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Choose Your Route: Life Cycle and Stages The Ten Stages: Infancy For a graphical view of the ten stages, see my chart, The Life Cycle and Stages of Congregational Development).
Infancy is the three to five years following the Birth stage when Vision and Relationships are dominant. The expression of discipleship patterns that focus on worship, spiritual development, and the formation of warm and rich relationship patterns or a sense of true community in the congregation characterize infancy. During Infancy the passion of the congregation to fulfill its vision will increase as people discover their role in this exciting spiritual and strategic journey. Out of this passion people readily volunteer to do the work of the congregation because their congregation has the character of a movement they very much want to enhance and empower. Healthy patterns of worship, evangelism, discipleship, leadership development, and ministry and missions are established during this stage. The Infancy stage is discussed further in my article, The Infancy of a Congregation. Does this description fit your congregation? If you think the answer is "yes," click the Next button underneath It fits. If you're not sure, or you think the answer is probably "no," click the Next button underneath Look further or select another life cycle stage.
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