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Leadership Network NewsZondervan Forms Publishing Partnership with Leadership Network and Exponential Network GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., January, 2010—Zondervan, the leading Christian publishing brand, is proud to announce a partnership with Leadership Network and Exponential Network to develop a new line of books for multiplying church leaders called the “Exponential Series.” Exponential Network has partnered with Zondervan Publishing and Leadership Network to champion a Signature book series on church planting. Zondervan will publish two to three “Exponential” books per year. Each title will tell the reproducing church story, celebrate the diversity of models and approaches God is using to reproduce healthy congregations, and highlight the innovative practices of healthy reproducing churches. The interest in church planting is growing significantly in recent years. The need for new churches has never been greater. At the same time, the number of models and approaches are expanding. To date, most books written on church planting have been in isolation from one another. The Exponential Series will help bring increased national visibility on church planting and help shape and focus the content that is developed and published. “In forging this partnership with Zondervan and Leadership Network,” says Todd Wilson, Director of the Exponential Network, “we seek to champion and highlight a broad range of models and approaches with the unifying theme of seeing a movement of healthy new churches regardless of their affiliation. Exponential is uniquely positioned to provide a national voice and advocacy of church planting. We are relationally connected to an extensive and growing network of the most influential church planting leaders.” While the “Exponential Series” marks a new venture, the Zondervan/Leadership Network relationship goes back many years. Zondervan and Leadership Network formed a publishing partnership in 2004 with the successful Leadership Network Innovation Series. The Innovation Series provides high-capacity Church leaders with real stories, innovative ideas and transferrable truths. “Our publishing partnership with Exponential is a natural extension of our organizational mission of accelerating the impact of 100X leaders. We are committed to leaders and ideas with potential for 100 fold impact and the authors and titles of the Exponential Book Series do just that,” comments Greg Ligon, Leadership Network Vice President and Publisher. Leadership Network, based in Dallas, Texas, is a nonprofit public charity that fosters church innovation and growth through a variety of programs, resources and strategies in furtherance of a far-reaching mission to accelerate the impact of 100X leaders. For more on Leadership Network, see www.leadnet.org and www.halftime.org Zondervan, a HarperCollins company, is a world leader in Christian communications and the leading Christian publishing brand. For more than 75 years, Zondervan has delivered transformational Christian experiences through general and academic resources by influential leaders and emerging voices, and been honored with more Christian Book Awards than any other publisher. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich., with offices in San Diego and Miami, Zondervan conducts events and publishes its bestselling Bibles, books, audio, video, curriculum, software, and digital products through its Zondervan, eZondervan, Zonderkidz, Youth Specialties, Editorial Vida, and National Pastors Convention brands. Zondervan resources are sold worldwide through retail stores, online, and by Zondervan ChurchSource, and are translated into nearly 200 languages in more than 60 countries. Visit Zondervan on the Internet at www.zondervan.com (mobile site: zvan.mobi).
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