From Actual Costs to Best Models

What practical insights and trends could research on 3,000 church planters and campus pastors offer? Learn as findings from ECFA’s historic and groundbreaking research are unveiled along five themes: 1) Funding: What does it cost to launch a new church or campus?  2) Ethnicity: What are the positive impacts of multi-ethnicity in new churches? 3) Covid: Did the pandemic change the future of church plants or multisite campuses? 4) Multiplication/Replication: What are the best predictors of a church’s ability to multiply itself?  5) Models: How do church planting and multisite campus launches differ?

Joining David Fletcher is Warren Bird, Ph.D., senior vice president of research at ECFA, the co-author of 34 books for ministry leaders including books on church planting, Viral Churches: When Church Planters Become Movement Makers and on multisite churches, Multisite Church Road Trip.

About Warren

Warren Bird is the Senior Vice President for Research and Equipping at the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. Warren is an award-winning writer and researcher. His background includes pastoring and seminary teaching, and a 13-year run as research director at Leadership Network. Warren has authored or co-authored 30 books including Hero Maker with Dave Ferguson, How to Break Growth Barriers with Carl George and Unleashing the Word with Max McLean.

Warren is a graduate of Wheaton College (BA, MA), Alliance Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and Fordham University (Ph.D.). He and his college sweetheart wife Michelle live in Metro New York City.