Vision Inspired Leadership: Lessons Learned About Leadership

Vision Inspired Leadership is a study of leadership wrapped around the planting of thirteen new churches over seventeen years. Through a series of real life stories, the author unfolds insightful lessons of leadership that have application in church life and other venues, including fulfilling a person's life mission. The lessons of leadership are practical and people oriented. This very readable book details the story of a young pastor who inspired people to reach new goals and experiences of faith in their Christian lives. This story touches people where they live by creating an excitement for a captivating vision to expend their horizons. Prominent author Warren W. Wiersbe says in the foreword, 'As I read the manuscript, I laughed, I wept and I searched my own heart.'

Tom Younger is a graduate of Taylor University, Fort Wayne, Indiana and Baptist Seminary, Johnson City, New York. He has ministered five years in Arcanum, Ohio, followed by seventeen years at Immanuel Baptist Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he planted twelve new churches using his vision inspired leadership insights. He later pastured at First Baptist Church, Walnut Creek, California, and Lakewood Park Baptist Church, Auburn, Indiana. He has also served as President of Western Baptist College, Salem, Oregon, and as a Trustee of Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio. Tom lives in Salem Oregon, with Davina, his wife of fifty-three years. The leadership lessons he has written about in Vision Inspired Leadership can stimulate church growth anywhere.