Bob Roberts Jr.: The Multiplying Church: The New Math for Starting New Churches
Alan Hirsch: The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church
Rick Richardson: Reimagining Evangelism: Inviting Friends on a Spiritual Journey
Michael Frost: The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church
Dave Ferguson is a Lead Pastor and Spiritual Entrepreneur with Community Christian Church and the NewThing Network.
Dave Ferguson and four friends from college launched Community Christian Church, a church that is passionate about “helping people find their way back to God”. This church has grown to 600+ leaders with more than 5,000 in attendance at eight sites every weekend throughout Chicagoland. Dave serves as a resource for other churches and leaders seeking to expand through multiple church sites and provides visionary leadership for the NewThing Network, a catalyst for a movement of reproducing churches. He is also the co-founder and serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Community who partner with real estate developers to accomplish their mission of "helping people build quality relationship where they live and work through the power of genunine commmunity". In February, 2007 Dave authored his first book with Zondervan, The Big Idea: Focus The Message, Multiply The Impact.