FRANK VIOLA has been pioneering in organic missional church life since 1988. He brings over 20 years of experience to the table in what is now a growing phenomenon. Beyond planting organic missional churches, he is a bestselling author and sought-after conference speaker.

Frank's public speaking covers a wide range of topics including the centrality, supremacy, and all-sufficiency of Jesus Christ, the deepening of the spiritual life, Christian community, church planting, God's eternal purpose, mission, and church renewal.

He has written numerous books on the deeper Christian life and radical church reform, including the bestsellers From Eternity to Here, Jesus Manifesto (coauthored with Leonard Sweet), and Pagan Christianity (co-authored with George Barna) as well as Epic Jesus, Revise Us Again, Finding Organic Church, Reimagining Church, and The Untold Story of the New Testament Church.

His books and articles have been translated into Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, German, French, Swedish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Russian. He has traveled extensively throughout the continental United States also making trips to Europe, South Africa, and South America.

Frank has also been quoted in TIME magazine and has written for or contributed interviews to Christianity Today, Relevant, Charisma, Ministry Today, Prism, Good News, CBN, Neue, Out of Ur, The Christian Post, Revive, ReThink, The Ooze, Next-Wave, ForMinistry, OpenHeaven, House2House, InSpirit, Allelon, New Reformation, Ginkworld, The Cutting Edge, New Wineskins,The Pneuma Review, etc. His blog is one of the most popular Christian blogs today. Frank lives in Florida with his family.

"Frank Viola is a prophetic voice in the contemporary Christian milieu. Through his prolific publishing and conference-speaking output, Frank has informed, challenged, and deepened the spiritual lives of many over the past decade, myself included. Frank's pen played a key role in introducing me to knowing Jesus in an organic community of God's friends, combining meticulous research and firsthand experience into books that capture heart and mind. He brings years of alternative church experience to the table, offering fresh (even radical, "to the root") thinking to bear on old questions, while pioneering new questions few have asked. I've found in my own circles of friends that Frank's writing and speaking appeals to a broad cross-section of people in my life evangelicals and post-evangelicals, charismatics and contemplatives, as well as my curious friends not on a Christian path. He seems to have the ear of both the ever-growing organic church movement and the emerging/missional church conversation like few others. Frank's love for God, his provocative writing and teaching, and his church planting experience make him a vital voice in our time. I look forward to much more to come!"

Mike Morrell, editor for The Ooze and contributor to Next-Wave, the Burnside Writers Collective, and Relevant Magazine.