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From the Staff From the Staff
Podcast: Productive Learning on the Run
As a consultant with the Center for Congregations, I travel a good bit. Sometimes I spend...
From the Staff From the Staff
The Unique Experience of Church Planting
Church planting is different than establishing satellites, multi-sites, a new worship service or...
article
Finding the Right Church Plant Model
This article introduces and describes five church-planting models.
web resource
The Association of Religion Data Archives
This web resource, provided by the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA), is the best...
organization
Converge
This organization provides coaching and assessments to help leaders plant new churches.

Contributor

Contributor
Tim Shapiro

Tim Shapiro is the Indianapolis Center’s president. He began serving the Center in 2003 after 18 years in pastoral ministry. For 14 years, Tim served Westminster Presbyterian Church in Xenia, Ohio. Prior to his pastorate at Westminster, he was pastor of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Logansport, Indiana. He holds degrees from Purdue University and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Tim’s interest in how congregations learn to do new things is represented in his book How Your Congregation LearnsAfter his extensive work on the Center’s Sacred Space initiative, Tim co-authored the book Holy Places: Matching Sacred Space with Mission and MessageHe has also authored several articles, including Applying Positive Deviance and The Congregation of Theological Coherence.

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