Alban Consulting Stories
Appreciative Inquiry Helps Beachside ChurchRev. Peterson discusses two sides of an imaginary circle around the Neighborhood Congregational Church in Laguna Beach, California. (more...)
Alban Consultant Brings Program with ‘Bonus’ to Moravians
From a window of the old Victorian home that houses his office, the Rev. David Guthrie can see “God’s Acre,” a sprawling cemetery that includes the burial sites of some of “Old Salem’s” earliest Moravian founders, from 250 years ago. (more...)
Alban Consultant Helps Southern Church Rediscover Its Past
The Independent Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Alabama, was named in 1915, when a dynamic 37-year-old pastor and a group of followers began doubting some of the stricter elements of Calvanism and set out to create something new. (more...)
Board Retreat Helps Church Chart Path for Growth
During the past five years at All Saints -- a moderately sized Episcopal parish in Glen Rock, New Jersey – Michael Geiger, its senior warden, has seen substantial growth. (more...)
Called to Make a Difference
Growth is a problem many congregations would love to have. St. Peter’s United Church of Christ in Carmel, Indiana, thought the solution to their growth challenge was a capital campaign to fund a building expansion. They called on an Alban consultant to assist them. (more...)
Coaching Relationship Aids Judicatory Congregational Vitality Project
The Pennsylvania Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ was looking for a better way to foster congregational vitality within the churches of the conference. Having only one staff person to call on to work with the 180 churches in the conference was an enormous challenge. (more...)
Exploring Dialogue and Deliberation Together
Once embroiled in a “perfect storm” of internal discord, a large United Methodist church in Georgia is now defining new approaches to decision-making, its leaders and key members becoming students of active listening, prayerful dialogue, and facilitated deliberation. (more...)
Planning as a Conversation for Parish Facing Difficult Issues
The United Parish of Auburndale (UPA) is the product of a rare “federation”—a merger between two churches whose buildings stood just around the corner from each other. Since the union, about 20 years ago, UPA has enjoyed an energized congregation in Newton... (more...)