By Larry Barker, VP of Church Strategy and Training

Healthy Church Solutions desires to know you, love you, and pray for you. We are here for you, and we have a deep passion to help and encourage you any way we can through consultation, coaching, or content. We are not only focused on starting new churches but strengthening existing churches. This is why we do what we do by providing pastors, leaders, and churches with multiple opportunities for spiritual growth and health. If we desire churches to be healthy, then we must ensure a platform for promoting individual growth. Remember, the speed of the team is usually determined by the speed of the leader, a healthy leader.

BMA Global’s second value statement states, “The entire context of the New Testament is one of multiplication. All healthy believers, leaders, and churches will multiply. The multiplication of disciples is the most important factor in the formula for multiplication.” We are blessed to be watching the multiplication of disciples, leaders, and churches. Mac Lake refers to discipleship as “intimacy with Jesus,” and leadership as “influence for Jesus.” Discipleship focuses on character, and the journey of leadership development is being carried out by adding competencies and skill sets to the character building seen through discipleship.

There are several areas of focus we offer for spiritual growth to occur and place you on a path for spiritual health and vitality. The goal is not to survive, even though there will be those seasons, but rather to thrive and flourish. There are some axioms we live by and try to promote regularly, believing in the importance of soul-care which necessitates silence, solitude, stillness, and sabbath. Request our prayer retreat materials, or better yet, schedule to host a prayer retreat or attend one soon. The axioms are that our doing for Jesus must flow out of our being with Jesus; you cannot give what you do not possess, and silence is God’s first language.

Healthy Church Solutions supports leaders by challenging them in three areas. 1) Self-Discipline: This is intimacy with Christ by learning how to abide in him more and more. There is no substitute for your personal walk with Christ, and no one can walk it for you. 2) Self-Discovery: You have to know yourself and how God hard-wired you in order to better lead yourself. This describes your inclinations, gifts, and passions. 3) Self-Development: This is your ability which encompasses the sum of your learned experiences, both from formal education as well as life experiences.

Healthy Church Solutions has multiple resources including time demands/margin, how to handle difficult people/conflict, senior pastor transition, and developing systems that will better enable you to sustain the relational capital that you have worked so hard to build. You will only expand to the capacity and effectiveness of your systems. Systems have been defined by Gary Rohrmayer as “reproducible and interconnected processes by which the organization actualizes its values and achieves its mission.” This is how you will fulfill the Great Commission in your unique context, with your unique congregation, following God’s unique agenda for you.

Healthy Church Solutions desires to be an encouragement and support to you and your church by providing system training and materials for prayer, discipleship, assimilation, outreach, pastoral care, ministry placement, finances, and leadership development. We are committed to doing all we can to help churches survive and thrive. We pray that the resources we have might be just the right prescription for many struggling churches. The time pressures are real and that is why we provide these for you and coach you through how to utilize them best in your context under your leadership.

Healthy Church Solutions realizes the reality that many leaders have become exhausted, discouraged, and feel isolated and alone wondering who they can turn to. We desire to be a support to you when and where you need that helping hand. If you are wondering “Where do I go from here?” maybe we can help you navigate those waters. We all need hope, direction, and fresh vision for our ministry at different times. We try to provide these through our resources but also through bi-monthly pastor zooms and through www.thehealthychurchpodcast.com

Healthy, growing churches can transform communities. We believe that is God’s desire. Where Christ is preached and lives are transformed, communities, regions and eventually even entire nations can be impacted for good. Community transformation will occur as healthy, growing churches are developed. We are here for you and desire to support you with a bible-based discovery process, led by the Holy Spirit, driven by the pastor, supported by a team within your church, mentored by other pastors, and coached through Healthy Church Solutions!