Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Jeff Smith, who when he overheard we were hoping to co-author a book on forming missionary disciples, immediately offered to have The Word Among Us publish the book. We are grateful to Beth McNamara who has worked with us from the beginning to coax the book into existence and guide it to completion. We are also thankful for the excellent editing skills of Cynthia Cavnar, Jessica Montgomery, and Lucy Scholand, who took an awkward manuscript and shaped it into a much better and clearer book.