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MyCom Church Growth Series: Is your church ready for growth?

This is the first episode in a podcast series that focuses on assessing whether your church is ready to grow.

While all churches should want to grow, change is difficult. We need to first ask if we're ready to change and whether the church is healthy enough to grow.

Dr. Kim Pope-Seiberling is part of a husband-wife duo working to help the church embody 1 > 99 at brokensheep.com.  She has been a pastor of growing churches in urban, suburban and rural settings for over 17 years helping turn around churches after years of decline.

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