Small Church Essentials: Field-Tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of under 250

He’s been a small church pastor for 30 years, is the author of The Grasshopper Myth: Big Churches, Small Churches, and the Small Thinking that Divides Us (2013), and travels extensively to churches and conferences to speak about leading a small church well.If you are pastoring a small church, this book will be a breath of fresh air. Do you lead a small church?  Big churches get all the love. Articles, books, conferences—they mostly feature leaders of large congregations. In fact, more than 90 percent of churches have fewer than 200 people. Small Church Essentials is for leaders of these smaller congregations. It will affirm your calling while giving you fresh tools to help you lead. Readers will: Be assured that leading a small congregation does not make them ministry failuresCome away inspired to lead with passion, regardless the size of their churchHave field-tested principles for leading a church to apply in their contextPossess new metrics for biblically measuring vitality in small churchesHave a toolkit of resources to use in their everyday ministryKarl Vaters is a small church guru. Based on the popular six-hour lecture that Karl Vaters delivers to church leaders across the country, Small Church Essentials will affirm small church leaders and show them how to identify what they do well, and how to do it even better. It will help you: Stop believing