The Barnabas Factors: Eight Essential Practices of Church Planting Team Members
J. D. Payne serves as the pastor of church multiplication for The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama.   He served for a decade as a professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and nine years with the North American Mission Board.  He has pastored churches in Kentucky and Indiana, and served with several church planting teams in the United States. He is the author of Missional House Churches: Reaching Our Communities with the Gospel; Discovering Church Planting: An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting; Evangelism: A Biblical Response to Today's Questions; Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration, and Mission; Roland Allen: Pioneer of Spontaneous Expansion; and Kingdom Expressions: Trends Influencing the Advancement of the Gospel.   He also blogs at jdpayne.org and can be located on Twitter @jd_payne He is married to Sarah.  They have three children, Hannah, Rachel, and Joel.