Fishing for the Future: How to Anchor and Grow Your Church Through the Youngest Generations

"Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some." (John 21:6) Are you are throwing your net on the wrong side of the boat? Let's face it. Most churches are struggling. Congregation sizes are declining while the church attenders are getting older. Pastors worry about their next generation of leaders as youth are increasingly leaving church. Fishing for the Future will give you the strategies you need to overcome each of these issues. This book is is rooted in scripture with little-known Biblical strategies for today's church. You will learn how leaders from modern American churches turned around their churches, inspiring ideas for you to establish the approaches best for your own church. Learn how Jesus' strategies-and those of top leaders, athletes, and pastors-can help you grow your church, impact your community, and develop your future leaders. You will learn the key decision that allowed Roger Bannister to become the first runner to break the four-minute mile. Discover how pole vaulting world champion Brian Sternberg become a paraplegic and a world renown Christian speaker. What Chinese general's 2,500-year-old tactic can make your church a community hero? You will discover how Jesus used social ministry to grow His Kingdom, and how you can do the same through your youth team. Every strategy in this book will help you grow your church. But to secure it's future you need to reach children, the most spiritually open, yet under-reached population in the world. Most churches fail to reach new children for Christ. This book will show you how to catch and secure them for tomorrow. Get your net out. It's time to fish! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rev. Gary Hays is the founder and President of thinkSMALL Global Ministries, serving 3,000 churches in 20 nations, resulting in 1.3 million new believers for Christ. A former Air Force veteran and business leader, he now teaches pastors Jesus' lesser-known strategies to grow their church and inspires audiences worldwide as an international speaker.