A Practical Guide to Church Planting
by Roger N. McNamara and Ken Davis
Pages: 660
Dimensions: 6 x 9
CategoryType : Paperback
ISBN : 9781597811033
Price : $31.99
Type : Hardcover
ISBN : 9781597811040
Price : $44.99
The Y-B-H Handbook of Church Planting is a practical step-by-step guide for church planters and their coaches. It covers everything they need to know to start healthy, growing churches that are biblically faithful and yet culturally relevant. While addressing the who, why, and where of planting new congregations, this comprehensive manual focuses primarily on the "how-tos." The authors use a five-stage "life cycle"—conception, pre-natal development, birth/infancy, adolescent growth, and adult reproduction—to flesh out the entire process of starting and growing a new church. Under each of these stages, a host of essential ministry and planning tasks is addressed so the planter can keep his "baby" church on course and can have the joy of watching the new church grow to maturity and eventually reproduce itself.
ROGER MCNAMARA served as a missionary church planter in Latin America for a dozen years, and he has spent the past twenty-eight years writing, teaching, and starting new churches in Virginia and Florida. He currently serves in several leadership positions within the North America Field Council of Baptist Mid-Missions. He is a graduate of Practical Bible Training School and holds degrees from Cedarville College and Liberty University.
KEN DAVIS grew up in Guyana, South America, and has been involved in church planting most of his life as an MK (missionary kid), college student, and missionary. He has planted several cross-cultural churches, has taught church planting and missions at the Bible college level, and currently serves as the director of Project Jerusalem, a ministry training and mentoring program for church planters out of Baptist Bible Seminary in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania (see www.bbc.edu/churchplanting).