Church Tool Box

Church Toolbox is a free resource for the wider Church sponsored by the Commission on Congregational Development of the Diocese of Virginia. Please feel free to use any of these articles for discussion at vestry meetings or for reprinting in church newsletters. Please do credit this site and the author. 

Evangelism & Outreach

• Keys to Reaching Secular People
• Tips and Tricks for Doing Alpha
• Five-Week Evangelism Course
• Via Media: Evangelism for the Episcopal Church
• Ideas for Church Growth
• Hospitality Checklist

Getting Your Message Across

• The Basics: First Impressions
• Keeping People Who Visit
• Improve Signage in and Around Your Church

Making it Work

• Natural Church Development
• Healthy Vestries, Healthy Congregations
• The 21st Century Church
• Managing Size and Style Transitions
• Why Use a Consultant?
• Deciding What to Do: Applying Systems Theory
• Percept's Revision: A Direction-Setting Process
• Percept Demographic Data
• Anglican Polity

Equipping Disciples

• Starting Youth Programs Within the Church
• About Vestries
• The Spiritual Life of the Vestry
• Keys to Healthy Communication
• A Healthy Vestry
• Effective Church Meetings
• "High" and "Low" Church
• A Virginia Vestry's Compendium of Canon Law