Church Development & Revitalization

You Are Not Alone!

The Presbytery of Transylvania’s Church Revitalization & Development team is willing and able to support and come beside your church’s leadership. We will respond if you just believe it is important to assess whether your congregation is ready to ask and answer those questions!

Presbytery of Transylvania

PO Box 23580
Lexington, KY 40523
Phone: 859-264-8867

Resources & Documents
Date
Info

03/23/24
Examples of How Churches in Our Presbytery Are Responding to God’s Leading
COMING SOON!
03/23/24

03/23/24
Holy Conversations
A paperback. Strategic Planning as a Spiritual Practice for Congregations by Gil Rendle.
03/23/24

03/23/24
Holy Cow Consulting Firm
This may be a helpful resource when congregations do not have the leadership to initiate and to complete an assessment process or have the funds to use a consulting firm.
03/23/24

03/23/24
Lay Mobilization Institute
The Lay Mobilization Institute is a discipling process that refocuses the pastor from being the primary provider of training and allows all — pastor and congregational members — to influence each other’s gifts and experiences.
03/23/24

03/23/24
New Beginnings
Offering churches an initial framework for decision making with respect to discerning its current mission in its community. NOTE: Once there is a decision, the CRD team will come alongside pastors, church leaders and congregants who have chosen to seek the Spirit’s input into the future of their ministries. By using this and/or other assessments we will provide support with the implementation.
03/23/24

03/23/24
Together is Better: How Small Membership Churches Fulfill God’s Missional Call through Partnerships by Rev. Lisa Culpepper, Mt. Horeb Presbyterian Church
This book addresses the urgent need for revitalization through collaboration in mission and arises out of the real-life ministry commitment of several small congregations in New Harmony and Trinity presbyteries. This webinar will serve as an introduction and guide to the missional cluster model of collaboration. The rationale and methodology for working together enable small membership churches to do together what they could not do alone. Let’s move beyond our doors and into our neighborhoods…Together.
03/23/24

03/23/24
Transforming Church
A paperback. Bringing Out the Good to Get to Great by Kevin Ford
03/23/24

03/23/24
Transylvania Hospitality Participant Guide
03/23/24

Members
  • Rev. Keith Benze, Teaching Elder, Versailles Presbyterian Church