Know Your Community

organization

Antioch, TN.

Description

This organization helps Free Will Baptist congregations understand their community demographics and plan community outreach. Know Your Community is a program from the National Association of Free Will Baptists and is grounded in the belief that learning about your neighbors is a step toward loving them.

To help congregations achieve these goals, Know Your Community provides a detailed demographic report about a congregation’s area and hosts a virtual meeting to present and discuss the report’s findings. Know Your Community also connects congregations with similar Free Will Baptist congregations so they can learn from and support each other in their neighborhood outreach.

Features

Sample report
Presentations and meetings on Zoom

Recommended Audience

church community

Cost

Varies per service

Practical Applications

View the sample report to determine if the information will be valuable to your congregation’s outreach efforts.
Order a report to learn more about the demographics of your congregation’s neighborhood and connect with similar congregations.

Updated: January 08, 2025

About the Contributor

Dr. Terrance A. Bridges II

Terrance Bridges is the director of the Center’s Northwest office in Crown Point and serves congregations in the Northwest portion of the state. He is licensed with subsequent ordination from Pentecostal Churches of the Apostolic Faith. An ordained elder, Terrance combines his parish ministry with adjunct professor work for Grace College, New Horizons Christian University, and guest lecturing at colleges and universities. His consulting practice includes work in the areas of program development, evaluation, congregational strategic planning and intergenerational ministry.

Terrance has a bachelor’s degree from Taylor University in Upland, a master’s from Ball State University, Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies and Doctoral Studies from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is working on his culminating doctoral project in education at Northcentral University in Prescott, Arizona. He has served in ministry at Eastern Star Church, Indianapolis, and Union Baptist Church in Muncie. He continues his ministry service at Mt. Zion Apostolic Church, Indianapolis, through the ministerial alliance, leadership council, preaching and teaching ministries.