About Church for Monday Book

“There are some books that, in God’s providence, are written by exactly the right person and come along at just the right time to forward God’s redemptive mission in this world. Church for Monday: Equipping Believers for Mission at Work by Dr. Svetlana Papazov fits that description perfectly. With the first-hand insight of a practitioner and the visionary lens of a spiritual entrepreneur, Dr. Papazov shows us that reaching the 8-to-5 workday window (where most unchurched people spend the majority of their waking hours) is both essential and doable. The result: an embedded Church that integrates faith into the real-world environments of ordinary people with whole-life transformation as the outcome. Now, that gets my blood pumping! Church for Monday is a breakthrough book for ministry leaders willing to take innovative risks to reach their communities, and a must-read for anyone who longs to see the Good News reach beyond Sunday Church into a waiting, 7-day-a-week world.”

- Dr. Jodi Detrick, Author of The Jesus-Hearted Woman: 10 Leadership Qualities for Enduring & Endearing Influence

“It is quite rare for visionaries and leaders to demonstrate also a "well-lived theology." With refreshing perspective and authenticity that only come by a wealth of experience, Dr. Svetlana Papazov offers in this work a most useful resource, wedding sound ecclesiological commitment and very practical strategies for being the "Church for Monday." Beyond any status quo wineskin, Svetlana communicates a Gospel priority for the generation of image-bearers who have been marginalized and disenfranchised. This book represents the potential to change radically our communities across the nation.”

- Dr. Kevin Dudley, Assistant Professor of Church and Society, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, OH

 "The Sunday-to-Monday movement in our churches is gaining steam, and Dr. Svetlana Papazov has been a blessing to our movement for years. It's great to see her insights written down so their catalytic impact can reach further. If you're thinking about how to connect Sunday to Monday, you'll find a lot of stimulating ideas here."

- Greg Forster, Ph.D., Director, Oikonomia Network

“A book to unshackle the confines of a faith experienced and expressed only inside a religious building or in private solitude. Dr. Papazov’s vision expands the experience of a Christian faith to be what it was meant to be, lived from the inside out, 24/7, and positively impacting others. Accept the challenge to at least think about flourishing at a whole new level and in a new way, for it is, indeed Christ’s call to be a “Church for Monday.”

– Dr. Timothy A. Hager, Vice President, Evangel University and Dean, Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, Springfield, MO

“Well done. So comprehensive. A desperately needed call to reformat the Church as it now is to make tangible, missionally effective moves toward the Church it must be to reach the post, perhaps pre-, Christian culture in which we now live. I believe God is going to use Dr. Svetlana Papazov’s work as a part of His plan to save the mission of His Church in America.”

- Steve Pike, Founder, Church Multiplication Network, President, Urban Islands Project, Author of Total Fitness for Your Church, and Co-Author of Leading Church Multiplication.

"Church for Monday is for everyone! Dr. Papazov has pastorally, intellectually, and creatively focused on the big question for modern Christianity.  Namely, how can we reshape and release the Church to be as influential on Monday as it is on Sunday?  Unless we close this gap the Church will drift away as an irrelevant artifact of the past. This book can prevent such a drift!"

- Dr. Robert J. Rhoden, Celebration Church and Outreach Ministry, Richmond, VA

“An extremely practical book on a complex subject! Dr. Papazov has not written a book based on theory or history, but a manual on hands-on experiences of both her ministry and of others’ of like persuasion of market-place ministry.  For many readers, to gain the maximum benefit from reading the book, will demand the willingness to lay aside past prejudices and even more difficult, the resistance to surrender to change.  The results of this paradigm shift in envisioning and evaluating ministry speak for themselves! I highly recommend this book to those in ministry who are willing to have their goals and methodology challenged.”

-Dr. Gary Royer, Professor, Intercultural Studies, Southwestern Assemblies of God University, Waxahachie, Texas

“Church for Monday opens our imagination to how apprentices of Jesus are equipped within local church community to live more integrally into God’s mission during the week. Insightful, innovative, entrepreneurial and practical, Church For Monday is a welcome and timely contribution to the faith, work and economic movement. I recommend it.”

– Tom Nelson, President Made to Flourish, Overland Park, KS

“Many of us who love the church know that all is not well. While some congregations are growing explosively, many others are in decline, aging and seemingly irrelevant to the communities that surround them. While the worldwide church is growing at unprecedented rates, church membership is declining at alarming rates in the USA. Likely there will be many new models developed to address this decline, but one worth serious consideration is the Church for Monday model put forward in this excellent book. Dr. Svetlana Papazov’s writing is easy to read, applicable, and challenging. It will whet your appetite for how church can be reimagined to bring the marketplace and ministry together in very innovative ways that can help both the church and the community flourish.”

- Ivan L. Filby, PhD, President - Greenville University, Greenville IL

“With the wisdom of a pastor, the expertise of an entrepreneur, the passion of an educator, and the theological accuracy of a Bible scholar, Dr. Svetlana Papazov, in Church for Monday, diagnoses the current state of the Church and offers a biblical remedy for her cure...equip every Christian how to minister in their place of employment and find true enjoyment while doing it! Church for Monday fills the 40 hour a week void left unaddressed by the majority of the Church leaders!”

- Dr. Jamie Morgan, Lead Pastor, Life Church, Williamstown, NJ

“In a Church for Monday, my colleague, sister and consummate entrepreneur Svetlana Papazov, helps Jesus’ bride, the church, to think, to imagine, and to act missionally, entrepreneurially, socially, economically, culturally, spiritually, and discerningly in the best interests of her communities and her neighbors, including those neighbors in the marketplace. Svetlana reminds us that thinking, imagining, and acting Christianly and God-honorably, begins at home base: the church, God’s all-of-life training facility. It is here, we must relentlessly inculcate Christian virtue; it is here, we must cast an expansive Christian vision for the sake of the world; and it is here, we must faithfully equip all-of-life disciple-apprentices. Thankfully, Dr. Papazov shows us the way in this timely book.”

— Dr. Luke Bobo, Director of Partner Engagement, Made to Flourish, Overland Park, KS

“Church for Monday is a clarion call for the Church to engage each person, whether young or old, to release their God-given imagination to make an impact outside the walls of the church for the benefit of their community. In this book you will find practical tools that will awaken the creative imagination of the church to learn how their people and property can be used to love their neighbors and help them flourish. Church for Monday is not about adding one more thing to do on your calendar; it is learning how to be intentional in your spheres of influence to live as the everyday people of God ready to share the love and hope of Christ in useful and meaningful ways.”

- Rev. Dr. Laura Shannon McDaniel, Network Catalyst, Uptick

“The contemporary North American church finds itself amidst great changes, particularly in the area of economics. Svetlana outlines these changes and provides insight for churches to successfully navigate through them to fulfill the mission of God. She not only provides a needed perspective for the church's role in the marketplace, she also provides practical examples from churches across the country that are leading the way forward. This book needs to be read and digested by church leaders to help them envision new possibilities for the church in the 21st century.”

- Dr. W. Jay Moon, Director, Office of Faith, Work, and Economics, Asbury Theological Seminary and Professor, Intercultural Studies