Helping churches improve through Christ-centered guidance.

The churches in our world are healthy and are as smart about their organizational development as they are about their Biblical doctrines.

In 1995 Dr. Kenneth C. Lomax left one of the international consulting firms and started The LOMAX Consulting Group. He wanted to help Christian organizations in the same way he was helping the Fortune 500 companies. Through a traumatic accident during a hunting trip in Alaska, God spoke to Ken. He felt led and motivated to give something back to God that might count for eternity. Ken has over 35 years of organizational consulting experience and he has offered this to God. He began slowly learning how to adapt his business experience to churches. In 1997, he invited Dr. Robert D. Lewis, an ordained minister and denominational executive, to join him. Dr. Lewis accepted. After a year of modest growth, Lomax and Lewis became aware that Lomax would have to develop some business clients to do some "tent-making" in the tradition of the Apostle Paul. This effort went very well--almost too well.

In late 1999, it became apparent that the business and church divisions would have to be broken up and made into two separate companies, which was inaugurated in January, 2000. The LOMAX Consulting Group Ministries became Continuous Improvement Ministries. The business section merged with other business consultants and became an International business management enterprise named Performance Improvement Network. That company became Business Improvement Network or BIN, LLC. Dr. Lomax is the President and CEO of BIN, and he is the Executive Director of Continuous Improvement Ministries.

CIM's specialties are the local congregation, the religious denomination, and the parachurch ministry. CIM has developed a unique assessment for the church and religious organization that measures the improvement index in 15 ministry areas. An organization must know where and why it should change--as nearly as possible--before taking a group of people through the stress that always accompanies change. Our church-wide Improvement Opportunity Survey™ gives hard data from the whole organization that, along with other measurements an organization keeps, takes the decision on what to change out of the arena of guesswork.

Services

CIM has associates to help churches in practically every need in which they might require consultation or outside help. Here is a representative listing of specific areas of service:

• Strategy Planning
• Church-Wide Improvement Opportunity Assessments
• Church quality characteristics measurement
• Information Technology for churches and religious non-profit organizations
• Discipleship training
• Evangelism training
• Pastor Search Committee training and coaching
• Capital fund raising
• Financial budgeting and planning
• Closing the back-door: ministry to lapsed and retreating members
• How to conduct efficient and effective meetings
• Hiring procedures for church employees
• Tax code seminar for churches and staff
• Marketing plans and advertizing campaigns
• Developing policies and procedures
• Personality inventories
• Team development
• Conflict intervention and prevention
• Administrative seminars and training
• Leadership development
• Sexual harrassment and molestation policies and procedures

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