healthy Church DNA™ Facilitator Training is Available For:

  • Judicatories
  • Internal Consultants
  • Conflict Intervention/Church Growth Teams

Congregational Process Facilitation or Consultation is Available For:

  • Congregational Planning
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Church Growth
  • Pastoral, staff or ministry team development


Contact Us today to learn more about Healthy Church DNA™

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