Church Health & Growth
Assisting Texas Baptist churches in evaluating their church health, engaging their community with the Gospel and growing God’s Kingdom by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Center for Church Health has experts in church growth, worship, discipleship, evangelism, church architecture and biblical resources to guide churches to fulfill the Great Commission.
Church Restarting and Revitalization
Church revitalization and church restarting focus on the rebirth of the church. Desiring to give hope to the fledgling church, both processes focus on creating new initiatives that help the church make disciples, engage with their community in fresh and relevant ways, and take the gospel to the nations.
Texas Baptist Church Revitalization Strategy designed to help pastors customize revitalization for their context by equipping them with resources and placing them in cohorts to be trained by a coach and encouraged within a community of pastors.
For more information, contact pave[at]texasbaptists.org.
Upcoming Pave Offerings
Pave North Central Texas
April 13-15, 2026
Canyon Creek Baptist Church
Pave North Texas
April 27-29, 2026
Fellowship Church – Grapevine
Pave East Texas
September 28-30, 2026
East Texas Baptist University
Church Answers Partnership
The Church Health & Growth Team is excited to partner with Church Answers and Thom and Sam Rainer to provide Texas Baptists churches with a wealth of church health tools for all aspects of ministry including:
- How to assess a church’s health
- Demographic and psychographic reports
- Leadership development
- Models for reaching local communities
- Guides for utilizing prayer as an evangelism tool
In addition, a new consultant training program will help to raise up more people to advise churches across the state.
For more information contact us with the information below.
Three Pastoral Practices of a Church Revitalizer
by Jessica King on April 30, 2026 in Pave
By adopting these three practices, you can join the many pastors who have seen successful church revitalization.
The Pave Podcast
Welcome to the Pave podcast, hosted by Jonathan Smith. Pave: New Paths for Church Growth is the Texas Baptists church health, growth, and revitalization strategy, designed to help each pastor customize revitalization for their context. In this podcast, our desire is for you to be equipped to lead a vibrant, growing church and encouraged by pastors who are leading revitalized churches.
Found on all major podcast platforms.
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Consulting Sessions
The Church Health & Growth Team provides on-site and virtual consultation to Texas Baptist churches. We encourage, equip, and coach pastors and congregations in all aspects of church health, growth, and leadership development.
Tom Howe
Director, Church Health & Growth
(214) 828-5278
tom.howe[at]texasbaptists.org
Jonathan L. Smith
Associate Director, Center for Church Health