Entrepreneurial Faith : Launching Bold Initiatives to Expand God's Kingdom

Get in step with God’s entrepreneurial spirit.

Two of America’s most influential pastors have drawn up a compelling blueprint to help churches and individuals move out of the sanctuary and into the community. Kirbyjon Caldwell and Walt Kallestad explain how to create innovative partnerships that join the church’s passion for ministry with the expertise of the business community to meet physical and spiritual needs.

Through biblical teaching and case studies from churches of various sizes and in a variety of locales, the authors show that the life of faith is an adventure of risk-taking in ministry. Entrepreneurial Faith challenges pastors, lay leaders, and individual Christians to invest their skill and passion in practical expressions of ministry. The same principles provide a new avenue for community-minded professionals to partner with churches to bring needed services to the community.

With this book as a guide, you can stop being a spectator and start putting your faith to work by diving into the adventure of entrepreneurial ministry. Right now, right where you are, you can make a needed difference in a needy world.

Kirbyjon Caldwell pastors the largest United Methodist church in America, Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston. The church has helped establish a neighborhood complex that houses a clinic, a bank branch, and a community college business technology center, among other services. A mixed-income planned residential community is being built near the church. Caldwell graduated from Carleton College and Perkins School of Theology, and holds an MBA from Wharton. He has ministered to the nation through President George W. Bush’s inauguration and the nationally televised post-9/11 prayer service.

Walt Kallestad is senior pastor of the Community Church of Joy in suburban Phoenix. The church is part of a 200-acre campus with a development plan that includes a leadership center, a retirement center, and one of the most progressive teen ministries in the country. A graduate of Concordia College and Luther Seminary, he received his doctorate at Fuller Seminary. A popular speaker, Kallestad is the author of numerous books, including Turn Your Church Inside Out.

Paul Sorensen is president and CEO of Joy Leadership Center, which develops church leaders across the country through conferences, seminars, coaching, consulting, and a variety of resources.