Gone for Good? Negotiating the Coming Wave of Church Property Transition

As tens of thousands, and billions of dollars, of church-owned property is sold or repurposed throughout the United States in the next decade, will those properties be gone for good?

Edited by Mark Elsdon with a foreword by Willie James Jennings, this book draws upon the experience and expertise of a diverse and interdisciplinary group of contributors from across the United States. These contributors highlight what we are losing as church property usage changes at an unprecedented speed and scale, and help us imagine the innovative possibilities that can emerge.

This book encourages church and civic leaders to engage in thoughtful, intentional church property transition so this once in a lifetime shift leaves us not gone for forever, but gone for good.