Congregational Development and New Faith Communities

Dr. A. D. Washington and Dr. Felix Burrows

This Doctor of Ministry Program is designed to create contagious excitement for congregations by tailoring their ministries based on some of the leading congregations throughout the country. Our goal is to equip and provide transformative tools for empowerment, development and redevelopment of churches. We will concentrate on healthy and vital church growth while looking at a variety of administrative models and systems that bring measurable results. We will also concentrate on effective ways to build collaborative relationships with ecumenical religious, social and political systems within the community using community organizing principals. Over a two- year period, we will visit leading men and women ministry leaders in their contexts and ascertain key methodologies for ministry success in the 21 Century. Ministry participants will be equipped with hands-on models of ministry that radically change the way ministry is practiced today.

Key components of this experience will include radical hospitality, winsome worship, membership growth, spiritual formation, marketing, and risk-taking based on the practices of women and men who do it best. This program promises to prepare the participant to be a more effective servant leader for the 21st Century church.