Personal Ministry Mission Statement: Overflowing and emerging from a life "in Christ," my passion is: To discover where God is blessing North American churches with evangelism, health, and other spiritual breakthroughs, and then To create multiplication tools (books, videos, conferences, resource kits, etc.) that will enable additional church leaders to receive inspiration and guidance from their experiences. About Warren Bird: Warren Bird researches cutting-edge churches and works with their leaders to multiply their evangelistic and disciplemaking impact. An ordained minister for more than 20 years, he is on part-time staff at Princeton (N.J.) Alliance Church, an innovative church with a worship attendance approaching 2,000. Previous pastoral experience includes leading a C&MA church-planting team from 1987 to 1991. He also serves as a guest lecturer at three seminaries. A winner of the prestigious Gold Medallion Award (the top honor given by the international trade association for Christian publishers), Warren has edited or co-authored 14 books. He has also contributed collaborative chapters or sections to 4 books. He has published more than 100 magazine articles, such as a 1994 cover story in Christianity Today on small groups. He has served on advisory boards for several magazines and several book projects. Warren is currently working toward a Ph.D. in sociology of religion. He is an honors graduate of Wheaton College and Wheaton Graduate School, Wheaton, Ill. (B.A., M.A.) and Alliance Theological Seminary, Nyack, N.Y. (M.Div.). He has been licensed with The Christian and Missionary Alliance Metropolitan District since 1986. From 1991 to 1995, Warren served on Carl George's senior management team of the Pasadena-based Charles E. Fuller Institute of Evangelism and Church Growth. His responsibilities included visiting, interviewing, researching, and profiling many of the largest, fastest-growing, or newest churches in North America. In more recent years, he has done similar research and development for the Canadian-based International Leadership Centre - Willow Creek Canada led by John Baergen, and for the Asbury Theological Seminary-based Beeson Institute for Advanced Church Leadership headed by Dale Galloway. Warren and his wife Michelle have been married for more than 20 years. They have two children and they live in a suburb of New York City. www.warrenbird.com