April 2, 2008 == MEDIA ADVISORY
Summary: A new book by a Chicago-area minister and a Calvin College communication professor offers advice for suburban churches seeking to practice authentic ministry.
Full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2007-08/suburban-church.htm
A new book by a Chicago-area minister and a Calvin College communication professor offers advice for suburban churches seeking to practice authentic ministry.
Calvin's Quentin Schultze and former Christ Church of Oak Brook pastor Arthur DeKruyter wrote The Suburban Church: Practical Advice for Authentic Ministry in the face of seeker-oriented suburban churches that they worry will not be able to sustain either spiritual or numerical growth.
Suburban churches, the authors say, need to nurture finders rather than merely attract seekers. The authors note in the 168-page book that half of all North Americans live in the suburbs. In light of that statistic they want to encourage Christians to go where the people congregate and their book includes advice on how to plant, grow and renew suburban congregations.
Each chapter concludes with questions for discussion, making the book ideal, said Schultze, for pastors and church committees. DeKruyter spent almost 50 years in pastoral ministry in suburban Chicago.
Contact Schultze at schu@calvin.edu or 616-526-6290
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