Jim Tomberlin is the senior advisor to Catalyst of Lake County, Chicago, which is seeking to unite the church of the greater Chicago area. Jim began as senior pastor of a non-denominational church in Colorado Springs that grew to be one of the largest in the area. Eventually, the three largest churches sat together to see how they could work together while keeping the main focus of the gospel. They invited other churches to meet together and ask what they could to together. They agreed to pray for everyone every year, eradicate hunger in the community, and bring the gospel to everyone in the community. It was called The Net. There were multi-faceted motivations with every church looking to see how the involvement would help their church. They hired someone to think about the joint issues for all the churches.
After working with Willow Creek on a multi-church collaboration, Jim became a pastor at large, leading Catalyst full time to bring churches together. He now works all over the country using Acts 2 as an example for reforming a city and working with local organic grassroots of emergent pastors. Every pastor is a kingdom leader, but not every kingdom leader is a pastor. We need people who are ready to make it happen.
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