Keith Ferguson (no relation) did a terrific summary and review of The BIG IDEA on his blog. If you haven't read the book and are interested, click on over to Keith's Blog.
Keith Ferguson (no relation) did a terrific summary and review of The BIG IDEA on his blog. If you haven't read the book and are interested, click on over to Keith's Blog.
You may have noticed that I have not been posting nearly as frequently over the last month. The reason is that Jon and I have spent almost every free moment (except for a vacation last week - which was great!) working on a new book. We are about 80% of the way done and we are both really pumped about it. This is a book for anyone who loves the mission of Jesus and wants to see it accomplished where they live. Very practical and I think inspirational. The working title is "The Reproducing Church: How You & Your Friends Can Start A Movement.
Today I have a meeting today with Chris Fann and Ryan Pazdur of Zondervan to talk about marketing the book. They asked me to start brainstorming ways to get the word out about this new book. So, I thought I would see if you could help. Leave me a comment with your thoughts or answering these questions: How would you market a new book? What creative ideas have you seen for getting the word out about a book? Are there ways that you would like to help us?
Catalyst Voices - Dave Ferguson from Catalyst on Vimeo.
Got a chance to hangout last night with L.V. Hanson, Ambassador for the Catalyst Conference and head honcho of the Catalyst Road Trip. Since he was new to Chicago I had to treat him to some Lou Malnati's pizza. He's a great guy and we had a great time. In the video we talked a lot about church planting and where Community is headed as a missional church. If you want to read his post about our conversation it is on the Catalystspace blog titled First Full Day in Chicago and it includes some stuff on multi-site that is not in the video.
I got an e-mail from Zondervan that for a limited time this summer they will be offering all of the titles in the Innovations series at 50% off! This offer includes The BIG IDEA, and new releases like The Multi-Site Road Trip, which I just got a copy and it looks really good! Other books you can get at 50% off are Servolution, Deliberate Simplicity, Sticky Church, The Monkey and the Fish and more.
To get any of the Innovation Series books at 50% off, just click HERE and find the 5 digit code.
Over the last couple weeks we sent more than 100 students on mission trips to New Orleans, Galveston, Mexico and Philippines. This is a pic of some of the students (including my son Josh) taking a break at the beach after a hard day of work. I'm extraordinarily proud of our students.
Our student ministry made a strategic decision this year that rather than send our students to another conference (they already have a Blast Winter Conference) they decided that they would encourage students to go on mission trips. I think this bias toward less talk and more action is something the church needs if we are to accomplish the mission of Jesus.
At 11:00 pm tonight they allowed people to get a user address on facebook. I got on early enough I was able to get www.facebook.com/daveferguson It may not seem like a big deal...but I'm pretty happy!
Learnings at Leadership Network was asked, "What are the blogs of young megachurch pastors who preach with substantial content?" Here you go:
You got a couple options for debate: "do they really preach with substantial content" OR "are these guys really young?" Enjoy!
If you have been on the Community Christian Church website lately you may have noticed that when you click on the "locations" tab there are no longer 9 locations but 11! We are excited to announce that we are currently forming launch teams for both East Aurora and Aurora (North). Both of these launch teams have already attracted a large numbers of people and look to be big impact sites.
If you are interested in learning more about the East Aurora site, click HERE. If you want more info about the Aurora (North) site click HERE.