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Choose Your Route: Life Cycle and Stages

The Ten Stages: Retirement

For a graphical view of the ten stages, see my chart, The Life Cycle and Stages of Congregational Development).

Birth Infancy Childhood Adolescence Adulthood
Maturity Empty Nest Retirement Old Age Death

If a congregation does not redevelop during Empty Nest it will move on to the Retirement stage.

Retirement is when Vision and Relationships are no longer dominant or fully developed.

Management is driving the direction of the congregation.

Programs are once again dominant as congregations seek to revitalize their programs, ministries and activities.

The Retirement stage is discussed further in my article, The Retirement of a Congregation.

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