Northview Church hired Jim Tomberlin from MultiSite Solutions as a consultant to help us grow our multisite understanding and strategy as we added our third campus. Not only did he bring a depth of knowledge, insight and wisdom but he also helped to bring clarity to our strategy which will keep us healthy and growing well into the future. Jim brought to our team a pastor’s heart with a ...
I have been in church buildings every week of my entire adult life. I have served four churches in my three decades of being a pastor. I have rented, constructed and renovated church facilities in every one of the churches I served. For the past ten years I have consulted hundreds of churches that have rented, constructed and renovated church facilities. I have partnered with church ...
Thank you for your book “Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work.” Last year it played a key role in the church I was leading NOT to merge with one church but TO merge with another one and as a result things could not have gone better! The vision and guidelines in your book was extremely valuable! May God continue to bless your ministry. John Angle, Family Pastor Waterfront ...
“Jim Tomberlin is far and away the most knowledgeable person I know in the multisite church arena. As Director of the Strategic Partner program at North Point Ministries, I continually leaned on Jim for advice and counsel. He has consistently been a trusted source of wisdom and of helpful information regarding how other churches solved the very same problems we have encountered. Any church ...
Why a book on church mergers? My first merger experience occurred when I was leading point on the multisite strategy at Willow Creek Community Church in the Chicago area. I was looking for a facility to launch our third multisite campus in the North Shore region of Chicago. A church was meeting in a school that we had investigated as a potential site. The congregation ...
Get a preview of chapter 1 of the book “Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work” by Jim Tomberlin and Warren Bird. Find out more ...
Last year I published “125 Tips for MultiSite Churches—and those who want to be” to help guide church leaders through the decision-making and implementation process of going multisite. Now it is available on Amazon-Kindle. My purpose for this eBook is to share tips to help you navigate the new waters of multisite world. And for those of you who have been doing multisite for some time now, ...
Thousands of Protestant churches are perplexed by plateaued or declining attendance, while other congregations nearby thrive. Is there a way for them to combine forces, drawing on both their strengths, in ways that also increase their missional impact? Church merger consultant Jim Tomberlin, with co-writer Warren Bird, makes the case that mergers today work best not with two struggling churches ...
“Jim is one of the country’s leading thinkers on the multi-site movement. God used him for years as a multi-site pioneer and now Jim offers his wisdom to help others reach more people for Christ. Jim has spoken powerful leadership principles into my life as well as supporting me as a friend.” Craig ...
“Today Willow Creek has four vibrant regional campuses thanks to the vision, strategy and leadership of Jim Tomberlin. Jim took a tiny seed of an idea and persistently saw it grow into a wonderful, life giving reality. Every weekend over 5,000 people are exposed to the message of Christ at one of our multi-site venues. Those folks, and the leadership of Willow, will forever be grateful for ...
