GraceWorks Ministries provides innovative marketing, fundraising, research, and visioning solutions for cutting-edge K - 12 Christian schools that are, or desire to be, great Christian schools. 

GraceWorks is 10 years old, and growing!  We are transforming every aspect of our ministry, inside and out:

Check back frequently as we expand our website to reflect many expansions and improvements in our non-profit ministry.

	•Increase Enrollment	•Fundraising Feasibility Study
	•Improve School Fundraising and Development	•Non-Profit Capital Campaign
	•How to Start a Christian School	•School Finance / Tuition Increase
	•Planning / Visioning	•Coaching / Training Materials

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Normal ... or Average?  Lead ... or Decline?

The fact is, Christian school enrollment is down at many Christian schools in America.  That bastion of Christian conservatism, USA Today, claims that Christian School enrollment is down, on average, 2% nationwide since September -- with no statistical evidence whatsoever to back up this audacious (and ridiculous) claim.

Ask yourself, is enrollment decline during a recession average, or normal? Certainly, from a Biblical point of view, it's not normal, because the Kingdom of God does steadily advance (Luke 13:18-21, Daniel 2:44).  More practically, thousands of Christian schools are increasing in enrollment -- even last fall.  We work with them every day.  (Normal = Growing!)

Is enrollment decline during recession average?  No.  During the last three economic downturns, enrollment at private schools in America has held constant.  (Ditto overall fundraising results.) 

The real question is whether you personally will lead your school beyond decline.  We can tell you in 45 minutes at least half a dozen reasons why you are not growing -- try us out.  

And if you'd like to do something about these problems, plus some 25+ other problems, try our fully guaranteed, comprehensive Christian school marketing process.

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Do You Want to Grow Your Christian School?

Do you want to grow?  Are you willing to pay the price?  Are you willing to embrace the demands of our current economic, political, and spiritual environment?  Or would you rather be part of someone's statistic?  It's up to you.

Decide soon.  Because it is hard for Christian schools, and it will get harder. 

In economics, Robert Novak, Alan Greenspan, Forbes, Business Week, Bill Clinton and the New York Times all agree:  read the The World is Curved.  Our government leaders act as if the current downturn is a "once in a lifetime" event.  David Smick argues convincingly that it is not.  Ask older people about the psychology surrounding 1937's "depression in a depression." 

Spiritually, are you aware that 50 - 60% of active, church-going Christian teenagers lose their faith during their four years at secular colleges?   Gary Railsback, Steve Henderson, and George Barna each found this in three separate studies involving over 50,000 former college students. 

A number of denominations are facing acute pastor / priest shortages in the years ahead.  Whether that problem will be solved is largely dependent on the success of their K - 12 Christian schools.

Politically, no one is saying that a Democrat controlled federal government will be good for private Christian schools.  (Millennials tend to be more Democratic than Republican.)  Perhaps the only good of all of this is to force us to truly live out God's highest purposes for our Christian schools, operating boldly with excellence.

God has a plan and an answer for all of this for your Christian school. It has been our amazing honor and blessing to experience what He is doing all over the country.  We can help your Christian school be part of that bold, leading edge.  

	•Increase Enrollment	•Fundraising Feasibility Study
	•Improve School Fundraising and Development	•Non-Profit Capital Campaign
	•How to Start a Christian School	•School Finance / Tuition Increase
	•Planning / Visioning	•Coaching / Training Materials

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