“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 ...
“We brought Jim alongside to help us design a workable multi-site concept for Granger. We were looking for something that was economical, scalable, and reproducible. There are several reasons Jim was a great fit for us… – Jim is a practitioner. He’s been a lead pastor. He’s been pastoral staff member. He’s been in small and large churches. He was a pioneer in the multi-site ...
“Jim worked closely with our leadership team in planning and launching our second campus. Furthermore, his insight and assistance was invaluable when we merged our congregation with another, thereby forming a new, five-thousand member church on two thriving campuses. I highly recommend his ministry to anyone longing to impact their community with measurable Kingdom results!” Dr. Terry ...
“Jim Tomberlin did more for us in a half day than we accomplished in a year on the topic of Multi-Campus Ministry. He helped us ask the right questions, gave new insights, and provided fresh ideas from his work with dozens of the best Multi-Campus Ministry models.” Dr. Dan Reiland 12Stone Church, Lawrenceville, ...
