Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work

BETTER TOGETHER

How Church Mergers Can Revitalize Struggling Congregations

San Francisco, CA - In response to overall declines in membership, North American churches are seeking new strategies to combat this trend. Many, at an unprecedented level, are uniting with each other--two churches becoming one new entity or as co-authors Jim Tomberlin and Warren Bird coin - BETTER TOGETHER (Jossey-Bass, March 2012, ISBN:978-1-118-13130-5, $24.95 / Cloth / also available as an e-book).  Tomberlin and Bird show that church mergers today work best not with two struggling churches but with a vital, momentum-filled lead church partnering with a joining church.   

This movement is happening within and across denominations and is even rising in popularity among non-denominational churches.  Many leaders are faced with questions like, "Is there a way for them to combine forces, drawing on both their strengths, in ways that also increase their missional impact?"

BETTER TOGETHER provides a complete, practical, hands-on guide for church leaders of both struggling and vibrant churches so that they can understand the issues, develop strategies, and execute a variety of forms of merger for church expansion and renewal to reinvigorate declining churches and give them a "second life."

This book is a must-have, practical guide for all leaders of churches who are looking to figure out the best ways to unite, join, or merge into stronger, healthier congregations.