I have given you denomination, website, and attendance if I could find the data.
Anderson, Leith. Dying for Change. Bethany House Publishers, 1998.
________________. Leadership That Works: Hope and Direction for Church and Parachurch Leaders in Today’s Complex World. Bethany House Publishers, 2002.
http://www.wooddale.org/ Wooddale Church; non-denominational but is associated with Baptist General Conference; Minnesota; 4000 attendance; six daughter churches.
Bell, Rob. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.
http://www.mhbcmi.org/findex.html Mars Hill Bible Church. Non-denominational; Michigan. 10,000 attendance. Emergent.
Bisagno, John R. Letters to Timothy: A Handbook for Pastors. Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2001.
http://www.houstonsfirst.org/ Houston’s First Baptist Church. Retired in 2000. 8,000 attendance.
Cladis, George. Leading the Team-Based Church: How Pastors and Church Staffs Can Grow Together into a Powerful Fellowship of Leaders. Jossey-Bass, 1999.
Former pastor at http://www.westminster-okc.org/index2.html and http://www.norotonchurch.org/ Medium sized PCUSA churches.
Cole, Neil. Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens. Jossey-Bass, 2005.
http://www.cmaresources.org/ Church Multiplication Associates. Founder of Awakening Chapels – house churches targeting younger people in urban settings.
Cymbala, Jim with Stephen Sorenson. The Church God Blesses. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002.
Brooklyn. Brooklyn Tabernacle. 10,000 attendance. http://www.brooklyntabernacle.org/ Non-denom.
Driscoll, Mark. The Radical Reformission : Reaching Out without Selling Out. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004.
________________. Confessions of a Reformission Rev: Hard Lessons From an Emerging Missional Church. Zondervan, 2006.
Mars Hill Church, Seattle. http://www.marshillchurch.org/ Acts 29 church planting network. http://www.acts29network.org/ Emergent. Non-denominational roots with PCA theology.
Frazee, Randy. The Connecting Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001.
Now a teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church. Was Senior Pastor at Pantego Bible Church in Fort Worth, Texas from 1990-2005. http://www.pantego.org/index.cfm Non-denom. Megachurch.
Hansen, David. The Art of Pastoring: Ministry Without All the Answers. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1994.
http://www.kenwoodbaptist.com/index.html Kenwood Baptist Church. American Baptist. Cincinnati, OH. Attendance 500.
Hull, Bill. The Disciple Making Pastor. Grand Rapids: Fleming H. Revell, 1988.
Was pastor in Evangelical Free Churches. Now works with http://www.tnetwork.com/index.htm
Hybels, Bill. Courageous Leadership. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002.
http://www.willowcreek.org/ Founding Pastor; South Barrington, IL. 17,500 attendance.
Kimball, Dan. The Emerging Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.
http://www.vintagefaith.com/ and blog: http://dankimball.typepad.com/ and Vintage Faith Church http://www.vintagechurch.org/ 400-500 attendance. Non-denom. Emergent.
Lewis, Robert with Rob Wilkins. The Church of Irresistible Influence. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001.
Lewis is former pastor of http://www.fbclr.org/ Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock, AK. Non-denom. 2,000 attendance.
Lewis, Robert and Wayne Cordeiro with Warren Bird. Culture Shift: Transforming Your Church from the Inside Out. Jossey-Bass, 2005.
Cordeiro is Senior Pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship O’ahu, a Foursquare church in Honolulu, Hawaii. http://www.enewhope.org/index.php 9,000 attendance.
Mallory, Sue. The Equipping Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001.
Executive Director of Group Publishing’s Church Volunteer Central. http://shop.grouppublishing.com/cvc/index.asp Was director of lay ministries at Brentwood Presbyterian Church http://www.bpcusa.org/index.asp PCUSA, 1200 members. Los Angeles.
McLaren, Brian. The Church on the Other Side. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.
Founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church http://www.crcc.org/ No longer Senior Pastor. Non-denom. Personal website: http://www.anewkindofchristian.com/ Maryland. Emergent.
McManus, Erwin Raphael. An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind. Group, 2001.
Personal website: http://www.erwinmcmanus.com/ Mosaic church http://www.mosaic.org/ Southern Baptist. Megachurch. Los Angeles. Emergent.
Mittelberg, Mark and Bill Hybels. Building a Contagious Church: Revolutionizing the Way We View and Do Evangelism. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000.
See Hybels above. Mittelberg is Executive Director of Evangelism for the Willow Creek Association. http://www.willowcreek.com/
Pagitt, Doug. Church Re-Imagined: The Spiritual Formation of People in Communities of Faith. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.
Personal blog: http://pagitt.typepad.com/ Solomon’s Porch: http://www.solomonsporch.com/index.html Minneapolis.
Peterson, Eugene H. Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987.
________________. The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction. Eerdmans, 1993.
Founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland. PCUSA; 300 attendance. Left in 1992 to be professor at Regent College.
