Coaching strategies for church growth culturally and historically relevant for Hispanic Methodists

Annual Goal: $36,700.00

Year to Date Gifts: $158.25

This project will inform pastors and lay leaders on the "how to" for church growth. It also will help them design strategies and plans that might help them mobilize their local churches toward the goal of making disciples for Christ within the Methodist Church. By means of direct coaching and follow ups. The pastors will have the opportunity to get orientation for specific needs arising in their pastoral settings. The project implies a sequence of meetings to keep widening the vision and perspective for growth, that may last up to two or three years. Seminars and workshops will be offered quarterly or every six months with the objective of giving a close follow up to the growth process. Seminars and workshops will be directed mainly to districts of clusters of churches while personal coaching shall be maintained.

Pastors and lay leaders of the Methodist church of Mexico, and Hispanic-Latino United Methodist Church, is thinking and acting in terms of real possibilities for growth, for the awakening of the movement and the salvation of the people.

Pastors and lay leaders are excited about their ministries. Local churches growing in attendance and membership. New church planting projects being planned and launched. The Methodist Church of Mexico and The United Methodist Church revitalized and awakened.