Hero Maker

In Hero Maker you will learn how to bring real change to your church and community by developing the practical skills to help others reach their leadership potential.

Drawing on five powerful practices found in the ministry of Jesus, Hero Maker presents the key steps of apprenticeship that will build up other leaders and provides strategies for how you can activate gifts, help others take ownership, and develop a simple scorecard for measuring your kingdom-building progress.

Besides rich insights from the Gospels, Hero Maker is packed with real-life ministry stories ranging from paid staff to volunteer leaders and from established churches to new church plants. A practical tool accompanies each of the five practices, with several illustrations for how to use it.

Whether you lead ten people or ten thousand, Hero Maker will not only help you maximize your leadership, but in doing so you will also help shift today’s church culture to a model of reproduction and multiplication. Authors Dave Ferguson (a Chicago pastor and church planter) and Warren Bird (an award-winning writer) make a compelling case that God’s power and purpose are best revealed when we train and release others, who in turn do likewise.

Become that rare breed of leader who brings change into our world by sacrificially investing in others who become the heroes. By becoming a hero maker, you will join a movement of influencers that are impacting hundreds, thousands and perhaps millions of people around the world.

Dave Ferguson
Dave Ferguson is the CEO / President and co-founder for Exponential. He is also the lead pastor of Community Christian Church, an innovative multi-site missional community that is passionate about "helping people find their way back to God." Community has grown from a few college friends to thousands every weekend meeting at multiple locations in the Chicago area and has been recognized as one of America's most influential churches. Dave provides visionary leadership for NewThing, a global movement of multiplying churches.  He is an award-winning author of eight books, including Hero Maker: 5 Essential Practices for Leaders to Multiply Leaders. Dave and his wife, Sue, live in Naperville IL. They have three adult children - Amy, Joshua and Caleb.
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Warren Bird
Warren Bird, Ph.D. is author/co-author of 34 books including Hero Maker (theme book of the year for Exponential 2020) and Better Together Healthy Mergers (the leading guidebook on how to do a merger well). His latest co-authored book is on 8 big trends that all churches will face: Becoming a Future-Ready Church. He is one of the nation’s most widely quoted researchers about the health and growth of today’s church, cited by both mainstream and Christian media. He’s written the “Leadership from the Global Church” column for Outreach magazine since 2014. Warren serves as senior vice president of research and equipping for ECFA (the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability), where he oversaw the nation’s largest-ever cross-denominational study of church planters, “The New Faces of Church Planting and Multisiting” (ECFA.org/surveys).
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