Jim Tomberlin and Warren Bird
"Mergers today work best not with two struggling churches but with a vital, momentum-filled lead church partnering with a joining church. This much-needed resource provides a complete, practical, hands-on guide for leaders of both struggling and vibrant churches, so they can understand the issues, develop strategies, and execute mergers for church expansion and renewal. No matter what your motivation for merging your church with another - to begin a new church life cycle, reach more people for Christ, multiply your church's impact, or better serve your community - Better Together will give you the tools you need to create a thriving new entity."
You can put a checkmark beside each of the possible motivations for merger just mentioned and that would apply to what seems to be on the near horizon for Valley Christian Church and a new "church plant" happening in Lakeville, Anchor Community Church (pre-launch website under construction). There are still T's to be crossed and I's to be dotted, but it certainly seems like God is leading the leadership of both these churches to join forces to have an impact on Lakeville, Minnesota that neither could have on their own. And that's why I read this book. And it is so very, very good: A solid 5 stars.
First Line: 2% of congregations each year vote (or are required) to close, a number likely to increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but some of them could instead restart as a merger.
Page 56 / Line 5: The multisite factor was only on Healing Place's side.
A Good Line from Somewhere in the Middle: Successful mergers are vehicles of change, not preservers of the status quo.
Last Line: Is there a church merger on your horizon?
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