CHURCH GROWTH DEPARTMENT - HIM

Hi everyone, my name is Jeff. I am speaking on behalf of our church growth department. You may not know this, but at this moment in time (May 2009), we have about 11000 people in our whole movement attending our services with 9000 people attending care groups. For our church growth, our goal is to help some of our churches to break certain barriers.

Pastor Jeffrey Chong Video Interview

Church growth toward 100 people

You may not know this, but out of these 117 churches we have right now in our movement, 85% have under 100 people attending. So in the next two years, one of our major growth goals is to help 30 of these churches cross the 100-people mark.

[Corporate Prayer in Hope Singapore]

Church growth toward 1000 people

We would also like to help three of our major churches break the 1000 people barrier. Why are we doing this? It is because we want to create strong regional hubs for our churches worldwide. The three churches are Hope Kuching, Hope Brisbane and Hope Kuala Lumpur.

Strategies for Church Growth

To accomplish all these goals and targets, materials and training will be provided to help churches break the 100 people and 1000 people mark.

[Mothers Day Service in Hope Singapore]

For the 30 churches aiming to break the 100 people mark, we have training materials to help the youth ministry.

• Youth Ministry

In particular, to help those who are interested in learning more about youth ministry. We will teach them how to build a youth care group beyond 10 people, 30 people, and how to reach out to the youth, how to run an evangelistic youth service.

• Children Ministry

We also have tools to build our children’s church. They include materials for training the children’s church helpers and curriculum plans for the lessons. There are materials for a variety of ministries: university students, our adults group, and family, Filipino services. All this we are willing and able to provide for you.

• Training Resources

So what is going to happen is that I will provide you with a list of manuals that you can choose and pick from. You can speak to your immediate pastors and let them know the courses that you would like to attend and that we are able to help you. There are a few avenues of how we can help you:

• 1) We can help you during the Global Conference. You can come earlier or leave a little bit later and we will come together with others interested and we’ll help you answer questions and train you and build up your skill set.

• 2) We will also be able to help you in some of the camps we are running for our student groups, adults group and our Filipino contacts. You can join these camps and we will serve you, give you strength and walk alongside with you.

• 3) If there are enough people, another way is flying to different localities to help and train you.
  

[Water baptism in Hope Singapore]

So these are the goals we really hope to achieve as a church. Please pray with us, that within the next two years, 30 more churches will cross the 100 people mark and the three major churches to cross the 1000 people mark. God is with us, as we reach out to more people for Him.

More information will be released from Church Growth Department in the near future. Please write to Yin San, Hope Singapore for any inqury.

• Attention to HIM - Church Growth
• Email : church@hopesingapore.org.sg

Global Conference Singapore 19-21 August, 2009