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Better Together : Making Church Mergers Work - Expanded and Updated /
In Better Together, Expanded and Updated: Making Church Mergers Work, church merger consultant Jim Tomberlin and award-winning writer Warren Bird provide a complete, practical, hands-on guide for church leaders of both struggling and vibrant churches, so they can understand the issues, develop strat...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. The new church merger landscape. Mergers are everywhere
- God is moving!
- Why merge?
- Nine merger drivers
- II. How healthy church mergers work. Four merger models (but only three that work)
- Stages and speed of a merger
- Measuring church merger success
- Why mergers fail
- Navigating personnel changes
- Church mergers vs. marketplace mergers
- When two become one: legal and financial aspects of a church merger
- III. Is a church merger in your future? Is your church leadership merger friendly?
- Is your church a good merger candidate?
- How to start the merger conversation
- Tools for the merger journey: templates, examples, and a checklist
- Where do you go from here?
- Appendix A: Merger research
- Appendix B: Merger facts
- Appendix C: 25 issues to determine feasibility: Sun Valley and Bethany Community Church
- Appendix D: 25 issues to determine feasibility: Christ Fellowship Miami
- Appendix E: FAQs from Woodside Bible Church
- Appendix F: Churches named.