Dear Friends of His Church At Work,

Happy New Year to each of you! We at His Church at Work want to wish you a very blessed 2006!

We also want to thank our friends and partners who took full advantage of our year-end Matching Grant! It is so exciting to see what God continues to do in the hearts and lives of our partner churches and how 2006 promises to bring a multitude of new ones to carry the excitement of workplace ministry to their members and communities!

God continues to amaze us as we see His work in the lives of workplace believers all over the country. Join us as we seek to commission 70,000 more workplace believers this year!

Looking forward to a fantastic 2006!

Doug Spada, Founder - His Church at Work

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LEADING CHURCH JOINS HCAW NETWORK
HCAW welcomes Perimeter Church of Duluth, GA!

Perimeter Church, a thriving church of approximately 5000 members with a spirit of excellence in discipleship and missions, has joined the HCAW National Network of Worklife Churches. They have planted several congregations and influenced many other churches in the Atlanta area and beyond.

Perimeter represents the city of Atlanta in the Global Learning Community, a group of “city reachers” representing 12 cities across the US and globally. Perimeter was also selected to be a part of the Leadership Network’s Externally Focused Church community.

Reaching out to people in the place where they spend the majority of their time is a critical component of Perimeter’s ongoing strategic focus. His Church at Work is honored to be selected to help train and empower this dynamic and forward-thinking congregation.

Churches are envisioning a whole new ministry landscape for the local church--expanding to include the workplace as a strategic focus. For more information on how your church can position for Worklife impact just like Perimeter Church - contact us below.

Information on Church WorkLife Solutions and Services

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SURVEY SAYS--ADULTS ARE LUKEWARM ABOUT GOD

The Barna Group recently surveyed adults who attended Protestant churches and asked them to identify their top priority in life. Only 23% named faith in God as their top priority. In a separate survey, Barna asked a group of Protestant pastors what they thought was the highest priority of their congregants. Those pastors contended that 70% of the adults in their church consider their personal faith in God to transcend all other priorities.

What can be done about the gap that appears between the pastors' perceptions and the members' responses? We have seen this gap decrease significantly when the church commits to equip their members to live authentically and purposefully for Christ through their work lives.

During this Worklife process, members come to better realize their value to God's work and the importance of having their relationship to God as their highest priority. In a controlled study of churches – it was found that member’s satisfaction with their church went up 58% when the church equipped those members for their Worklife. Click here for more information on this study research.

How HCAW helps churches bridge the gap.....

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SUCCESS CHARACTERISTICS FOR WORKLIFE MINISTRY
His Church at Work was built on the realization that an effective worklife ministry is not a "program" but a process that can and should be integrated into every phase of the church. Our passion is to empower pastors and churches to help them equip their members to live out their faith authentically and purposefully in their worklives.

Over the years, HCAW has built a proven process on the following characteristics which result in a sustained, successful workplace ministry in a church:

• Intentional focus--required to overcome the Sunday–Monday (faith-work) disconnect in people’s lives.
• Sustainable (vs. just events)--WorkLife Ministry grows in incremental steps.
• Strategic (vs. only tactics)--Fostering WorkLife requires consistent and on–going strategy.
• Visible to the people--Effective WorkLife Ministry has a name, a logo and a communication plan. It can be seen and accessed by your congregation at all times.
• Inclusive--Its audience is the entire church. Everyone has a worklife.

If you are a pastor or church member who wants to see your members transformed into believers actively living out their faith in their worklives, contact HCAW by clicking on the link below.

Successful WorkLife Ministry starts here.....

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