CONTACT:  Don Morris – 800.257.0515 or offices@usmb.org
The following are offered on the USMB website:  https://usmb.org/church-health/

• Lead Labs – Short, one to two-hour leadership training seminars on church growth for Church Leadership Teams. Does your team need training in a particular issue?
  COST: $1,000
• Lead Consults – Developing ministry vision and direction. Board retreats, ministry team workshops, evaluations, and advice.
  COST: $1,500
• CHAT (Church Health Assessment Tool)
  A helpful tool to assess the health of your church.  A representative group of the church is surveyed and then led through results by our leaders.
  COST: $500 – Assessment
  $2,000 – Consultation
• Lead Coaching – Life and ministry coaching for pastors and church leaders. USMB encourages all churches to see that their pastors experience life coaching.
  https://usmb.org/lead-coaching/
  CONTACT: Ed Boschman – 661.549.6021
  COST: $150/month

• Building Church Leaders is a library of the 500+ practical training tools from Christianity Today. Their forte is to train teams, develop leaders, encourage personal pastoral growth, and equip the church.
  bclstore.com
  COST: membership is $150/year with an additional charge for each downloadable tool used.
• Church University – Curriculum provides training for church boards – primary function of a board, recruiting & deploying board members, nuts & bolts of a good board meeting, growing board relationships, board member responsibilities, for lead pastors only.
  churchuniversity.com
  COST: Modules $1497
• Transforming the Church – a course and lecture resource for church leaders to pick an area of for study and learning. Study tracks on Congregational Transformation with George Bullard and Church leadership qualify for a grant application.
  transformingthechurch.org
  COST: Fees vary by course – mostly $99/course

• Latitude Ministries – guides the church leadership through the assessment insights from the NCD to discern helpful steps that the church can take toward health given the culture of the church and the local community. Justin Manzey leads Latitude Ministries and comes highly recommended by Pacific District Conference District Minister Jordan Ringhofer.
  latitudeministries.com
  CONTACT: 604.504.1809
  COST: $1,000 – 3,500
• Vision Casting and Development – Brian Ross is a highly recommended resource person coming from our MB seminary in Fresno. He’s gifted at helping our pastors and churches as they strategize and plan for their future. Brian’s ministry at North Fresno Church was greatly appreciated by the congregation. He ministered in the Midwest at a leadership event.  “Brian challenged us to ‘think young’.”  —Mac Wahl (former Moderator of Fairview MB Church in Oklahoma).
  CONTACT: 559.453.2321 brian.ross@fresno.edu
  COST: $1,500
• Church Answers – (Thom Rainer) Grow Your Church, Revitalize Your Church, Lead More Effectively.  Rainer’s specialty area is on community assessment and outreach. If that is your primary need, this may be a good option.
  churchanswers.com
  COST: $900  – depending on program choices
• Healthy Growing Churches – Church consultation with assessment and a weekend visit with church leadership
  healthygrowingchurches.com
  COST: $7,500+expenses
  Individual Coaching for Pastors and Church Planters
  COST: $3,200/year @ 2 years
• The Unstuck Group – Church consulting and Leadership coaching with resources to go along with these areas of expertise.
  theunstuckgroup.com
  COST: Fee is according to church needs, equals a part-time staff position salary
• Rural Home Missionary Association – Plants and strengthens churches in small towns through pastors’ conferences, seminars, printed media, and website resources.
  rhma.org
  COST: No fee

• Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive, Thom S. Rainer
  Dr. Thom Rainer has helped churches grow and reverse the trends of decline by studying churches that have died. This book walks with you through the radical paths necessary to keep your church alive for the advancement of Christ’s Kingdom.
• Budgeting for a Healthy Church: Aligning Finances with Biblical Priorities for Ministry, Jamie Dunlop
  This book takes readers past the churches fixation on growth and numbers, to show church leaders how to transition to a simpler scripture-based, relationship-focused, model of ministry.
• Comeback Churches, Ed Stetzer and Mike Dodson
  Missiologist Ed Stetzer, and Pastor Mike Dodson report on how you can join more than 300 formerly declining congregations in doing what it takes to revitalize a weakened body of believers.
• The Great Opportunity: The American Church in 2050, Pine Foundation
  A look into the next 30 years of the American church, and the opportunity it has to bring tens of millions of young people to Christ. (PDF download)
• The Unstuck Church, Tony Morgan
  Specific and strategic steps church leaders can take to help the church get “unstuck” and move forward again to carry out the mission.
• When Not to Borrow: Unconventional Financial Wisdom to Set Your Church Free, Ray Bowman with Eddy Hall
  Guidance on the when’s, how’s and whys of healthy church financing. Ray Bowman has seen the church at its best and worst, and wishes to see your church become all that God has in mind for it.