Developing Healthy Churches

Developing Healthy Churches is an utterly practical and realistic guide for any leader seeking to revitalize and grow their church.

The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Healthy Churches’ Handbook, this new volume will help you implement tried and tested approaches for healthy church growth in your parish.

Realistic and encouraging, disarmingly honest and grounded in the reality of parish life, it will help you build up your church in several key areas:

• nurturing spirituality
• re-thinking pastoral care
• refreshing the home group
• engaging in mission
• expressing Christian values

Whether your church is large or small, well-resourced or struggling, here is an essential resource for revitalizing your life and mission. A study guide is also included, making this ideal as a parish development course.

Robert Warren was Team Rector of one of the largest and fastest growing churches in England, St Thomas Crookes and was the Church of England's National Officer for Evangelism. In 1998, he joined Springboard, the Initiative for Evangelism of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. He is the author of a number of key books and co-author of the Emmaus: the way of faith programme.