Planted: Starting Well, Growing Strong
J. David Jackson has been in ministry since 1977, when he served as a student missionary to New Hampshire while in college. He has helped plant three churches in the Northeastern United States. Over the years he has also served God in the local church as a children’s minister, youth minister, associate pastor, interim pastor and a senior pastor. In addition, he has worked in collegiate ministry and in denominational service at both the associational (district) level in Boston, Massachusetts, and at the state convention (regional) level in Maryland/Delaware, since 1998.  He currently serves as the Team Strategist for the Church Multiplication Center of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware. There he has led the convention to start over 350 churches since 2001. He is a Doctor of Ministry graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He also has earned degrees from three other schools of higher education. This is his second book. In 2008, he was the primary author and editor of PlantLIFE: Principles and Practices in Church Planting. He has been married to his wife, Joye, for over twenty-seven years. They have three grown children.