num_pages: 272
description: Thousands of Protestant churches are perplexed by plateaued or declining attendance while other congregations nearby thrive. Is there a way for them to combine forces drawing on both their strengths in ways that also increase their missional impact? Church merger consultant Jim Tomberlin with co-writer Warren Bird makes the case that mergers today work best not with two struggling churches but with a vital momentum-filled lead church partnering with a joining church. In this new book they provide a complete practical hands-on guide for church leaders of both struggling and vibrant churches so that they can understand the issues develop strategies and execute a variety of forms of merger for church expansion and renewal to reinvigorate declining churches and give them a second life.
language: English
title: Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work
publisher: Jossey-Bass