The National Church Growth Archives
The National Church Growth Research Center was founded by Paul Benjamin in 1972. Dr. Benjamin is a former professor of church growth at Lincoln Christian Seminary and author of the seminal work, The Growing Congregation, which has been described as "the first direct effort to apply church growth principles to the American context by a denomination publishing house." (C. Peter Wagner, quoted in : Rainer, Thom S. The Book of Church Growth. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1993).
In 1992 the Center's archives was donated to the Jessie C. Eury Library by Dr. Benjamin, who is currently Executive Director of the Center.
For more information on the National Church Growth Research Center see the article "Helping Churches Grow" by Paul Benjamin (Christian Standard, June 13, 1976, p. 5-6).