Hope for those in exile: an attempt to bring new life to the Aalen-Schnaitheim United Methodist charge of southern Germany through visioning, goal-setting, and restructuring

Wolfgang Albert Bay

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Hope for those in exile: an attempt to bring new life to the Aalen-Schnaitheim United Methodist charge of southern Germany through visioning, goal-setting, and restructuring

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Wolfgang Albert Bay. Hope for Those In Exile: an Attempt to Bring New Life to the Aalen-schnaitheim United Methodist Charge of Southern Germany Through Visioning, Goal-setting, and Restructuring. Wesley Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/0c5bafa5-8023-4b6b-826f-e6c0d2b2b654.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

W. A. Bay. Hope for those in exile: an attempt to bring new life to the Aalen-Schnaitheim United Methodist charge of southern Germany through visioning, goal-setting, and restructuring. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/0c5bafa5-8023-4b6b-826f-e6c0d2b2b654

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Wolfgang Albert Bay. Hope for Those In Exile: an Attempt to Bring New Life to the Aalen-Schnaitheim United Methodist Charge of Southern Germany Through Visioning, Goal-Setting, and Restructuring. Wesley Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/0c5bafa5-8023-4b6b-826f-e6c0d2b2b654.

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Wolfgang Albert Bay

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Aalen-Schnaitheim United Methodist Charge (Southern Germany)

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Abstract

The author led the churches of the Aalen-Schnaitheim United Methodist Charge in southern Germany through a process of visioning, goal setting, and restructuring of leadership in an attempt to move the churches from a survival mentality to a growth mentality. Contemporary German and American authors in church growth were critiqued for their theological integrity and applied to the charge's context. The congregations were able to show increased vitality as measured by church attendance, offerings, leadership, and program. Such vitality is in marked contrast to the contemporary state of most congregations in the German Central Conference of the United Methodist Church.

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