Congregational Growth Requires Enough Staff
March 1, 2000
Some congregations do not grow because they are not staffed for growth. As a rule of thumb, if you desire to staff for growth, you need one full-time program person on your staff for every one hundred active members (not including such staff as custodians or secretaries). Active members refers to how many are attending worship in an average week. You are staffing for maintenance if you are just slightly under that figure. You are staffed for decline if you are seriously under that figure.
From Making Your Church More Inviting, by Roy Oswald, Alban Institute, 1992. May be ordered from the Alban Institute.
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Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.
