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Evangelism & Church Growth Team

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

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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Each year the ABSC collects data from Arkansas Baptist churches using the Annual Church Profile (ACP). According to the 2009 ACP report 1,087 of the 1, 490 reporting churches recorded at least one baptism, with a total of 12,450 baptisms statewide. A list of churches that led in baptisms has been compiled from the 2009 ACP report. This list was based on average Sunday School attendance and is categorized by children, youth and overall baptisms.

Discipleship Any Church Can Do

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?

How To Grow Your Sunday School Class

sunday school 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.

Contact Us

Arkansas Baptist State Convention
800.838.2272 (toll free in AR) or
501.376.4791