Lattice

Connecting Leaders and Resources

Presbyterianism is leadership defined. Lattice is the place of connected leaders sharing resources for leadership and ministry development.

Church Health

  • 2024 Statistics Report

    Calculation of Congregation Living Costs

    Health Analysis for 2023 Statistics (including how to understand the Health Score calculation)

    Healthy Church Survey

  • This outline includes a number of questions to help churches to formulate a ministry plan for revitalisation. (Google Form) 

  • Click here for a list of Resources for Eldership.

  • Join us for prayer for our church, the world-wide church and the world.

    Kingdom Come Online Prayer Meetings are held 4 times a year at 8am on a Saturday morning. Zoom links are sent out closer to the date via the PCV Email Network.

    Dates for our Kingdom Come Online Prayer meetings in 2025 are:

    • Saturday 29 March

    • Saturday 14 June

    • Saturday 6 September

    • Saturday 29 November

Training Programs

  • The Ministry Development Officer conducts Revitalisation Training weekends including a presentation titled ‘Towards A Healthier Church’ in which the following topics are covered:

    1. What is the Church?

    2. What is Church Revitalisation?

    3. Why Church Revitalisation?

    4. Symptoms of Declining Churches

    5. The Church at Ephesus - a Case Study

    6. Leadership

    7. WELL [Worship, Evangelism, Loving, Learning]

    8. Igniting the Fire - the Holy Spirit and Revitalisation

    9. Developing Ministry Teams

    10. Staying on Mission

    There is also an action plan as a follow up to the seminar where Chris works closely with the Minister and the leadership to track any implementation/progress arising from the seminar.

    • Think about evangelism and how to share your faith

    • To be intentional about sharing our faith - individually and collectively

  • This is training in Pastoral Leadership, with a focus on church Elders. 

    • What is a leader?

    • Why should we develop leaders?

    • How do we go about developing church leaders?

    • Presbyterian church governance structure

    • Elders as shepherds

    Contact us at mdc@pcv.org.au to express interest in any of our training programs for your church.

  • Meeting regularly with church Pastors across the state in small groups to encourage one another in:

    • Our walks with the Lord

    • Family life

    • Ministry

    • Church revitalisation efforts

    • To upskill each other

    For more information about any of our programs contact us at mdc@pcv.org.au

Other Resources

Presbyterian Church of Victoria

METRO Ministry Papers

Healthy Churches (from the Presbyterian Church of Queensland)

Ministry & Mission (from the Presbyterian Church of NSW)

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