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A Church Offers Training in Faith and Finance
One of the common yet least talked about issues in church's today is financial literacy. We often assume how people earn, save, and spend is their business and their business alone; however, people in the pews - across all incomes - may not actually know HOW to...
10 Facts About the Millions of People Who Have Left the Church
Friend of Project Thrive and religious data scientist Dr. Ryan Burge recently co-wrote The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back? with Jim Davis and Michael Graham. In this article on Truth Over Tribe, they...
Southern Baptist Churches Are More Conservative Than Ever
The Southern Baptist Convention has been in the news quite a bit recently due to decisions made at this year's annual convention meeting. Many of the decisions signal the evolving beliefs of America's largest Protestant denomination. Friend of the program Dr. Ryan...
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It’s a Political Year – How will your church respond?
In our final year of Project Thrive 1.0, we find ourselves in an interesting - if not a bit precarious - situation. The political divide in our country has led to many social divisions among friends, families, and churches. We will be offering additional resources in...
Loving through failure
Churches go through life cycles. They grow; they decline. They are started, and they close. Sometimes, following the life of the church is similar to following your favorite sports team where we are asked to support it even when it disappoints us. In this article in...
Could ‘hybrid shared ministry’ help struggling congregations survive?
One of the Seven Thriving Traits we articulate at Project Thrive is Collaboration. We often see collaboration as two parties engaging in a shared work or ministry. But sometimes, collaboration is a helping hand from one source with greater resources to another with...