How to minister effectively in different sized churches
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
In the booklet Sizing Up a Congregation For New Member Ministry,1 Arlin Rothauge sets forth four basic congregational sizes. Here is a brief description of each of each with an understanding of what members expect of clergy in each size.
Family Church (less than 50 members)
Family Church functions like a family with appropriate parental figures - patriarchs and matriarchs - who control the church's leadership needs. What Family Churches want from clergy is pastoral care, period. For clergy to assume that they are also the chief executive officer and the resident religious authority is to make a serious blunder.
A history of the ministry of Christians in the Media and Annandale Community Church leading up to the last supper in the Annandale Community Church building before our current building project.
A big team turned out on Saturday August 16 to work on moving out of the church building. Most emotional for the kids church leaders was the dragons journey to Reverse Garbage.
Monday update: the dragon has been sold at Reverse Garbage and will have another life somewhere else.
Village Church 
In the booklet Sizing Up a Congregation For New Member Ministry,1 Arlin Rothauge sets forth four basic congregational sizes. Here is a brief description of each of each with an understanding of what members expect of clergy in each size. 
We minister in Sydney's most 'No religion' suburb.