My friend Ed Delph is a catalyst for positive change, an inspiration
to international Christian leaders, and a visionary who
spends himself tirelessly in order to promote the growth and
health of the whole church in the whole world.
—JOHN DAWSON, PRESIDENT
YOUTH WITH A MISSION
 

Church@Community is just what is needed to create an engagement
with culture and society that is not accidental but purposeful.
Everyone engages with culture; some are shaped by its values,
others mindlessly enjoy, or put up with it. This book will teach
you the value of serving and blessing rather than simply criticizing—
analyzing the darkness. We Christians are good at that.
This will help us shine our lights much brighter.
—GERALD COATES
DIRECTOR, PIONEER NETWORK OF CHURCHES
LONDON, ENGLAND
 

Since I first met Ed Delph at a conference several years ago, I
have come to love him and to appreciate his expansive vision for
the Lord’s work all around the world. This book points beyond
the “clergyfication” of Christianity toward the kind of congregational
and community renewal the Holy Spirit is leading the
church to embrace today. There is high octane fuel here, so use
wisely. But use!
—TIMOTHY GEORGE
DEAN, BEASON DIVINITY SCHOOL, SAMFORD UNIVERSITY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CHRISTIANITY TODAY
 

Ed Delph’s Church@Community is a priceless reminder that we
have to change our thinking before we can change our community.
These words are not just the keen insights of a leading strategist
in transformation; they are a creative and prophetic challenge
to a new generation of leaders to rewrite the old playbooks
and release a greater expression of Jesus in the earth. Thanks, Ed,
for this helpful and inspiring message.
—DAVID CANNISTRACI
SR. PASTOR OF GATEWAY CITY CHURCH, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
 
 

Church@Community will revolutionize old traditional thinking
concerning the purpose of the local church and its relationship
to its surrounding community. This book will help church leaders
to properly teach people to be the salt of the earth, the light of
the world, and the witness of Jesus Christ. Dr. Ed Delph brings a
new apostolic kingdom of God concept that is especially relevant
to what the Holy Spirit is saying to the church today.
Dr. Ed Delph is challenging the church to change from thinking
that the community is for the church to thinking that the
church is for the community. This is a paradigm shift that can
revolutionize the way the church impacts our cities and nations.
God bless you, Ed, for giving us the concepts that align us with
God’s present truth and challenge for our generation to establish
God’s kingdom in our community.
—DR. BILL HAMON
CHAIRMAN, FOUNDER, AND BISHOP OF
CHRISTIAN INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES NETWORK
FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN INTERNATIONAL APOSTOLIC NETWORK
AUTHOR OF THE ETERNAL CHURCH; PROPHETS AND PERSONAL
PROPHECY; PROPHETS AND THE PROPHETIC MOVEMENT;
PROPHETS, PITFALLS, AND PRINCIPLES; APOSTLES,
PROPHETS AND THE COMING MOVES OF GOD;
THE DAY OF THE SAINTS; WHO AM I AND WHY AM I HERE?
 

Church@Community has come at the right time in this stage of
the twenty-first-century church age and reformation. With great
biblical wisdom, Dr. Ed Delph presents us with a church in transition
from a denominational mindset to a kingdom mindset,
from a church growth concept to a community transformation
concept. This book will help you take the necessary steps to enter
into that process.
—DR. HECTOR P. TORRES
HISPANIC INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES
 

Church@Community burns with Ed’s passion to see the church
break out of the box. He keeps bringing us back to the irreducible
basics that will enable us to be effective in the real world where
ordinary people live. He believes that the church really is God’s
secret weapon to bring about transformation to our cities and
nations at every level, in spite of our recent history of ineffectiveness
in many places. His book breathes hope and inspires faith,
but don’t read it if you’re looking for a comfortable ride!
—JOHN NOBLE
CHAIRMAN OF CHARISMATA,
NATIONAL CHARISMATIC LEADERS CONFERENCE
 

In this book Ed Delph tackles one of the most crucial issues facing
the church today—the need for it to be an integral part of
the community it seeks to serve in order to be relevant. Th is is
excellent material for anyone who is serious about understanding
the way forward for the church in our modern world.
—BRIAN PICKERING
HEAD OF THE AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK
 

