It’s exciting for me to be able to announce–first here on my blog–the arrival of a new book on church planting entitled PlantLIFE: Principles and Practices in Church Planting! This book is a compilation of forty or so of our best and brightest church planting leaders across the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware. These 69 short articles first appeared in our state convention’s monthly newsjournal and cover the “story of church planting” here since 2001. During this period of time BCM/D has planted over 200 new churches across the multi-state region; the book chronicles that journey.
I have had the personal privilege of writing almost thirty of the articles myself and of editing them all, first for the paper and now for this book. It has been exciting to see the material come together for the first comprehensive look at “why we do what we do” (principles) and “how we do what we do” (practices) here in our convention.
The 327-page book is scheduled to make it’s inaugural appearance at the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware’s Annual Meeting on November 10 in Dover, Delaware. (We hope you’ll plan to be there for our meeting.) For others it will be posted on Amazon.com within the coming week and you will be able to secure it there, or directly from the publisher, Missional Press.
My thanks go out to all the planters, staff and to Missional Press for working with us on this project. My hope and prayer is that it will have great Kingdom impact for our Lord in the years to come.
Congratulations! I can’t wait to see the book!!! Will you be having any drawings for a giveaway??
Congratulations on the book! I’ll let Garet know about it–I am sure that he will want to read it too.
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