The Reach Movement team is building a movement of churches that grow and multiply. But how do you grow and multiply in the current mission field of COVID-19? Everything we knew about how to be and do church seems to have vanished. The world is different. Can the church be different too? That’s what we’re here to explore over these three #churchdifferent webinars.

To help our missional imaginations we’ve gathered together some great church leaders from across the country who tend to be on the front-end of the adaptive curve for ministry. Each webinar will feature a pastor of a large church, a pastor of a small(er) church, and a coach or consultant who is working with multiple churches. We’ll explore how the church is adapting to accomplish its mission in this different world, to still make more disciples of Jesus Christ to transform the world.

If you are watching on Facebook right now, would you take a moment and share this webinar so that your friends can have the opportunity to join in too. And don’t forget that you can post questions in the Q&A section of Zoom or in the comments on Facebook, and our Reach Resources Executive Producer, Leslie Schneider, will be following those and moderating the Q&A later in the webinar.

Here's our panelists for today:

Jon Ferguson
Jon is the co-founding pastor of Community Christian Church in Chicagoland with his brother, Dave, and the co-founder of New Thing network, a network helping churches to multiply all across the world. Jon was the keynote speaker at this past October’s Reach Summit. He is also the co-author of several books including Finding Your Way Back to God, Starting Over, The Big Idea, and Exponential. I interviewed him in a past episode of Reach Resources about multiplication and you can find that at ReachResources.org. I was planning to spend ten days shadowing Jon this August as a kind of micro-residency, but who knows whether that will happen these days. Jon is an innovative, very-big-picture thinker, while all the while somehow remaining, or seeming to remain, humble and grounded in the realities of being a pastor of a local church.

Rachel Gilmore
Rachel is the planting pastor of The Gathering at Scott Memorial UMC in Virginia Beach and has recently been reappointed to work at Path1, the church planting arm of the United Methodist Church, helping to assess and train church planters. I interviewed her in a recent Reach Resources podcast where she described just how many obstacles she had to overcome to launch a thriving and effective church. Most of us would have crumbled. Rachel is dynamic, energetic, inspiring and vision oriented. She is one of the keynote speakers at this year’s Reach Summit. But maybe more important than any of that, Rachel is a fellow Blue Devil! Woot! Woot!

Eric Kieb
Eric is the Lead Pastor of Grace Church, a multi-site in the Bay City, MI area. Grace began as a vital merger and has since branched out to grow through adopting another church and launching a church in a pizza parlor. Eric has been in my Reach Systems network group several times, and he’s one of the pastors that I turn to when I’m trying to figure out some of my own challenges in ministry these days. Our churches are very similar. We both lead small-church multi-sites.

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