Church@Community is a key book for pastors and Christian leaders
to read. Dr. Ed Delph provides revolutionary concepts that
empower the local church to become relevant in method and
message to their community and expand God’s kingdom in the
twenty-first century.
—DR. GREG BROWN
SENIOR PASTOR, SKYWAY CHURCH OF THE WEST VALLEY
 

This book and Ed Delph will forever change the way you understand
church and society. What he says really is new, interesting,
and true. Read it. Ponder it and do what he says!
—REV. ALFRED H. ELLS, MC
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
LEADERS THAT LAST MINISTRIES
 

Ed Delph came to our church and started a revolution in the way
we reach out to the community. I quickly set him up to visit all
our network churches in New Zealand and Australia and share
his amazing community transformation message. I believe this
book would be a good manual for the End-Time harvest.
—JOSHUA ASAFO AVIA
HOSANNA WORLD OUTREACH CENTER
HOSANNA GLOBAL NETWORK, NEW ZEALAND
 

Dr. Ed has been coming to our church nearly every year for ten
years and has helped us tremendously to transition our church
towards “A Community for the Community.”
—PASTOR DAVID DISHROON
TAURANGA WORSHIP CENTRE, NEW ZEALAND
 

When I read Church@Community, I gave a sigh of relief . . . finally
here is a book that gives you the “how” to do a thing and not just
the “why”! As a speaker and author, like Ed, who speaks around
the world, I have seen many cast the vision (the “why”) of a thing,
but rarely have I seen speakers and authors help us experience
the reality of a thing (the “how”). This is a book about achieving
results! This is a book to help all finish their race in life. This book
is about helping one achieve success in the eight core values of
business, ministry, and life. This book is a must read for all who
desire to see their dreams become a reality—with intelligent fire.
—DR. MARCUS HESTER
AUTHOR/SPEAKER , CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
THE GOD FACTOR . . . GETTING THE EDGE AT WORK
 

”When the Cloud went up, they got up and marched.” (Num
9:22, Th e Message). Believers in many countries have for some time
known that the Cloud has lifted. God is calling his people to shift
its focus from the church to the community and recognize that it
does exist primarily for its non-members. We are not just out to
build a church, but to seek community transformation. In marching
after the Cloud I do not know of many better equipped to
guide us than Dr. Ed Delph. His new book Church@Community is
challenging and inspiring and provides useful insights about how
a community really functions and about the relationship between
the church and other sectors of the community. Dr. Delph has
international experience and this book will be just as useful in
Europe as in North America. I look forward to recommending it
to other pastors and leaders who want to take “The Next Step in
Real, Tangible and Lasting Community Transformation.”
—DR. REIDAR PAULSEN
SENIOR PASTOR, CHRIST CHURCH IN BERGEN, NORWAY
CO-LEADER OF THE PASTORAL NETWORK IN BERGEN, PRAY BERGEN
 

Ed Delph has been a close friend for years. We share our lives in
a pastors’ covenant group. Ed is full of passion for the church to
be the church, and he lives what he speaks and writes. You will be
stirred by this book as I have by Ed personally!
—DR. GARY D. KINNAMAN, PASTOR AND AUTHOR
WORD OF GRACE CHURCH, MESA, ARIZONA
 

The insights that Dr Delph has for the church today are both
timely and strategic. This book will challenge you with the concepts
he presents. Thank you, Ed, for making us think about what
we are doing!
—MIKE KNOTT
SENIOR MINISTER, ELIM INTERNATIONAL CHURCH
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
 

The impact of the early church was such that the community
“esteemed them highly.” Ed’s insights into the power of the local
church to transform their communities is the voice of the Spirit
of God speaking to the church today. The hour has come for the
church to build bridges into its community.
—LUKE BROUGH
NATIONAL LEADER, ELIM CHURCHES OF NEW ZEALAND
 

Ed Delph is a gifted teacher with much apostolic insight. You
will receive great revelation and a reality check for the church of
now in his latest book, Church@Community. It will change your
paradigm regarding the how and what of church. It is a must read
and a now word.
—APOSTLE JOHN P. KELLY, PRESIDENT
LEAD (LEADERSHIP EDUCATION FOR APOSTOLIC DEVELOPMENT)
 

