Jonathan Smith, director of church health and growth and associate director of the Center for Church Health at Baptist General Convention of Texas, recently launched the PAVE Podcast with an episode on “The Power of Story in Church Revitalization.”
The new podcast is a BGCT church revitalization strategy designed to help pastors customize revitalization for their context by equipping them with resources and placing them in cohorts to be trained by a coach and encouraged within a community of pastors.
Church health, growth and revitalization
Born out of a desire to see Texas Baptists “be the place to go for church health, growth and revitalization,” Smith said the ministry was in need of a medium to communicate the biblical imperatives and practical ideas of PAVE “to people who otherwise would not have a venue in which to hear them.”
“We want pastors to be encouraged and inspired to know that church revitalization by the power of the Holy Spirit really is possible. God breathes life back into struggling churches, so we want them to find and hear that it is real. It is possible,” Smith noted. “[God] is revitalizing churches.”
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Jessica King and originally published by the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
