Publications by Members

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Finishing Well: Focusing on the Essentials for Ministry Health

Dale M. Wolyniak (Peak Vista Press, 2009) This book explores the challenges that ministers face on a daily basis and how leaders respond, both negatively and positively. There are many elements in a ministers life; like one’s style of leadership, time usage, accountability, nurturing relationships, and demands and expectations. All these, and more affect the …

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Discovering Church Planting: An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting

J.D. Payne (Paternoster, 2009) J. D. Payne explores the biblical, historical and missiological principles of global church planting as well as unfolding practical strategies for confronting contemporary challenges to our vital task in reaching a lost world. This comprehensive introduction to church planting shows the reader how to apply effective, international church planting practices to …

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Striking the Match: How God Is Using Ordinary People to Change the World Through Short-Term Missions

George G. Robinson (e3 Resources, 2008) Church planting movements are similar to wildfires in that both have a small beginning but given the right conditions, they rage and spread to affect everything around them. Spiritually speaking, the goal of any missionary should be to start a “wildfire” that literally changes the cultural landscape of the …

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Missional House Churches

Reaching Their Communities with the GospelJ.D. Payne (Paternoster, 2008) Missional House Churches examines the impact and effect that house churches are having in the United States in evangelizing, discipling, and church planting in local communities. Based on the author’s firsthand research and interview with over thirty missional house churches as well as his own experiences, …

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