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Asian Pacific American Youth Ministry: Planning Helps and Programs
Type: BOOK
Author: Ng, Donald
Author: Ng, Donald
A first-of-its-kind resource prepared by Christian educators with an intimate knowledge of the pressures experienced by Asian Pacific American Christians of the pressures experienced by Asian Pacific American adolescents. Contains a historical review, discussion of theological foundations, teaching methods for a variety of situations, ideas to stimulate discussion, and guidelines for developing a program for your specific needs.
Birth, Death and Resurrection: Teaching for Spiritual Growth Through the Church Year
Type: BOOK
Author: Smith, Judy Gattis
Author: Smith, Judy Gattis
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Christian Education
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Church Year
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General
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Program Structure
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Spiritual Growth
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Teaching Aids
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Shows how your Christian education program can be more structured around the Christian Year. Helps bring a new vitality to Christian ed. programs by offering the church year as a structure to introduce Christian understandings of spiritual experiences such as birth, baptism and death, practical programs for children, youth and adults, and useful insights into the lectionary for church school teacher.
Blueprints for Evangelism and Church Growth
Type: BOOK
Author: Miller, Herb
Author: Miller, Herb
Step-by-step plan to inspire a change in your congregation's evangelistic success. Includes a preparation phase, a 10-step action phase and a continuing action phase.
Building Bridges: The Art and Practice of Evangelistic Calling
Type: BOOK
Author:
Author:
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Church Membership
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Church Renewal
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Evangelism
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General
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New Members
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Outreach
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Program Structure
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Welcoming / Reaching Outside the Church
)
When is it appropriate to visit prospective church members? How can ewe set up an evangelistic calling program in our community? What's the best way to call on inactive church members? These questions and more are answered in this concise, readable manual.
Camping with Retarded Persons
Type: BOOK
Author: Bogardus, LaDonna
Author: Bogardus, LaDonna
Book with guidance and ideas for camping with mentally retarded persons. Deals primarily with small-group camping: each boy and girl is assigned to a small group of 6 or 7 boys and girls plus 2 adults. The group becomes a kind of camp family and practically all his activities are carried out in this group.
Christian Spiritual Formation in the Church and Classroom
Type: TAPE
Author: Johnson, Suzanne
Author: Johnson, Suzanne
Challenges current thinking about spiritual formation and faith development. Shows "flabbiness" of much recent spiritual formation talk. Shows how present "stages of faith development" theories must be replaced by a perceptive understanding of the way persons actually learn and believe. Emphasizes the corporate nature of the church and the grace of God.
Church as Learning Community, The: A Comprehensive Guide to Christian Education
Type: BOOK
Author: Everest, Norma Cook
Author: Everest, Norma Cook
Comprehensive guide for the local congregation to framing Christian educational practices within many types of parishes. Offers tools and strategies as well as important questions.
Congregations and Child Care: A Self-Study
Type: BOOK
Author: Steele, Dorothy M., Ed.
Author: Steele, Dorothy M., Ed.
A guide for churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship and their early childhood programs.
Creative Leadership Series: Keys to Building Youth Ministry
Type: BOOK
Author: Ludwig, Glenn E.
Author: Ludwig, Glenn E.
This helpful book shows how to get the whole church involved in an effective long-term youth ministry. It shows how to make the youth program an ongoing success, so that the program is still intact and thriving when each generation moves on.
Director's Manual for Weekday Ministries
Type: BOOK
Author: McLain, Barbara Snell
Author: McLain, Barbara Snell
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Church Admin/Leadership
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Education
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General
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Leadership
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Lower Elementary
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Preschool Programs
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Program Structure
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Upper Elementary
)
An essential tool for directors of a preschool or afterschool program at church, whether you are new to the position or experienced, or even just thinking about starting such a program. This book is packed with practical information to help you develop and maintain a quality weekday ministry.
Doing the Gospel: Local Congregations in Ministry
Type: BOOK
Author: Nichols, Roy C.
Author: Nichols, Roy C.
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Church Growth
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General
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Inspiration
,
Outreach
,
Program Structure
,
Welcoming / Reaching Outside the Church
)
What does it take to create a thriving congregation? Profiled more than 140 dynamic UM congregations. Reveals fresh ideas and effective strategies for developing a thriving congregation. Cross-references and appendixes are provided so that you may contact any one of the churches to receive more information.
Drama Through the Church Year
Type: BOOK
Author: Smith, Judy Gattis
Author: Smith, Judy Gattis
Everybody's idea book of Christian drama activities for producers, directors and actors of all ages. Ideal for the person who wants to start a drama program or revitalizing an existing program in their church.
Early Childhood Ministry and Your Church
Type: BOOK
Author: Seaton and Rothaar
Author: Seaton and Rothaar
How to start and maintain an early childhood center.
Education for Continuity and Change: A New Model for Christian Religious Education
Type: BOOK
Author: Moore, Mary Elizabeth
Author: Moore, Mary Elizabeth
Continuity and Change, historical tradition and contemporary experience: This book examines a new model for Christian religious education that combines these two emphases - finding fresh meanings in the present while handing down the tradition.
Evangelism Ministries: Planning Handbook
Type: BOOK
Author: Braden, Suzanne G.
Author: Braden, Suzanne G.
The essential guide to your evangelism efforts. 6-session guidelines for meetings. Highlights include: new member assessment, community assessment, and 20 planning worksheets.
Families Matter: A Planning Resource
Type: BOOK
Author: Magee, Marilyn
Author: Magee, Marilyn
Designed to assist leaders and the work team for family ministries to develop and improve a system for effective programs of ministry. Part of the Living as Disciples in our Households program.
Fast Forms for Youth Ministry
Type: BOOK
Author: Sparks, Lee
Author: Sparks, Lee
Time-saving, ready-to-copy checklists, schedules, job desriptions, letters and forms for a more effective ministry.
Future Perfect
Type: BOOK
Author: Davis, Stanley M.
Author: Davis, Stanley M.
This book illuminates the new technological marketplace and stimulates readers to consider new business and organizational possibilities. Davis offers an iconoclastic way of managing and developing the organizations that will success in the coming decades.
Humanity Comes of Age: The New Context for Ministry with the Elderly
Type: BOOK
Author: Paul and Paul
Author: Paul and Paul
Mission Study resource. Examines the concept of "old age" and presents a detailed and informed analysis of the situation which the church must address in its ministry with senior citizens. Urges the churches radically to rethink their programs and reorder them in ways that will enable the old to affirm life throughout its lengthening course.
Humanity Comes of Age: The New Context for Ministry with the Elderly
Type: BOOK
Author: Paul and Paul
Author: Paul and Paul
Examines the concept of "old age" and presents a detailed and informed analysis of the situation which the church must address in its ministry with senior citizens. Urges churches radically to rethink their programs and reorder them to enable the old "to affirm life throughout its lengthening course."