Author Description

Product Description Leadership Network commissioned a study by Ed Stetzer (who heads up LifeWay Research) on church planting, i.e., the process of getting a new church started. Leadership Network wanted to find out what the best practices were in church planting and uncover the common threads among them. This book will use research findings to inform, guide, and even catalyze today's many church planting leaders. It will show them how to form a movement and will hopefully also inspire them to do so. It will address their felt needs of what to do next in their church planting strategies, in light of research on what's actually working best. About the Author Ed Stetzer is one of today's leading voices in helping the church stay anchored to its roots while becoming active in culture. He is president of LifeWay Research, as well as a nonstop author and teacher, a trendsetting church planter, and dad to three really fun daughters. Warren Bird (PhD, Fordham University) serves as a primary researcher and writer for Leadership Network and has more than ten years of church staff and of seminary teaching experience. He has collaboratively written twenty books, all on subjects of church health or church innovation. Warren and his wife live just outside of New York City. Read by Adam Verner, Suzanne Toren, Feodor Chin, Traber Burns, Keith Szarabajka, Suzanne Elise Freeman, Tanya Eby, Mark Bramhall, Carrington MacDuffie, Erin Bennett, Adenrele Ojo, Malcolm Hillgartner, Andrew Eiden, Tim Campbell, Lisa Flanagan, and Dara Rosenberg