God is up to something. Can you feel the shift? The time has come to start building – renewing – inventing. The Spirit is moving in the Church, and you need to be a part of it! Come find out how at the largest gathering of progressive church leaders on the planet - the 2012 National Church Leadership Institute: Praxis21 Conference.
Social networking is not a trend - it is here to stay. Come to one of our Social Media Boot Camps and learn how your church can use Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites to get your name out and grow your membership. 
CPR is teaching in seminaries! Join us for courses in church planting and renewal at Brite Seminary, Chicago Theological School and Pacific School of Religion. These courses are 1.5 and 3 hour credit courses covering the practical information you need to know to successfully start or renew a church. If you don't need seminary credit - no worries! Come as a general particpant and get continuing education credit. 
God is up to something. Can you feel the shift? The time has come to start building – renewing – inventing. The Spirit is moving in the Church, and you need to be a part of it! Come find out how at the largest gathering of progressive church leaders on the planet - the 2011 New Church Leadership Institute: The Seven Secrets Conference.
Rev. Janice Steele is the Founder and Pastor of Imani [Imani means faith in Swahili] Community United Church of Christ, a new congregation in Midtown, the heart of Sacramento, CA. Her ministry began with a love for music and the performing arts. Today Imani is a vibrant congregation spreading the gospel of love and inclusion.
Open Table is a caring community of faith that seeks to follow in the hopeful ways of Jesus. Our commitments to peace and justice in the world and spiritual growth in our own lives are interrelated and reinforcing. Our diverse members include people unafraid of difficult questions, folks who gave up on “church” a long time ago, individuals hungering for healthy spiritual practices, thinkers who distrust literalist and excluding interpretations of the Bible, and those who hunger for a more expansive vision of God.
Just as elephants give brith to elephants, we believe that churches should give birth to churches. Download this free manual to learn how...
Download this article about WHY you should be using Facebook to grow your ministry and HOW you can start a social networking campaign for your church.
Fail to plan - plan to fail. Download this booklet on how to write a straetgic plan for starting a new church or growing your church. 
The Hyphenateds: How Emergence Christianity is Re-Traditioning the Mainline Church
Can emergence Christianity help established denominations understand that radical transformation means more than a new worship service? When hearing complaints that church is irrelevant, can mainliners understand that reclaiming relevancy means more than changing meeting locations from church buildings to coffee shops? Yes, say the writers of The Hyphenateds, as they show you how they've done it.
Though the emergent church was once viewed as a fringe movement with little to offer established congregations, it is now seen as one of the central driving forces shaping the future of postmodern Christianity in North America. As an increasing number of mainline communities wonder how emergence Christianity influences their own structures and practices, this book brings together the perspectives of several of the most prominent Hyphenated Christians, i.e. those with one foot in the emergent conversation and the other foot in the mainline church: Presbymergents, Anglimergents, Luthermergents, Methomergents, and so on. With a passion for both mainline traditions and emergence Christianity, Hyphenateds offer a vibrant and contagious vision of the ways in which the church might undergo the transformation necessary to faithfully embody the love of Christ in the midst of an ever-changing postmodern world.
Phil Snider is an award-winning author and speaker who focuses on the intersections of religion and postmodernism in relationship to community practices and traditions. His books include Toward a Hopeful Future (winner of the 2011 Mayflower Award), and The Hyphenateds. He is senior pastor of Brentwood Christian Church in Springfield, MO.
Carol Howard Merritt is a pastor at Western Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., the award-winning author of Tribal Church (Alban Institute, 2007) and Reframing Hope (Alban Institute, 2010), and the Co-Host of the God Complex Radio podcast. Carol leads conferences nationally and internationally on cultural shifts and religion.
