Contents:Reality-based sermons: a Catholic perspective / Patrick Brennan -- Reality-based sermons: a Protestant perspective / Bill Elder -- The stewardship way of life / Thomas McGread -- Retreat--and then advance / Marik Beckwith -- Rural churches as missionary outposts / Bill Geis -- Simple ways to spread the faith / Clara Stang -- Sanctifying the neighborhood: inserting a church into the community / Mark Beckwith -- Evangelizing the marginalized--and ourselves / Valerie Chapman -- Making disciples--then what? Training for the newly involved/converted / Arturo Bañuelas -- The care and training of lay leaders / Dawn Mayer -- Creating a collaborative culture / Patricia Farris -- Psychological profile of the effective pastor/lay minister / Donald Cozzens -- Partnering / Bill Geis -- One pastor, thousands of congregants: new roles for priests and lay people / Arturo Bañuelas -- One pastor, thousands of congregants: creative chaos and the evangelism of contagion / Patrick Brennan -- As a church changes: a Protestant perspective / Mark Beckwith -- As a church changes: a Catholic perspective / Walter Cuenin -- Church planting: finding islands of hope / Duane Arledge -- Reaching bikers: church in the wind / Gary Davis -- Seeker-sensitive Catholic parishes / Patrick Brennan -- How to "seekerize" your church / Bill Elder -- Connecting postmoderns / Warehouse 242 staff team -- The power of commitment: it can happen anywhere / Marjory Zoet Bankson.