Digital networks and training resources
“Lay-Driven Team Training”
A manual for helping lay leaders start churches, by Bruce Redmond, EFCA church-planting director for the Southeast District. Email the author for a copy.
Forge Network
Training men and women to be missionaries where they are already doing life
Missional Church Network
Offering webinars, bivocational cohorts and the annual BiVO National Conference
Tampa Underground
A community of microchurches in the Tampa Bay area committed to small, missional communities with gospel impact
Books
Big Is Small, Slow Is Fast: Living & leading your family & community on God’s mission, by Caesar Kalinowski
BiVO: A modern-day guide for bivocational saints, by Hugh Halter
Brothers We Are Not Professionals: A plea to pastors for radical ministry, by John Piper
Everyday Church: Gospel communities on mission, by Chester & Timmis
Extreme Devotion: The voice of the martyrs
Fascinating People of the Bible: Your inspirational and entertaining guide to the famous, not-so-famous, and infamous characters of Scripture, by Christopher D. Hudson with David Barrett and Benjamin D. Irwin (wealth of bivo-type characters)
Funding Your Ministry: An in-depth, biblical guide for successfully raising personal support, by Scott Morton
Global Church Planting: Biblical principles and best practices for multiplication, by Craig Ott & Gene Wilson
Intimacy With God: Drawing ever closer to the Almighty, by Benjamin A. Sawatsky
Organic Church: Growing faith where life happens, by Neil Cole
The Pastor’s Guide to Fruitful Work and Economic Wisdom: Understanding what your people do all day, by Drew Cleveland and Greg Forster (editors)
Reflections of a Small Town Pastor: Engaging in God’s mission in smaller places, by Lee J. Smith
The Treasure Principle: Unlocking the secret of joyful giving, by Randy Alcorn
When Helping Hurts: How to alleviate poverty without hurting the poor… and yourself, by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert