It's Your Turn to Lead a Growing, Transformative Church
A Community Approach to Church Growth
Extensive Asynchronous Training
Weekly Live Coaching
Constant Encouragement
The tools you need to move your church from stuck on a plateau to faithful, effective, and sustainable growth. Join hundreds of other pastors who aren't just talking church growth, they're growing their churches and breaking through the 100 and 200 barriers.
Dr. Bill Tenny-Brittian
A Community Approach to Church Growth
Asynchronous Training
The Growing Church Network Training Program
Six Modules
30 Training Videos
Extensive Workbooks
Live Coaching
Professional group coaching with Effective Church Network coaches and staff. 90 minute coaching sessions offered multiple times per week (and yes, you can attend more than one session per week).
Constant Encouragement
Access the Private Facebook Groups: The Next Level for Growing Churches and the Effective Church Coaching Group for 24/7 access to The Effective Church Coaching Staff and your professional peers.
Library & Seminar Access
The Effective Church Library offers an additional 100 church growth, marketing, and spiritual development training videos, plus supplemental materials as they're created. In addition, quarterly church growth MasterClasses and Seminars are regularly available.
The Tools You Need to Transform Your Church
Join hundreds of pastors across North America who have engaged the Growing Church Network to grow their churches.
Put an end to frustration with gimmicks that work ... for a month of two
Launch your church's growth without fueling church conflict
Experience the excitement of seeing more guests and the satisfaction of doing more baptism
Rediscover the love of doing ministry that's transforming people's lives
Turn visitors into returning guests, guests into disciples, and disciples into neighborhood missionaries
... without adding extra hours into your already too-busy schedule
Why Join the Growing Church Network?
Because "Knowing How" isn't the same as Contextualizing and Putting It Into Practice.
Bill Tenny-Brittian, here.
I started like many of us do, with a passion for ministry. I’d been a student pastor, then got my undergraduate in Biblical Theology and headed off to seminary. What I now realize was that, despite the “wins” I kept having, I was setting myself up to fail!
I'd been doing evangelism long before I started school and by the second year of undergraduate, I was offered a position to help launch a new church in Dothan, Alabama. That was super successful and my head swelled just a little bit more when I headed off to my first solo-pastorate.
... I grew that church.
... I doubled attendance in only three months.
... I thought I was pretty awesome.
I’ll bet you know exactly what happened: Three months later, it all came down around me. We lost ALL the growth. Every new member drifted away. In six months I'd grown and killed a church all on my own.
Which was the problem.
I did all that ALL ON MY OWN.
It would be years before my ignorance caught up with my arrogance and I realized I didn't really know it all.
... and I still don't.
But what time and study HAS taught me in the last four decades is to surround myself not only with the gospel but also with the coaches and mentors I need to be the best.
I’m not talking about writing a sermon and giving an invitation, I’m talking about growing the community you’ve been entrusted with – inside and outside the walls of your church.
The simple fact is, it can get lonely as the leader of your church, and you can easily be sidetracked by all the “busy work” to be done. Being the leader you always dreamed of being for your church begins precisely at the point you decide to work ON your church and not merely work IN your church.
The difference between me all those years ago and me today is that I'm living the vision – and it's a BIG vision (that involves helping thousands of church turn from decline to sustainable growth) – that I’ve been called to live.
But my success all started ...
When I decided I didn't know it all
When I got honest with myself that I couldn't do it all
When I sucked it up and made the decision to work with a mentor
That's why I created the Growing Church Network. It has the training materials I wish I'd had "back in the day," and has the coaching, accountability, and encouragement that every pastor and church leader needs.
Turn Knowing into Growing with The Effective Church Group and the Growing Church Network Today.
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Membership Packages
Basic Plan
$495
Includes:
Lifetime Access to the Growing Church Network Training Program
Lifetime Access to the Visionary Library
Lifetime Access to the Next Level For Growing Churches Private Facebook Group
Premium Plan
$99/Month
Includes:
Basic Plan Plus ...
Weekly Live Coaching
Weekly Accountability
Access to the Full Effective Church Library (100+ Videos)
Access to Quarterly MasterClasses
Subscription to Net Results Magazine
Lifetime Access to the Effective Church Coaching Private Facebook Group
Executive Plan
$995 + $99/Month
Includes:
Premium Plan Plus ...
Two 1-On-1 Private Coaching Sessions per Year*
Lifetime Access to All Effective Church Training Materials (100+ Videos)
Lifetime Access to All Growing Church Training Materials as They're Produced
Lifetime Access to all MasterClasses and Conferences
During active coaching subscription
Which Plan Is Right For Me?
The Network That Will Transform You
Church Growth Training
There really are no secrets to growing a church. The Network takes biblical principles and puts feet to time honored practices.
Leadership Training & Encouragement
You don't know what you don't know. The Network's leadership training is extensive, practical, and applicable in any setting.
Coaching and Support
You'll never have to face the questions, the dilemmas, and the struggles alone when you're a member of the Growing Church Network. Help and encouragement is only a couple clicks away.
Meet Your Coach
Bill Tenny-Brittian has been writing and preaching and teaching evangelism, church growth, and church leadership for over 40 years. As a pastor, he's planted churches from one coast to the other and helped turn churches from decline to growth nationally and internationally.
In 2004 he was invited to work with The Effective Church Group as a national church consultant, advising and training church leaders and congregations to become increasingly faithful, effective, and sustainable by transforming lives. Over the years, he's worked with hundreds of churches and thousands of church leaders, helping them grow their churches. Today, he's the president of The Effective Church Group – the oldest, most experienced independent church consulting firm in North America.
Bill believes that the local church is the best hope for transforming today's culture ... and that the pastor is the catalyst to it all. He's devoted his life to helping church pastors and church leaders activate their congregations to transform their communities.
What Pastors are Saying
In less than a year, we've nearly tripled our average worship attendance, more than doubled our baptism rate, and we're keeping 75% of every first time guest who visits. And that's in a town with less than 450 people!
Pastor Doug Shilts
Indiana
Two years into this, and the Bishop informed us that we're one of the only churches showing sustainable growth in the synod. And we broke the 100 barrier and heading to 200! What you've taught us is working, Bill!
Pastor Linda Anderson-Little
Texas
In one year, we went from 60 to 116 in average worship. We've done 30 baptisms during that time and have made more connections with the lost in our community than ever before. And it's all because we've put into practice what we've learned in the Network.
Pastor Leland Sapp
Alabama
One of the most amazing things I've done – I wish I'd done it twenty years ago.
Pastor Lorna Boden
Kansas
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