Why? Every church in needs help, at least from time to time. Insight from a discerning observer with a fresh pair of eyes. A neutral opinion from an objective perspective. Advice from a trained church consultant.
For this reason, every church denomination in Malaysia should develop a team of church consultants. Under the auspices of their denominational body they engage with the local church to provide insights, resolve conflicts, troubleshoot, analyse the church’s health, determine solutions, and walk the church through the implementation process.
This Church Consulting Training Module will provide a basic but critical foundation for a church denomination to develop such a team of church consultants to serve its group of churches.
What? The module covers:
- The purpose of church consulting
- The qualities of a church consultant
- The process for church consulting
- The scope of church consulting
- Pre-requisites for successful church consulting
- How your theology affects your consultation
- Introduction to church health & church health analysis
- How to write a report
- Case studies
- And more
Pre-requisites. The participants must:
- Be recommended by denominational leaders
- Have basic theological training
- Be experienced pastors or church leaders
- Have a credible track record in church ministry
The Trainer. Rev. Dr. Lim Soon Hock is Malaysia’s first certified church consultant with the Society for Church Consulting (USA; website: https://churchconsulting.org/). He has had about 30 years of pastoral ministry that includes being the Senior Pastor of Georgetown Baptist Church, Penang, and PJ Evangelical Free Church, Petaling Jaya.
Soon Hock completed a Doctor of Ministry from the Malaysia Baptist Theological Seminary, Penang in 2024. For his doctoral project he developed a unique church health diagnostic instrument called CHArT: The Church Health Analysis Tool.
In 2014, he founded Empower Services & Consultancy as a vehicle to fulfil his God-given vision to empower pastors, church leaders, and churches through church consulting. For a preliminary discussion on the Church Consulting Training Module please write to Soon Hock at empoweringchurches.my@gmail.com.