Back from the Dead Speaking to the crisis of

Speaking to the crisis of faith faced by his church

and find little satisfaction or peacefulness in either

Rodney Clapp

The Episcopal Church has recognized that planting new churches is a high priority through the Mission Enterprise Zones initiative

relationships with authority figures

Back from the Dead Speaking to the crisis ofAlmost everywhere throughout the greater church are unsustainable trends endowments are being depleted, building maintenance deferred, congregations are aging and dwindling, and budgets are too far out of whack. And although there is much literature on what to do to grow congregations, little has been said about how to get those things done. In highly accessible, anecdotal prose, church management expert Gerald Keucher focuses in very practical terms