 Cruise' 12
A motorcycle ride highlighting Arkansas CP Missions
May 21-22, 2012 - Pastor/Staff only ride
$25 (covers snacks, t-shirts, and breakfast)
More Info HERE
The Evangelism and Church Growth Team exists to assist churches to lead more people to faith in Christ; baptize more than had been previously; enroll more people in Bible Study; and involve more people in discipleship activities.
We are available to assist your church in these areas:
- Sunday School
- Discipleship
- Church Growth/Health
- Super Summer
- 40 Days of Purpose
- 40 Days of Community
- Vacation Bible School
Church Consultations
Contact us with questions in the following areas:
- Understanding Growth Barriers
- The Natural Church Development Process
- Assimilating New Members
- Church Growth Principles
- Reaching Secular People
- Enlisting church leaders as growth partners
- Small Group/Sunday School Job Descriptions for Large Churches
- Small Group/Sunday School Job Descriptions for Smaller Membership Churches
- Outreach Fellowships Church Space Analysis
- Distinguishing between Biblical principles and cultural preferences
- Becoming a Family-Friendly Church
- Safety and security issues for preschool and children's ministries.
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 The Great Commission commands Jesus’ followers to make disciples by teaching other believers to obey everything He commanded. Churches often struggle to provide intentional opportunities for their congregations to grow spiritually. Author Dallas Willard observes that a church needs to ask two questions when evaluating its discipleship strategy: 1) What is our plan for making disciples? 2) Does our plan work?
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 Churches want to see more people reached and served, and many rely on Bible study groups to make this happen. But when classes and facilities are already physically and relationally full, Bible study attendance can only increase when new groups are created. More groups mean more people are reached and served.
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 Every year the New Oxford American Dictionary chooses a "new word of the year.” The idea is to find a new word that, as the New Oxford researchers describe it, has “lasting potential as a word of cultural significance and use.” For 2009, the word of the year was “unfriend.”
If you are one of the over 400 million Facebook users in the world, you already understand that the definition of the word unfriend is “to remove someone as a friend from a social networking website.” In the world of social networking, someone who at one time awarded you with friend status can arbitrarily and without warning suddenly unfriend you, leaving you unable to see his or her status updates, photos, and other information. Their act of unfriending you now leaves you on the outside of their social networking circle.
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