Compassion By Design

It started out one day with a special dessert…frozen twinkies on a platter.  I knew he was crazy then.  But I learned a few important things too– like the fact that as a believer in Christ, I need to earn the right to be heard.  That realization has lead me to develop a needs assessment process for new churches and for restart churches.  A process of listening followed by serving.  You can learn more about it my my latest newsletter posted at http://www.compassionbydesign.org/newsletter.html

The new tools for needs assessment are available.  You can download two church planter exploration tools at compassionbydesign.org.  These tools allow church planters to go beyond demographics in their engagement with new communities.  In this team based approach, they can build insight and relationships.  The tools should be used as early in the process as possible.