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These 2010 church trends are changing the way that churches operate. This will be a year when people start to slow down in their desire for service projects and that type of community volunteering.  There has been an increasing involvement in reaching out to the people around us through community service, but we are reaching a turning point where people are losing interest.  This year we are going to start seeing churches trending away from this type of interaction.

Another sign of the declining loyalty to a single local church will be the increasing prevalence of crowdsourcing spirituality in the church.  If you are unfamiliar with crowdsourcing, it is the process of putting a problem before many sources (a crowd) to find a good solution.

 2010 will see more ministries fall by the wayside for lack of volunteers.  Of course, there are always a set of programs in churches that only hang on because a few people want to keep running them, but this will be the year where we see more of these start failing.

 Churches need leaders.  I think that anyone in church leadership will agree with that (if only to justify their own position), but the challenge has been to get leaders involved on the right level.  As churches are moving to more, smaller groups, many struggle with what leadership will look like.