A trinitarian ontological approach to the congregational revitalization of Loudsville United Methodist Church (Georgia)

The purpose of this study was to present an ontological approach to the congregational revitalization of Loudsville UMC, modeled after the Divine Archetype of the communio of the Trinity. Loudsville experienced plateau and decline in congregational, missional, and financial areas of community life. The approach presented in this study could potentially help congregations to rediscover their ontology and then to align the community of the church to the Divine Archetype. This pre-experimental case study of Loudsville United Methodist Church utilized content validity and a nonrandomized one-group pretest/posttest with no quasi-experimental or true experimental qualitative research designs.