Roland Allen: Pioneer of Spontaneous Expansion
J. D. Payne serves as the pastor for church multiplication with The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama.  Before moving to Birmingham, he served with the North American Mission Board and as an associate professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary where he taught church planting and evangelism and directed the Center for North American Missions and Church Planting.  He has pastored churches in Kentucky and Indiana and has served with several church planting teams. He is the author of Missional House Churches: Reaching Our Communities with the Gospel; The Barnabas Factors: Eight Essential Practices of Church Planting Team Members; 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; and Kingdom Expressions: Trends Influencing the Advancement of the Gospel. He blogs at jdpayne.org and can be found on Twitter @jd_payne. He is married to Sarah. They have three children, Hannah, Rachel, and Joel.