Joseph R. Myers is an entrepreneur, speaker, writer, and owner of FrontPorch, a consulting firm that helps churches, businesses, and other organizations promote and develop community. Author of The Search to Belong, Myers is also a founding partner of the communications arts group settingPace, based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Joe did an interview for Harvest TV recently. You can watch it here:
Todd Hiestand, pastor at The Well in Feasterville, PA asks a good question in response to a church’s plan to get everyone in …
I have been wrestling with “Spiritual Formation.”
What is it? Can it be accomplished? How?
Spiritual practices seem so empty at times.
I have been led to …
Will Samson has posted a review of Joe’s newest book “Organic Community” on his blog. He writes,
“Organic Community by Joe Myers is …
If I only had a purpose…
I’m driven. Ask anyone who knows me I have am italic bent to my life.
But, do I have a purpose? …
"Once again, Myers hits a home run. Written in personable fashion and with highly informed common sense, Organic Community calls us all - church and congregants alike - to honesty about our goals and then offers us sophisticated, efficacious, and grace-filled ways to realize them."
- Phyllis Tickle, contributing editor in religion, Publishers Weekly
"Looking back on twenty-four years of church planting and pastoral ministry, I wish I had thoroughly digested Organic Community before I got started. It would have saved so much wasted energy - mine, and those whose lives I foolishly tried to 'master plan.' This is a book I will reread and widely recommend."
- Brian McLaren, author
"For 20+ years I have been encouraging church leaders to start small groups as the answer to community. It was a sociological given that churchgoers wanted relationship. However, almost every small group pastor I have known has pulled their hair out trying to get parishioners to attend a group. What's up with this inconsistency?
Joe Myers will guide you to a simple, but useful way to help people connect, to understand their own confusion and to build community. By necessity you'll have to work your way though some introductory work, but read on, you will be rewarded. The way people connect is changing at X-games speeds; the leadership necessary to keep up will require the kinds of insights provided by The Search to Belong.
- Todd Hunter
Joe Myers brings a message for the Christian Education Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas.