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Tim Hawks: Giving Power to the People Grows the Church

When a pastor’s devastating moral lapse nearly closed Hill Country Bible Church, the congregation’s elders kept the church afloat – and now, nearly 30 years later, thousands of people are glad they did. Rebuilding trust was the first job the 20-something year old pastor Tim Hawks did – and the congregation responded, growing from 180 [...]

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Mike Slaughter: The Secrets of Our Success

Wonder how Mike Slaughter’s 2-room country church grew to a 5,000+ member congregation? Mike says the success at Ginghamsburg Church it’s a combination of vision, outreach, and a commitment to stay in the same position for more than 30 years. It’s an unlikely story, that a 27-year-old Methodist pastor could take a tiny country church, [...]

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