Helpful Links

VCI provides helpful resources. Links are organized by the following categories:

• Assessment and Demographics
• Congregational Vitality
• Evangelism
• Missional and Emergent Church
• New Church Development

Assessment and Demographics

www.holycowconsulting.com – Offers tools for understanding congregational dynamics

www.perceptgroup.com – Geographic and demographic studies

www.barna.org – Statistics and materials on transformation

Congregational Vitality

www.presbygrow.net  – Transformational and Missional Links (Presbyterian)

www.churchleadership.com – Lewis Center for Church Leadership, Methodist

www.netresults.org – Addresses church growth issues, congregational vitality, digital magazine

www.smallgroups.com – Start-up information, training and sustaining tools, etc.

www.scripture-connections.org – Bible study series for preaching, small group study (mention VCI referral for a discount).

www.holycowconsulting.com – Congregational vitality assessment instruments

Evangelism

www.gracenet.info – Martha Grace Reese – Evangelism tools for the mainline church

www.evangelismcoach.net – Witness and evangelism training and coaching

www.magnetic-church.com – Andrew Weeks practical evangelism

Missional and Emergent Church

www.gocn.org  – Relating the Gospel to Our Culture Network – the missional church

www.cofe.anglican.org/info/papers/mission_shaped_church.pdf – Mission-Shaped Church pdf file

www.allelon.org – Missional church information

www.emergentvillage.com – Emergent and missional church information

www.krusekronicle.typepad.com/ – Blog on contemporary church and society

New Church Development 

http://www.newchurchstarts.com – Jim Dougans and team: new church development

http://www.coachnet.org/en/ – Bob Logan coaching and new church development

http://www.omegastrategygroup.com – Omega Strategy Group