Helping leaders last

To build wisely and finish well, church leaders need guidance and direction.

Today, ministry is more complex and the pool of experienced leaders is shrinking. Finding guides who can speak to the soul, understand organizational realities, and write (or recommend!) resources that spark clarity and generate momentum around your calling or role is more important than ever before. Failure to remember God’s promises and discover leadership pathways is leading to exhaustion and burnout. For churches and networks to flourish, leaders must last.

Find renewal with resources from Rev. Dave Harvey

This website serves as a hub for Dave’s extensive work in Christian ministry over decades, offering insights and resources for pastors, planters, church leaders, and any influencers looking to expand their soul, deepen their faith, and sharpen their leadership skills.

Meet Dave

For close to 4 decades, Dave Harvey has taught Christians, trained pastors and church planters, and advised network leaders through his many roles in ministry. Currently, he serves as president of the Great Commission Collective, a global church planting network.

Dave holds a D. Min. from Westminster Theological Seminary, was president of Sojourn Network, led church planting and church care ministries at Sovereign Grace Churches, and was a lead pastor for nearly two decades. Dave has authored over a dozen books, contributed to the ESV Men’s Devotional Bible, and has written regularly for many ministries including The Gospel Coalition, Desiring God, and For The Church.

Coaching

Have you read one of Dave’s books and feel drawn to being coached in the content? Or are you interested in seeing transformation in your leadership, ministry, marriage, or church in areas that expand your contentment and fruitfulness? Dave offers specialized coaching in:

Leadership development
Prodigals and helping their parents
Preaching
Marriage help
Helping elders become a healthy plurality
Advising network leaders in developing church planting networks
Ministry tools
And other themes

Books

Stronger Together

Dave draws from his experiences and study of networks to walk Christian institutions, church leaders, and planters through tested strategies for starting and sustaining healthy and biblical church partnerships.

When Sinners Say “I Do”

Marriage is the union of two people who arrive at the altar toting some surprisingly large luggage—and the Bible calls it sin. This book is about encountering the life-transforming power of the gospel in the unpredictable journey of marriage.

Am I Called?

Many men have the skills to lead a church, but only some are called. Dave helps men considering pastoral ministry to see God’s active role in the process of discerning their calling.

The Plurality Principle

Essential to every healthy church is a biblical model of leadership. Dave encourages church leaders to prioritize plurality for the surprising ways that it helps churches to flourish.

Courses

Self-paced courses from Dave Harvey can help you gain powerful insights into who you are as a leader, as well as what opportunities are available for growth and development in your team and church. Courses are designed for use in both individual and group settings.

Eldership Training Kit

5 Elder Commitments

Articles

UNCATEGORIZED

We Need You: The Cost of Not Caring for our Pastors

Dave May 23, 2023

UNCATEGORIZED

What “Jesus Wept” Means for Me

Dave June 20, 2023

TENACIOUS TUESDAY

Eight Cows and a Worthy Call

Dave September 19, 2023

Ambition

The Paradox of Humble Ambition

Dave November 7, 2023

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Testimonials

For Stronger Together: Dave Harvey draws on several decades of pastoral ministry, network leadership, and the teaching of the New Testament to coach us into a more collegial and fruitful way of leading—linking arms with other churches and watching the gospel surge forward more effectively than any single church could ever experience.

Read carefully, examine yourself willingly, confess openly, and learn humbly because here is mature, gospel-rich, battle-formed ministry wisdom. In a season when the culture’s individualism has tragically infected and weakened the church, this call to partnership in gospel ministry is an essential commitment that every pastor or leader needs to make.

For When Sinners Say “I Do”: Dave Harvey skillfully exposed the real root of most marriage problems—each spouse is still a sinner. But he doesn’t leave us to wallow in our sin. He shows the way out through the ongoing power of the gospel. This book will be helpful for any married couple whether they’ve been married five weeks or fifty years.

This is a wonderful book. It is honest, refreshing, practical, and above all biblical. These carefully written pages spill over with truth and grace. This book is liberating, Christ-centered, and hope-filled, pointing the way to God-empowered marriage.

The history of the church is marked and marred by the ‘ministries’ of unqualified men. The reason I am glad to recommend Am I Called? is that Dave Harvey sets the call to pastoral ministry in the biblical context: the calling from God and the calling from and to a local church. May God use this book to raise up a whole new generation of men who are called, equipped, and competent for the work he (and we) have called them to.

For Am I Called?: This is the fullest, most realistic, down-to-earth, and genuinely spiritual exploration of God’s call to pastoral ministry that I know. I recommend it most highly.

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