Dave Ferguson is the Lead Pastor of Community Christian Church, an innovative multi-site missional community that is passionate about helping people find their way back to God. Community Christian Church (CCC) has grown from Dave, his wife and four friends to more than 5,000 people meeting every weekend at nine locations. CCC empowers more than 600 volunteer leaders to oversee difference-making ministries throughout Chicago and was recently recognized as one of the most influential churches in America.

Dave provides visionary leadership for the NewThing Network, whose dream is to be a catalyst for a movement of reproducing churches. NewThing is a network of reproducing churches internationally and a resource to churches looking to reproduce to multiple sites or start new churches. Dave is also the co-founder and serves on the board of directors for the Institute for Community, which partners with real estate developers to accomplish their mission of helping people build quality relationships where you live and work through the power of genuine community.

Dave is the author of the newly released, The Big Idea: Focus the Message, Maximize the Impact along with Jon Ferguson and Eric Bramlett.

Next to Jesus, Dave loves his wife, Sue, the most and then his three terrific kids, Amy - 18, Joshua - 15 and Caleb - 10. Dave and his family live in Naperville, IL. Dave enjoys hanging out with his family, reading, running and playing any sport with a ball. If you want to keep up with Dave's adventures check out his:

blog: daveferguson.org
church: community christian church
network: newthing

THE NINES was a one day event held on 09/09/09. Leadership Network asked over 75 leaders, "If you had just nine minutes to share with church leaders, what would you tell them?" This was Dave Ferguson's response...