Launch: Starting a New Church from Scratch

Description

Starting a church from scratch? Start here!

This is no typical church planting or church growth book. The authors, both pastors at The Journey Church of the City in Manhattan, offer specific strategies for beginning a church from scratch, based on their own experiences of launching a church with no members, no money, and no staff and watched membership skyrocket to more than a thousand people in three years!

They offer clear, practical how-to strategies for quickly raising funds, creating a team, planning services, effective evangelism, and rapidly developing a growing membership.

Specific advice is included for reaching that often difficult-to-target demographic, the 20 to 40 year old.

You will also get an insider’s look at The Journey Church of the City as a model for church planting.

The helpful strategies here will help you remove many of the barriers, questions, and doubts encountered in starting a church from scratch.

If these principles work in NYC, they will work for you!

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Nelson Searcy is the founding and lead pastor of The Journey Church. Started in 2002 in New York City, this groundbreaking church sees the majority of its growth coming from new believers and currently meets in locations in Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, as well as additional locations in San Francisco and Boca Raton. Nelson is the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Donald A. McGavran Award for Outstanding Leadership in Great Commission Research. He is the author of more than seventy-five church growth resources and twelve books, including The Generosity Ladder, Maximize, Connect, and Ignite. Nelson is also an experienced church planter, coach, and church-growth strategist. Before to founding The Journey, he served as the director of the Purpose Driven Community at Saddleback Church. He is also the founder of ChurchLeaderInsights.com and the Renegade Pastors Network.

Kerrick Thomas is a teaching pastor at The Journey Church and regularly co-leads training events with Nelson Searcy. Prior to his move to New York to plant The Journey, he received a Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary.

• Paperback: 256 pages
• ISBN-10: 0801072891
• ISBN-13: 9780801072895
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces

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