Launch-starting a new church from scratch by Nelson Searcy and Kerrick Thomas

Thinking about starting a church but feel like everything is stacked against you? Let authors Nelson Searcy and Kerrick Thomas, both pastors at The Journey Church of the City, offer you specific strategies for beginning a church from scratch. As true practitioners, they launched a New York City church with no members, no money and no staff, and then watched membership skyrocket to more than a thousand people in three years!

How did they do it? You'll discover clear, proven strategies for planning services, building a team, raising funds, evangelism and rapidly developing a growing membership. Specific advice is included for reaching that often difficult-to-target demographic, the 20- to 40-year-old. You'll also get an insider's look at The Journey Church of the City as a model for church planting.

Let this be your toolkit to begin building a healthy, growing church from scratch

NELSON SEARCY is the founding Pastor of The Journey Church of the City in New York, NY. Nelson and his wife, Kelley, started The Journey from scratch in 2002, and it has quickly become a dynamic force that brings God's message to thousands of twenty and thirty-somethings each week. Over the last three years, Nelson has personally trained over 1000 church planters through his own seminars and training events, with Saddleback Church. In addition, he has produced a wide range of successful church planting resources that have been distributed to over 8000 pastors in the United States. Nelson is an active church planting coach, author and church growth consultant. He is the publisher of the semi-monthly online resource Evangelism Online that is distributed to 16,000 pastors each month. Prior to starting The Journey, he was the founding Director of the Purpose Driven Community at Saddleback Church, with over 5000 member churches.

KERRICK THOMAS is a teaching pastor at The Journey, and has been with the church from the beginning. Prior to moving to New York to start The Journey, he received his Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. Kerrick regularly co-leads training events with Nelson Searcy.