Welcome to Made for Mondays
Today we continue talking about different trends in black churches for the next 5-10 years.
Here are a list of trends
1 - Women in Leadership -
2 - Black and **other races** churches will grow. Multi Racial churches driven by white preachers will not -
3 - Increase in conversions
4 - Giving will be down 20-30%
5 - Pastors Leaving churches completely.
6 - Less people going into ministry long term
7 - Digital ministry is another “church”
8-VR/AR/AI web
9 - Boomer and Millennials will drive churches
10 - Need for spaces to teach secular theories with scripture (sexuality/CRT etc)
So what?
If these are trends, what can we do? Here are four suggestions:
1 - Look for Giving from Community Businesses
2- Be mindful of what you ingest
3 – Diversify your Skillset for Co-vocational and bi-vocational ministry
4 - Collaborative ministry without Denominational guidelines
See you Next Monday!
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