I just got an e-mail from Mike Cook, our marketing director at Zondervan letting me know that he got the very first copy of our new book The BIG IDEA this morning! Here is how he announced it:
"Dear Dave, Well the baby is born. She arrived on my chair at 8 am this morning. She weighs about 10oz. is 198 pages long, and has blue "eyes". She looks beautiful. Thanks so much for choosing to partner with our good friends at Leadership Network and with Zondervan. It is an honor to work on your book, on this Innovation series and for this company...Here is to the Holy Spirit - paving the way, opening the eyes of people's hearts - and to increasing the Kingdom as a result of this work..." Thanks Mike for all that you have done to get the word out about The BIG IDEA and all that you are going to do to let the world know!
I'm told that I should get an advance copy within the next couple days - cool. But more importantly The BIG IDEA will officially be available everywhere February 1st!
I saw Jon running around the office "the new book is here! the new book is here!"
Oh wait, that was Steve Martin in The Jerk.
Kudos to you, Jon and Eric. What an excellent, God-led accomplishment.
Posted by: lorinda | January 12, 2007 at 05:22 PM
Thanks Lorinda!!
Posted by: Dave Ferguson | January 12, 2007 at 05:36 PM
We can't wait to read it!!
Posted by: ryan | January 13, 2007 at 01:56 PM
Congrats! I'm looking forward to checking it out. dt www.davetilma.com
Posted by: dt | January 13, 2007 at 07:27 PM
That's awesome Dave. I can't wait to grab hold of it. I think the "Big Idea" is a tremendous tool to help make God's truthiness stick. I am looking forward to implementing it over here in Indiana. Thanks for the conference as well.
Posted by: Doug Gamble | January 14, 2007 at 06:17 PM
Ryan, Dave & Doug - Thanks! I'm pretty pumped too. I got my first copy of The BIG IDEA on Friday and after looking through it I'm even more excited about the book.
Posted by: Dave Ferguson | January 14, 2007 at 08:33 PM
Looking forward to it
Posted by: Janus | January 19, 2007 at 09:41 PM
Hey Dave -
just got my copy of The BIG IDEA from amazon yesterday, and have spent about an hour or so flipping through different parts of it.
I'm really enjoying it and I think its going to add a lot to what we're doing as a church.
Posted by: Mike Goldsworthy | January 25, 2007 at 05:31 PM
Mike, thanks! We are getting good feedback on the book from lots of places. Dave
Posted by: Dave Ferguson | January 25, 2007 at 06:02 PM