Mission Learning Center

The Wayne Barriers and J.C. Choates are heading up a Missions Retreat in Hamilton, Alabama, May 10 - 12, 2007. Speakers will include Glover Shipp, Gordon Hogan, John Reese, Loy Mitchell, Ken Wilkey, Colin McKee, and others who have served in foreign fields. It will be held at the Maywood Christian Camp in Hamilton.

It is my privilege to discuss at the retreat the study done in 2006 regarding the "Decline of the Membership of the Church of Christ." Our membership loss from 2003 to 2006 averaged 10 members per day! I pray that disturbs you as it does me.

We will talk about what some 60 of our members wrote me in about 708 inputs regarding the "Reasons for the Decline," "Solutions to the Decline," and "Implementing Solutions to the Decline." As you can imagine, one main cause of our decline is simply that 'WE ARE NOT EVANGELIZING AS WE SHOULD!'

You may get information regarding the Missions Retreat from Wayne Barrier ( wbarrier@hiwaay.net ) or J.C.Choate ( choate@worldevangelism.org ). This represents the first retreat of this nature. Pray that it is a successful effort for the glory of God.  Don Petty

PS Please see the journal entry just before this one to see how you may get your study of the decline in three separate papers. DP

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