The High Impact Church: A Fresh Approach to Reaching the Unchurched

The cities of the world are desperately in need of churches that are Christ centered, spiritually vital, biblically based, grace oriented, outreach focused, small group structured, and culturally relevantthat is, "high-impact" churches. The High-Impact Church presents an approach to the church that is both solidly biblical as well as contemporary and practical. Developed out of the authors extensive experience in church planting and church development in Europe and the U.S., the principles of the book are adaptable to a wide variety of cultural contexts.

Dr. Linus Morris has co-founded and pastored two churches in Europe and has been involved in evangelism, church planting and pastoral ministry for the past 34 years in Canada, Europe, the U.S. and the former Soviet Union.

Dr. Morris is the President of Christian Associates International a church planting organization that establishes contemporary, high-impact churches in major cities and trains others in the principles and strategy of the high-impact church.

The vision of CAI is to see entire cities brought into a genuine encounter with Christ- for every man, woman and child to have an opportunity to hear the gospel message and see it dynamically expressed through loving bodies of believers. Though short- and long-term teams, works are underway in a number of cities including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Geneva, The Hague, Lisbon, Moscow, Paris, Riga, Zagreb and Zurich.

Dr. Morris holds a M.C.S from Regent College in Vancouver, Canada and M.Div. and D.Min. degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He has also studied at LAbri Christian Fellowship in Huemoz, Swizerland and has lived for four years in France and five years in Holland.

Married with six children, Linus and his wife Sharon reside in Southern California.