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Today's All-Star Missions Churches: Strategies to Help Your Church Get Into the Game

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The author went around to many different churches around the country and interviewed the pastors and missions pastors. He highlighted (what he believed to be) the churches that were the best at doing missions in the country and what made them unique. He throws in the baseball theme to spruce the book up, but it isn't that pervasive.

There are good insights, but the book does cater to larger churches. Many of these churches have well over 1,000 members attending. But he tried to highlight why he picked the church and what they did that set them apart from the rest of the churches. The last two chapters list off a bunch of churches that would receive an honorable mention status. The appendix lists off a bunch of good missions books that are worth reading.

Overall, I liked the book for giving more insights to how different churches do missions, but I was also happy as to the brevity of the book. Even though many of the churches took unique approaches, after a while, it seemed like many of the churches were doing many of the same things to promote missions (such as sending pastoral staff overseas, doing a perspectives course, and going to missions conferences). I recommend the read to lay-leaders, pastors, missionaries, and any college students majoring in the ministry.

***On a side note: I bought it for the Kindle and the formatting was good, so you do not have to worry about it if you are considering the Kindle version.

In my experience in church leadership this book illustrates so clearly what it takes to become a missional church. Great book and required reading for anyone serving in missions.

The service was good, the book arrived in excellent condition, in a good time frame. Thanks