Press Release | January 5, 2009

Group Publishing issued the following press release yesterday:

Pastor Mark Waltz Challenges Churches to Leave "Lasting Impressions"

When new people visit your church, it's a big deal. When they come back, it's an even bigger deal. Author and Pastor Mark Waltz has written a follow up book to his popular book, "First Impressions". His new book, "Lasting Impressions", explains how to create a Church culture of belonging.

(PRWEB) January 5, 2009 -- Group Publishing and Church Volunteer Central are pleased to announce the release of Mark Waltz' transformational new resource for equipping ministry: "Lasting Impressions".

"Lasting Impressions" provides a vision and a blueprint for helping people move from simply visiting a church, to belonging to a church. Or as Waltz puts it, "We want to see people hang around the church long enough to experience how much they matter to God."

We want to see people hang around the church long enough to experience how much they matter to God.

Read this book and remember again why we all got into this thing called church in the first place!

It's a vision that might change you, your church, and people who don't even know God right now. Read it and be impressed.

A follow-up to Waltz' overwhelmingly popular book, "First Impressions", this new title hit the top 50 in the "Ministry" category on Amazon.com within one week of it's release.

Ideal for pastors and ministry leaders, "Lasting Impressions" provides sound biblical advice, practical strategies for highest impact, and relevant, doable ideas that can be used in any denomination, with any size congregation. Noted pastor and author, Ed Young, advises, "Read this book and remember again why we all got into this thing called church in the first place!"

John Ortberg, bestselling author and pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, is also a fan of "Lasting Impressions". He raves, "It's a vision that might change you, your church, and people who don't even know God right now. Read it and be impressed."

"Lasting Impressions" is available wherever Christian books are sold, and online from booksellers such as Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. Readers may also order "Lasting Impressions" directly from the publisher at: www.GroupPublishing.com.

A division of Group Publishing, Inc., Church Volunteer Central is the world's largest provider of volunteer solutions, giving member churches all the tools needed to recruit, equip, retain, lead, and protect unpaid workers involved in ministry efforts. For more information, please see: www.ChurchVolunteerCentral.com.

Media: To request a review copy of "Lasting Impressions", or to schedule an interview with Mark Waltz, please email your request to Roger Heins at: RHeins (at) group (dot) com

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Contact:
Roger Heins, Sr. Marketing Manager
RHeins (at) group (dot) com
Telephone: 970.292.4663

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