Ed Delph is a twenty-first-century visionary with an apostolic
worldview. Church@Community should be read and studied for
impacting cities and nations. I highly recommend it.
—APOSTLE EMANUELE CANNISTRACI
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
 

Experiencing the enthusiasm and contemporary cutting edge
vision of Dr. Ed Delph was for me an exciting view of how
God builds a fire in one man and uses him to transform a
generation. It has been my privilege to review his latest book
Church@Community prior to its publishing. The work has my
wholehearted endorsement and recommendation. Every pastor
and church leader should not only read the book, but also attend
one of Dr. Delph’s workshops on the subject. It is my sincere
belief that this work will be significant in motivating leadership
to reclaim the position of respect and impact that the church
should have within our communities and our nation.
—DR. RICHARD DRAKE, PROVOST
PHOENIX UNIVERSITY OF THEOLOGY
 

It is the habit of the body of Christ to become introspective
and thus loose the essence of the message it was meant to
carry: the establishment of the kingdom of God in our communities.
Church@Community effectively confronts this error
and is a call to reorient the church toward an outward focus. I
highly commend this book as it brings a necessary challenge to
the modern church.
—BRENT DOUGLAS
SENIOR LEADER, ENCOUNTER CHRISTIAN CENTRE
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
 

Church@Community adds several new dimensions to the challenge
of community transformation. With fresh language Ed
Delph has been effectively encouraging church leaders around
the globe to shift focus away from professional clergy-led ministry
that exists primarily to serve its members within the walls.
The alternative presented by Church@Community is steeped in
Old Testament and New Testament examples of the people of
God living and serving as a predominantly missionary force in
the community. The message is as timely as it is fresh. Indeed,
a sea of change of restlessness appears to be building among
Christian tribes to break out of the institutionalized preferences
for predictable comfort. Catch the vision and rationale
for a fundamental shift in the nature, function, and mission of
the church.
—DAN REEVES
PRESIDENT, INSTITUTE OF MISSIONAL LEADERSHIP TEAMS
CONVENER, COUNCIL OF ECCLESIOLOGY
 

As my wife and I travel and speak in Europe, or the United
States, we have found that churchgoers are more converted to
church than to Christ, and their relationship with doctrine is
stronger than their relationship with Jesus. Ed’s book is part
of God’s solution to this problem; an incredible storehouse of
information, and revelation. If you want to come to Christ-centeredness,
this is a great place to begin. Read the book!
—ROD AND JULIE ANDERSON
FOUNDERS/DIRECTORS
PRAYER FOR THE NATIONS
 

Dr. Ed Delph has undertaken one of the most significant challenges
in our generation . . . finding the sacred in the secular. As
the author of Learning the Language of Babylon, I find a kindred
spirit in this restless seeker of truth. We cannot delay, for even
one more day, the transition that is at hand. A generation must
arise and engage the marketplace community with the principles
of the kingdom of God. This book will serve as a roadmap on
how to get from here to there.
—DR. TERRY M. CRIST
PASTOR, CITI CHURCH
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA
AUTHOR, LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF BABYLON
 

Passion is contagious . . . truth is challenging . . . and vision is both
inspiring and directional! In his new book Church@Community,
Ed captures all three. Understanding that the church exists,
not to maintain the “religious clubin’” that has become the
strategy of much of the church-world, but rather to fulfill the
dynamic mission of individual and community transformation,
this book will challenge you to the simplicity of “doing the
stuff .” These truths will inspire ordinary people to a reach for
an impacting life at every level of their life. A must read for
every believer that has wondered, How do I and my church make
a difference?
—TONY MILLER
PRESIDENT, DESTINY WORLD OUTREACH
 

I had the privilege, together with our national leadership, to be
ministered to by Ed Delph on some of the themes in this book.
Not only does he have the gift of communication and the anointing
of the Holy Spirit, the content is so relevant, revealing, and
edifying for the church of today. A lifetime’s wisdom and experience
blend with the inspiration of the Spirit as one is caught
up in the pages and fascinating subjects of this book about the
church and her divine calling in the community.
—DR. ISAK BURGER
PRESIDENT, APOSTOLIC FAITH MISSION OF SOUTH AFRICA
 

