Oct 29, 2025 · Last year, I visited a Methodist church in Colebrook, New Hampshire, a small town of about 2,000 people. On a typical Sunday, around 20 people attended the service at the Trinity United …

Aug 10, 2021 · While the demise of small, rural churches sometimes seems irreversible as United Methodist faithful grow older, strategies are out there to revitalize these congregations by focusing on …

Oct 23, 2020 · Aging congregations involved in renewal have a number of unique challenges. Here are 7 steps to help in the process.

Sep 23, 2025 · On a good day, the Batavia United Methodist Church in Batavia, Iowa, holds a congregation of 17 people. The church used to be a significant part of the community in the rural …

Apr 11, 2023 · In 2020, older church members at Vineyard United Methodist Church felt discarded when their church was restarted. Mark Hallock, author of “Replant Roadmap” encourages pastors to gain …

Over the years, the windows and church stood the test of time. The Hardin United Methodist Church survived fire, two major floods and a tornado during its 125 years of providing a place of worship for …

It will assess the role of the small membership church, explore several different denominational approaches to the issue of church survival, provide a study guide, and analyze a process that I am …

May 24, 2022 · We often think of large churches as strong and small churches as weak. But Lovett H. Weems Jr. shares a powerful example of how size does not always bring resilience in the face of …

Some annual conferences wonder if they should put all their energy into starting new churches instead of revitalizing existing churches. With an estimated seventy percent of churches in the United States …

Sep 25, 2017 · Founded in a log cabin in 1835, the little congregation worked for decades to keep the doors open—merging with a nearby struggling Methodist church in 1947, becoming a …