Walter Castro talks about the Volunteer Lay Pastors Program in this Church Planters Bootcamp 2021 presentation. He says that the Volunteer Lay Pastors Program is a new trend that is moving fast across the North American Division and how much the laity is needed for churches to be planted, grow, and multiply.

Walter Castro is the Volunteer Lay Pastors Director for the Florida Conference of SDA

In this video, Dustin Serns presents the process of planting the LifeBridge Church during the 2020 pandemic. Serns talks about following the PLANT acronym as he started his church: P - Pray and recruit. L - Layout a vision. A - Activate ministry. N - Navigate worship. T - Train and send. Today the LifeBridge Church is a thriving community of believers that reaches the unchurched, and the young families and young professionals in University Place, Washington. Watch the full story here.

Dustin Serns is the Senior Pastor of LifeBridge Church in Washington

• Read about the moving of the Holy Spirit in this Adventist church during and after the pandemic.

• Their children’s ministries department grew from 5 to 70 children.

• Seven specific areas made such growth possible.

A lot of people think that declining churches don't want to grow. But that certainly isn't the case. They want to grow, but they need to learn how which can become overwhelming. There is almost an acceptance that this is their fate. They are dying and don't know what to do about it. In this presentation, Bill McClendon invites you to consider two questions: "Why do church plants grow faster than existing churches?" And "Why do existing churches reach a point and stop growing?"  Would you like to learn more? Click on the link below to watch the full video.

Bill McClendon is Bill McClendon is the Vice President for Administration and Evangelism Director of the North Pacific Union.

Back in the day, nobody talked about church revitalization. Still, at some point in ministry, many pastors have been part of a church that was either plateauing or declining and have participated in its turnaround. In this video from the Church Revitalization Bootcamp, Jose Cortes Jr. tells his personal story of revitalizing his first church as he began his ministry and how it grew from 30 to 120 in attendance. Watch the video here.

Jose Cortes Jr. is  theAssociate Director of the North American Division Ministerial Association. He leads in the areas of Evangelism, Church Planting, Global Mission, Church Growth, and Mission to the Cities for the Adventist Church in North America.

In this video, Heather Crews presents about seven things her parents did to keep her in the church. As a double PK, from the earliest she can remember, her parents would talk about Jesus, but these seven specific actions they took helped keep her in the faith. Would you like to know more? Watch the video here.

Heather Crews is the Potomac Conference Associate for Pastoral Ministries and the North American Division Associate Director for Women Clergy

Recent statistics on churches in America show that four thousand churches close every year, and only one thousand are planted. Every year, thousands of pastors leave the ministry discouraged, burnt out, and frustrated, and countless church members no longer attend church. In this video from the Church Revitalization Bootcamp, Paulo Macena talks about the Missing Power and how the church in the book of Acts grew from a handful of scared disciples to thousands of followers. Watch the full video here.

Paulo Macena is the North American Division Leadership Director