Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work - Expanded and Updated

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?In Better Together, Expanded and Updated: Making Church Mergers Work, church merger consultant Jim Tomberlin and award- winning writer Warren Bird make the case that mergers today work best not with two struggling churches but with a vital, momentum-filled lead church partnering with a joining church.

This much-needed resource describes the range of mergers for strong, stable, stuck, and struggling churches.