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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 

Guide Your Congregation Into A Thriving Church: One Day Super Seminar Featuring Tom Bandy, April 26, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Gallatin First UMC

Tom Bandy presents from the popular church transformation trilogy Kicking Habits, Coming Clean, and Facing Reality. He helps you understand the changing spiritual yearning of the public, and explains the basic elements of a thriving church. His systems approach to church transformation contrasts the declining church system that enrolls, informs, nominates, supervises and keeps people . . . to the thriving church system that changes, gifts, calls, equips, and sends disciples in mission. Finally, he describes the five states of transition experienced by congregations moving from one system to the other, and coaches leaders to address the stresses involved in each stage.

Who is Tom Bandy?
Tom is President of Easum, Bandy & Associates. Congregational and denominal leaders regard Tom as one of the leading thinkers and writers today. His personal mission is to help individuals and congregations experience the transforming power of God, and become motivated and equipped to walk daily with Jesus into mission.

Tom has been a pastor for over 25 years, in three denominations. He has served urban, suburban, rural, and remote contexts, both in church planting and church transformation roles, in the United States and Candada. Furthermore Tom and his group have experience in helping over 1000 churches, find new life and vitality, across many denomations.

One Saturday can guide your church into a “THRIVING Church.”

The one-day event, April 26, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., will be held at Gallatin First United Methodist Church, 149 West Main Street, Gallatin, TN 37066. The $25 Registration Fee includes lunch. Registration is Limited—so register Early.

Have questions:
E-mail info@fumcgallatin.org
Phone: 615-452-1922