More than 2,438 United Methodist clergy and laity have received the prestigious Harry Denman Evangelism Award presented in recognition of personal evangelism and ministry. The Foundation for Evangelism is pleased to announce the release of the 2012 Harry Denman Evangelism Award Nomination Packet for Annual Conferences. The Nomination forms for Clergy, Lay, the newly established Youth awards and supporting information is available on our Recognition page or by calling (800)737-8333.
Photo at right: Frances Snell, 2010 Alabama-West Florida Laity Recipient
By Daniel Gómez
Pastor de Las Naciones and Trustee of The Foundation for Evangelism
This past July members of our combined youth group attended YOUTH 2011 in Sacramento, CA. Our church is University United Methodist Church in Las Vegas, NV and we are also known as a “church of congregations”. We have the original (English speaking) congregation, First Filipino UMF, Las Naciones UMF (Spanish speaking) and Shalom Swahili – an African congregation (Swahili, French & English). One church which consists of various congregations.
Dr. Ed Robb, founding pastor of The Woodlands United Methodist Church (UMC) at The Woodlands, Texas, has been named the 2011 Distinguished Evangelist of The United Methodist Church by The Foundation for Evangelism. Hailed as a leader with great vision, faith, and humility, Robb has pastored The Woodlands UMC since its beginning in 1978, starting with 30members. Since then, it has become one of the fastest-growing churches in United Methodism, with present membership exceeding 8,400 and an average worship attendance of 4,200.
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The Foundation for Evangelism has surveyed the attendance patterns of thousands of UMC congregations and discovered that hundreds of churches have experienced attendance growth of 20% or more in five years! Let’s celebrate these results together!
We have interviewed the pastors of some of these churches about their ministry of evangelism to learn what they attribute such growth to. We will regularly post insights from pastors of these churches along with contact information. Perhaps this resource will help you find an idea to start increasing worship attendance at your church.
Follow this series of interviews with pastors of churches whose attendance has grown 20% or more in 5 years. We hope this series will be a resource of ideas to help your church.
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