Rusaw, Rick and Eric Swanson. The Externally Focused Church. Group, 2004.
Rusaw is Senior Minister at LifeBridge Christian Church in Longmont, Colorado. 3,000 attendance. Non-denom. http://www.lbcc.org/templates/cla23bl/default.asp?id=22545
Swanson worked with Campus Crusade for Christ for twenty-five years before moving to the Leadership Network. http://www.leadnet.org/
Scazzero, Peter with Warren Bird. The Emotionally Healthy Church: A Strategy for Discipleship That Actually Changes Lives. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.
Senior pastor at New Life Fellowship. http://www.newlifefellowship.org/ Queens, NY. Four other churches planted.
Stanley, Andy, Lane Jones and Reggie Joiner. The Seven Practices of Effective Ministry. Multnomah, 2004.
Stanley is pastor of http://www.northpoint.org/ North Point Community Church. 14,000 attendance. Georgia. Nondenom.
Stanley, Andy and Ed Young. Can We Do That? 24 Innovative Practices That Will Change the Way You Do Church. Howard, 2002.
Young is http://www.fellowshipchurch.com/fcweb/home.aspx 16,000 attendance; Grapevine, TX. Southern Baptist.
Stevens, Tim and Tony Morgan. Simply Strategic Stuff: Help for Leaders Drowning in the Details of Running a Church. Group, 2003.
Granger Community Church, Indiana. 4,300 attendance. http://www.gccwired.com/ United Methodist Church.
Taylor, Steve. The Out of Bounds Church? Learning to Create a Community of Faith in a Culture of Change. Zondervan, 2005.
Personal blog: http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/ Pastor of Opawa Baptist Church http://www.opawa.org.nz/ New Zealand. Medium-size.
Waltz, Mark L. First Impressions: Creating Wow Experiences In Your Church. Group, 2004.
See Granger Community Church under Stevens.
Warren, Rick. The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message & Mission. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995.
http://www.saddleback.com/flash/default.htm 15,000 attendance; California. Southern Baptist.
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Greetings to you in the most precious wonderful name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in whom we were redeemed by His precious blood and brought us unto the promise of eternal life .
We thank the Lord for your ministry, love and burden for the ministry. It is a great previlage to serve the Lord , it was not entrusted to the angles, but it was entrusted to us by His grace to be witness for Him in this darken world.
I am from India, my name is Emmanuel and my wife name is Ruthramani, we had two children and they are studying . our elder son name is Sanofiel and second one name is Joy Sam Johannan. The Lord had put a great zeal for the unsaved in our country. The Lord spoke from Hos. 10:12 “…… break up your fallow ground ……” in other words plough the ground and sow the seed. In obedience to His promise we are moving to preach the Gospel in the remote villages and also conducting children meetings by showing charts of Biblical lessons,
Missionary biographies, action songs etc., The Lord has given talents tous, my wife is talented with story telling, my children will play musical instruments, in this way we all glorify the Lord. It is a great previlage to serve Him. The Lord is taking us in so many situations to teach His precious lessons by way of opposition. Some time while we travel for outreach to other far places by bus, there will be no seats to sit and we have to travel hundreds of kilometers standing in the bus, sometimes waiting in darken nights in the bus stands. In all these situations, it is a great previlage to suffer for Him and learning us how to be patience with prayerfully preparing further for the power of the Lord into the fields of harvest. Recently we had visited a village and conducted children meetings for three days, about 100 children had attended, many of them confessed their sins and accepted the Loving Saviour Jesus into their hearts. Last day many had testified, some had told memory verses, some sang songs which they had learned. In this way the Lord had used us, a useless and worthless vessels for His glory. It is not we, who do but the Lord, who has empowered us to do everything by the prayer of His saints. Glory to God in everything.
Our goals are
1.to reach every village with the Gospel of Jesus Christ
2.to establish the congregations where there is no congregation
3.to train and equip the people to be witnesses and to share the Gospel to their neighbours
4.to share the social gospel to them that oppose the Christianity
5.to preach the Gospel among the children because children are prone to dangers of this worldy attractions which hinders them to attend the church. The age is such which make them to love the darkness rather than the Light (Jesus)
About India:
1. Born again christians are only 2 % out of 100 crore Total population
2. More than 50 % people never heard the name of Jesus
3. There are more than 5 lakh villages without the Gospel preachers
4. More than 55 thousand people die each day without the previlage to hear the Gospel to determine /choose the everlasting life before they kick their bucket.
Kindly pray for us and for the ministry in India and extend your hand for furtherance of the Gospel to the perishing souls in this land.please come over india and you can see the people starving and the harvest in india.please make a mission trip to india. With your extention of loving prayerful support hands we can move further in this great task of soul winning . we are praying for you please remember us in your daily prayers. 1 Thes. 5:25
We are waiting for your kind reply.
Yours in His eternal grace
p. emmanuel and Ruthramani.
Agape Gospel Outreach Team
Email: P_emmanuel@rediffmail.com