About Alan Hirsch
Alan is the founding Director of
Forge Mission Training Network. He is the co-founder of
shapevine.com an international forum for engaging with world transforming ideas. He leads Future Travelers, a learning journey applying missional-incarnational approaches to established churches and is an active participant in
The Tribe of LA, a Jesus community among artists and creatives in Los Angeles.
Known for his innovative approach to mission, Alan is a teacher and key mission strategist for churches across the western world. His popular book
The Shaping of Things to Come (with Michael Frost) is widely considered to be a seminal text on mission. Alan's recent book
The Forgotten Ways, has quickly become a key reference for missional thinking, particularly as it relates to movements. His book
ReJesus is a radical restatement about the role that Jesus plays in defining missional movements.
Untamed, his latest book (with his wife Debra) is about missional discipleship for a missional church.
His experience in leadership includes leading a local church movement among the marginalized as well as heading up the Mission and Revitalization work of his denomination. Alan is and adjunct professor at
Fuller Seminary and lectures frequently throughout Australia, Europe, and the U.S.
Writing material in the pipeline
Alan is already working
with other authors and practitioners to further develop the ideas of
The Forgotten Ways, There is one coming out on communitas (with Michael
Frost) and another exploring apostolic ministry (with Tim Catchim).
Right Here, Right Now (With Lance Ford), a book about activating
mission in every disciple will be published early 2011. Also in view is
a book called Future Travelers (with Dave Fergusen) which will lay out
ways in which to integrate missional-incarnational approaches into
prevailing forms of church.