Grow Where You're Planted: Collected Stories on the Hallmarks of Maturing Church

Missional communities, whatever form they take, face the challenge of growing up. But too often leaders either invest too little in ecclesial development, or they try to copy the growth metrics of other churches or communities that are “successful.” In Grow Where You’re Planted, the authors describe a set of hallmarks common to maturing churches that can be used by any missional community to discern their unique plan for growth. And the book is actually based around individual stories of how various Christian Associates’ projects and partner churches are each wrestling around a given hallmark to aid their own maturing. It takes discernment and intentionality to foster church health and maturing, and this book provides some rails on which those can ride to help missional communities grow up to be all that God intends them to be.

Dan Steigerwald resides in Portland, Oregon with his Canadian wife, Ann. For the past 17 years he has served in various leadership capacities with Christian Associates International, most recently as CA’s North America Director. He also operates as a certified leadership coach, and leads coaching teams with Bridges and with George Fox Seminary where he earned a Doctor of Ministry in Leadership in the Emerging Culture. Prior to his arrival in Portland in 2006, Dan spent over 20 years in Europe and various developing world contexts serving as a missionary, church-planter, and founding pastor of Crossroads International Church of The Hague. Kelly Crull is a church planter and writer. He has spent the last eleven years in Spain, and during that time has helped to start three churches in Madrid and initiate a national network of indigenous church planters. Currently he is an elder at a church called Decoupage, which is located in the neighborhood of Malasaña and has a focus on the arts. Kelly has been married to his wife April for thirteen years, and they have three small children. He is originally from the United States.