The Next Level book and campaign was featured on the February 3 issue of Rick Warren’s Ministry Toolbox, a free newsletter to help close to 200,000 ministry leaders grow healthy churches.

On this issue, they talk about how the Next Level book and campaign was able to equip a congregation reach thousands of people in the community with God’s love during hard times and grow the church. Read more.

Zondervan is giving away a free copy of Scott Wilson’s new book, Steering Through Chaos, to all bloggers who agree to participate in the Blog tour March 15-19.

The Signup for this has closed. If you signed up, don’t forget to read the book and tell the world your thoughts on your blog in the upcoming weeks, and post it between March 15-19, 2010.

Thanks so much for participating in the STC Blog Tour. I hope you find the book to be useful to you and your ministry. (more…)

See the 1 hour interview with Scott Wilson at MinistryDirect.com.

Join MinistryDirect.com on February 4th at 3:00 p.m. (CST) for a live Q&A with Scott Wilson.

Scott is lead pastor of The Oaks Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and the author of Steering through Chaos. Scott will answer questions about leading your church through strategic changes. Get in on the conversation and email your questions for Scott to questions@ministrydirect.com, or tweet them using #ministrydirect just before and during the interview.

Special Twitter Promotion: Tweet “Join Scott Wilson for Q&A on 2/4 @ 3pm CST at ministrydirect.com/live. #ministrydirect” and you’ll be entered in a drawing to receive a free autographed copy of Steering through Chaos. Recipients will be announced during the Q&A.

At the recent Nines conference of the Leadership Network, Pastor Scott Wilson shares his experience on ways to raise the leadership bar in your church. See the video below that was shared at that event.