In this episode, I'm joined by Suffolk, Virginia church planter David Sexton. As his church plant anticipates its seventeenth anniversary this year, he shares how it was becoming increasingly shallow as a result of his failure to delegate—something he's only just recently learned to do.

At minute [8:12] David references the Neppls, church planters they've sent out of their own church plant.

At minute [24:19] he talks about an EF-3 tornado that hit Suffolk on April 28, 2008. I found this retrospective marking the fifteenth anniversary.

At minute [30:11] David recommends a couple of Nelson Searcy's books, Launch and Fusion.*

At minute [30:46] he recommends a couple of Larry Osborne's books, Sticky Church and Sticky Teams.*

At minute [31:00] he references a two more books: 101 Ways to Reach Your Community by Steve Sjogren and Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century by Aubrey Malphurs.*

And at minute [41:20] David begins talking about their Dream Teams, a pattern he based on Church of the Highlands.

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