Ed Stetzer has planted churches in New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia and transitioned declining churches in Indiana and Georgia. He has trained pastors and church planters on five continents, holds two masters degrees and two doctorates, and has written dozens of articles and books. Ed served for three years as a seminary professor at the Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and has taught at fifteen other seminaries.  He is currently the Director of Lifeway Research and Lifeway’s Missiologist in Residence.

He has written the following books:

·        Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age (2003),

·        Perimeters of Light: Biblical Boundaries for the Emerging Church (w/ Elmer Towns, 2004),

·        Strategic Outreach (with Eric Ramsey, 2005),

·        Breaking the Missional Code (w/ David Putman, 2006),

·        Planting Missional Churches (2006),

·        Comeback Churches (with Mike Dodson, 2007),

·        11 Innovations in the Local Church (with Elmer Towns and Warren Bird, 2007),