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Welcome to the Keri New Half Leadership Podcast.

It's Keri here and I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership.

Man, I'm excited because, well, we're going right into the field today.

I know a lot of you either work at churches or support churches.

And so we're talking about all things church planting today with JJ Vasquez and Warren Bird.

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Well, Warren Bird reached out. He's always doing some fascinating research.

He is currently the senior vice president for research at ECFA, the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.

He is the author or co-author of 34 books, including two that I wrote the forward to,

how to break church growth barriers by Carl George and Warren Bird and liquid church,

six powerful currents to saturate your church and your city for Christ.

By Tim Lucas and Warren Bird, so I'm very excited to have Warren back.

And he has forgotten more data than most of us will ever know in our lifetime.

So he's doing some research on church planting and brings the details about how all that has changed.

And Warren and I thought it would be fun to do this interview with an actual church planter who's had some great experience.

So in 2014, Pastor JJ and Liz Vasquez planted a church called Journey Church in the heart of Winter Park, Florida.

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