Articles for tag: Philip Claycomb

May 1, 2020

SPOTLIGHT: Central Christian Church, Richardson, Texas

Texas Church Takes on ‘Guest-Ready’ Initiative—and Grows in the Meantime By Chris Moon Central Christian Church in Richardson, Texas, knew it had its work cut out for it. The 55-year-old congregation had gone through hard times. In 2017, declining attendance had left just 80 people in the pews, down from more than 200. Financially, the church was struggling. It needed a pastor. And its building had some deferred maintenance needs. “They were very demoralized,” said Philip Claycomb, the church’s senior pastor. Claycomb, who also leads Nexus Church Planting & Leader Care, began working with the church quarter-time in June 2018.

June 15, 2015

Christian Standard

Church Leadership

Responding to Jim Putman

We asked three leaders to react to Jim Putman’s article describing his church’s decision to plant churches instead of developÂ multisites. By Brent Storms,Â president, The Orchard Group (www.orchardgroup.org) ONE OF THE BIGGEST FACTORSÂ in starting healthy churches is the quality of the lead planter. One of the characteristics of the best church planters is that they are great communicators. The only way to develop one”s communication gift is to be afforded frequent opportunities to speak and receive helpful feedback. I share Jim”s concern that the trend toward campuses that are video venues effectively reduces the opportunities younger leaders have to preach. That