num_pages: 256
description: Do you lead a small church? Big churches get all the love. Articles books conferencesthey mostly feature leaders of large congregations. Yet big churches are a small part of the ecclesial landscape. In fact more than 90 percent of churches have fewer than 200 people. That means small churches play a big part in what God is doing. Small Church Essentials is for leaders of these smaller congregations. It encourages them to steward their role well debunking myths about small churches while offering principles for leading a dynamic healthy small church. Based on the popular six-hour lecture that Karl Vaters delivers to church leaders across the country Small Church Essentials will affirm small church leaders and show them how to identify what they do well and how to do it even better. Readers Karl Vaters has been a small church pastor for 30 years is the author of The Grasshopper Big Churches Small Churches and the Small Thinking that Divides Us (2013) and travels extensively to churches and conferences to speak about leading a small church well. If you are pastoring a small church this book will be a breath of fresh air. It will affirm your calling while giving you fresh tools to help you lead. It will help 
language: English
title: Small Church Essentials: Field-Tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of under 250
publisher: Moody Publishers