Rick and Bonnie Ehrheart started Church Planning Resources in 2001 We began our study of church health and renewal in 1994 as Vision Team members of our home congregation in San Rafael, California. We worked closely with consultants Dr. Richard Southern and Robert Norton and witnessed first hand how a church benefits from hands-on professional attention. Over the next several years, we represented our local church at numerous conferences and training seminars. We gained practical experience by implementing many of the tactics we now teach. By 1999, God was calling us to expand our ministry and begin working with churches other than our home congregation. We renewed our association with Southern and Norton, and interned with them for the next two years. During this time, there were ample opportunities for work and study in what had become for us our new life's work. We retired from business careers in 2000 to devote ourselves to the ministry of training church leaders to build up the Body of Christ. Finally, feeling called to begin our own personal ministry of church health and renewal, we formed Church Planning Resources in October 2001. Bonnie has owned and operated her own successful employee benefits business. She is a Small Group ministry expert with leadership training dating back to 1986. She is a certified trainer of leaders for ChristCare, the small group program from Stephen Ministries. She has a passion for teaching others outreach and evangelism techniques that work in today's culture. Bonnie is currently enrolled at Salt Lake Theological Seminary's Master of Arts program with a concentration in Ministry Studies. Rick has a keen interest in helping churches clarify who they are and whom they can best serve. His mission is to assist churches that wish to move out of the ineffective, programmatic paradigm and into the exciting world of being "Mission" driven. He has been an active lay leader and held a number of church administrative positions throughout the years. He recently retired from a 22-year career in the insurance business to devote himself to the CPR mission of helping lay leaders and clergy build up the body of Christ. Rick is currently working on his Master of Divinity at Salt Lake Theological Seminary and recently completed a one-year pastoral internship with a former client, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Salt Lake City.