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What is Compassion by Design?

An Idea. A model independent approach to growing healthier new churches and making existing churches more externally effective through well designed community engagement.

A Process for New Churches. Three steps along with practical tools and support designed for new churches that want to transform communities and grow healthier and missional churches.

Resource for Church Planting Organizations and Networks. Empowering church planting supporters to attract and succeed with community focused planters.
Tools for Externally Focused Churches.

Practical tools for churches that want to engage and sustain community impact.

Coaching and Materials Provider. Integrate our materials, empower and improve your coaching, amplify your church impact, join with others on the journey.

Why Compassion by Design?

Community impact starts with a plan. Compassion by Design is for Christians who want to build community service into the fabric of their new or existing church… and want to sustain that service!

Some of our goals for your ministry are to:

• Harness Compassionate Service for Church Growth
• Compassion that is Intentionally Designed
• Build Credibility with A Skeptical Generation
• Become a Gift to the City
• Mobilize Dormant Talents, and to Take it Beyond the Missions Budget.

Get information about the founder David W. Mills >

Compassion by Design is a Ministry of Thrive Missions.

• Romans 10:14

  But how can people call for help if they don’t know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven’t heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it?