Over the past 2,000 years the world has certainly been changed by the presence of the Church.  From the Day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descended and Peter stood up with the eleven Apostles, preached the first sermon and three thousand in Israel believed, the Church has been on the move and literally has gone into all of the world.

As organizations grow, they begin to hire employees.   

Churches are often started with a minimum of employees and rely heavily on volunteers to handle most of the assignments and responsibilities.

One of the megatrends in churches has been to rethink the concept of Membership.   

Some of the largest churches in the country no longer offer memberships and instead encourage their regular attenders to consider a partnership with the church.   These partnerships are similar to membership in many respects however it does allow the church to identify some unique differences: