The Advent Christian General Conference Strategic Plan

Over the past few weeks, Advent Christian Voices has featured articles highlighting the ACGC Strategic Plan. We feature those articles once again in the space below, but in addition we are now providing the complete ACGC Strategic Plan for 2018-2020. You can view the plan on your web browser or download it in PDF format by clicking the link below:

Click Here to View the ACGC Strategic Plan

          Leadership Development:
 Where We’ve Been, Where We Must Go
                     by Matt Larkin
"1987. This was the year campus operations ceased at Berkshire Christian College. At that time, Berkshire was the primary means through which pastors were trained and developed within the Advent Christian..."
 

          Reversing Our Church Health Crisis
                        by Justin Nash
"Eighty-five to ninety percent of churches in North America are either declining, plateaued or growing at a rate slower than the community in which they are located. Ten percent of the churches in North America are at imminent risk of closing..."

               
               International Missions:
   A Greater Focus on Unreached Peoples
                       by Jeff Walsh
"The united missionary impulse of the Advent Christian Church in North America is in danger of flickering out. To be sure, some local Advent Christian churches and individuals exhibit a strong passion..."

Advent Christians Must Plant Churches-
Here's What We're Doing About It
               by Steve Lawson
"As we look at the figures on churches in America across denominational lines, we see most groups are losing ground.  We are currently averaging more than three churches per year closing in the Advent Christian..."