UMNS Daily Digest - August 18, 2010 (Small groups, church growth, church starts, investing summit)

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                         Wednesday, August 18, 2010
               [5]Church growth often requires starting small
              [6]Discipleship board plans to start 650 churches
                    [7]Speaker named for investing summit


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   "One of the challenges is that you need to be continually 
listening to
   people for ideas on new groups to form. But you also need to give 
them
  permission to end some groups. There's a birthing and dying cycle." 
--The
Rev. Don Dexheimer of Roscoe (Ill.) United Methodist Church on the 
evolution
                              of small groups.

Church growth often requires starting small

   ROSCOE, Ill. (UMNS) â Several recent studies support the idea that 
growing
   congregations tend to offer more small groups than churches that 
are losing
   members. Roscoe United Methodist Church started forming small 
groups more
   intentionally about a decade ago, said the Rev. Don Dexheimer, the 
church's
   outreach coordinator. Since then, the church has doubled its 
membership to
   1,100 people. "I can't tell you that all the growth has come 
because of
   small groups," he said. "I can tell you that the small groups have 
been a
   significant factor."

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Discipleship board plans to start 650 churches

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) â The United Methodist Board of 
Discipleship has set
   a  goal  to  start 650 churches in the U.S. in partnership with 
annual
   (regional) conferences by the end of 2012. The agency plans to 
train 1,000
   new church planters to reach its goal. The agencyâs board of 
directors,
   meeting Aug. 4-7, recognized the planting of 125 churches this 
year. More
   information about starting United Methodist congregations is 
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Speaker named for investing summit

   KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UMNS) â Timothy Smith, senior vice president of 
Walden
   Asset Management, has been named the keynote speaker for the 2010 
Socially
   Responsible Investing Summit. The gathering is scheduled Oct. 
18-19 at St.
   Paul  School  of  Theology. Smith has been working to promote 
socially
   responsible investing for more than 40 years. In 2008, he was 
elected to the
   board of directors of the United Methodist Board of Pension and 
Health
   Benefits.

   The summit aims to offer an exchange of ideas about The United 
Methodist
   Churchâs evolving understanding of socially responsible investing 
practices.
   Registration for the summit, which costs $50, has been extended to 
Aug. 31.
   Registration is available [16]here.
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