You are holding an apostolic, prophetic manual for the church in
the twenty-first century in your hands. I have come to know Ed
Delph as someone who truly loves the church. This book raises
the standard for church leaders to seize our greatest moment in
history. You will find what Ed has communicated both inspirational
and implementable. May this book jolt you to a new
awareness of God’s intention and purpose for His church.
—ALAN PLATT
SENIOR PASTOR
DOXA DEO, SOUTH AFRICA
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
 

Some say the church is dead. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say
she’s comatose or half asleep. Whatever the malady, for too long
our churches have been Christian ghettos. For too long they
have been self-serving escapist clubs where we take a breather
from the harsh and challenging realities of the big bad world.
And for too long our members who fail to show at every meeting
on the program-driven agenda have been rebuked for their
lack of commitment.

Enough. It’s time to get up and go—out of your own front
door, out of your familiar comfort zone. Our communities will
not come to us; we must go to them. We need to be Jesus to real
people around us. The people of God have words of life and words
of truth from the throne of God Himself. These are the answers
for hurting, rootless, and exhausted people around the globe.
In this book Ed will encourage you to engage in your community,
in your workplace, in your sphere of influence. I want to
encourage you to do so with all your heart, for Jesus’ sake.
It’s time to unleash the church on the world.
It’s time to unleash Jesus into your community.
—BERNARD SANDERS
IMPACT NETWORK, U.K.
 

Dr. Ed Delph’s new book Church@Community is thought provoking
and informative. The interpretation and application of
the “Humpty Dumpty” story to our fractured community and
our broken world is powerful. The book reminds us that the
earth and its fullness is the Lord’s; the church and the other
four spheres of influence are equally under God’s Grace and
judgment. Church@Community points the way toward community
transformation by following God’s strategy of building His
city. The author has been a clear voice for community transformation
as he speaks at conferences and convocations around
the world. This book brings his insight and wisdom to another
audience. I strongly recommend this book to brothers (and sisters)
and others.
—BISHOP GEORGE D. MCKINNEY
JURISDICTIONAL PRELATE AND
GENERAL BOARD MEMBER, COGIC
FOUNDER/SR. PASTOR/CEO, ST. STEPHEN’S MINISTRIES
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
 

We were privileged to assist in the publication of Ed’s first book
Making Sense of the Apostolic. While small in size, this book was
big in impact and relevance. Now we are expectantly awaiting
Church@Community. Actually I have had a preview and can assure
you that this is a great book—great in concept, great in relevance,
and great in giving these essential truths back to the church around
the world. “Whose time has come” is a phrase often used by Ed in
this book—this is truly a “now” book for the church on a mission
from God! I join with countless other Kiwis in the South Pacific
and say thanks Ed for all of the great work in this book!
—MAX PALMER
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP, NEW LIFE INTERNATIONAL
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND
 

Ed Delph, whose heart is so much concerned about the kingdom
of God and the aim to reach the whole world with the
gospel, is constantly insisting on the very continuity of meaning
between the mystery of faith, the ministry, and the work, with
the emphasis that the church is God’s kingdom embassy and the
voice of God in this world.
Through his frequent and various missions in France, Ed has
shown us how good it was to welcome the divine refreshment,
but even more excellent to restore the original structure. What
a wonderful blessing it has been for me personally and for the
whole nation of France to be acquainted with such a man of
God, for he is not only accurate on a biblical and spiritual level,
but he awakens in us the unction to lead us in our exact and
true function.
—ISMAËL SADOK
PROPHET TO THE NATION OF FRANCE
MARSEILLE, FRANCE
 

Church@Community is a must-read book for every Christian
leader who desires to transition his life and church into a new
model for community transformation.
—MEL C. MULLEN
WORD OF LIFE CHURCHES
RED DEER, ALBERTA, CANADA
 

It was a privilege for us that our city and church was the first
place in Russia where Ed Delph ministered. I have often heard
people say that when you come to their conference you will never
be the same, but, in fact, nothing changes. Not so with Ed’s series
on Church@Community. Not only did it bless our city and congregation,
it changed our city and congregation. We will never be
the same again!
—VIKTOR SUDAKOV
SENIOR PASTOR, NEW LIFE CHURCH AND CHURCH NETWORK
EKATERINBURG, RUSSIA