Packed with detailed looks into the makeup of a church community, Church Ministry By Design powerfully presents a step-by-step biblical guide to organizing and effectively running a church. The church of the 21st century has a number of challenges facing it, not all of them spiritual. How the staff handles the enormity of local regulations, social pressures, and legislation will affect the way ministry is done. Church Ministry by Design provides a blueprint for organizing the church for the future, and addresses a large number of ministries the church may choose to provide for its community. Author and pastor Gary H. Woolverton brings together information that assists the staff of the church in developing, maintaining, and evaluating effective ministry and is designed to help the church thrive in the 21st century. Watch for the continuation of this ministry, as the next volume in the series, Position Descriptions by Design, is released soon.

Your church or ministry will greatly benefit from the information contained within this book. Learn a practical definition for marriage in the church as well as God's design for marriage. Look at the various stages of marriage and the different forms of marriage. And learn how to use the various components of ministry to marriage, including a structure that will greatly enhance your ministry mix. Topics include: Why marriage ministry? Components of marriage ministry Structuring marriage ministry Connecting points for marriage ministry

'Features of A Curriculum Design Manual for Theological Education: A Learning Outcomes Focus 'by LeRoy Ford - Fifteen complete descriptions for courses in various disciplines of theological education. All descriptions are in the learning outcomes format. - A complete set of goals and objectives upon which each chapter is based. These statements, when combined with the goals and objectives for the manual itself, constitute a complete description for a course in Curriculum Design in Theological Education.Ó - Guidelines for elaborating the essential elements of curriculum design: institutional purpose; program, division, and department purposes; scope; educational goals and objectives for learners; multiple contexts; methodology; and instructional and administrative models. - Four hundred learning outcomes at the level of meaningful performance. - An emphasis on making spiritual formation part of every course in the curriculum plan. - Three essentials for the learning outcomes approach: a statement of goals and objectives, use of appropriate methods and activities, and development and use of appropriate testing and evaluation procedures. - An emphasis on the multiple contexts which constitute an element of curriculum design. - Twenty questions which designers must confront in considering the role of affective goals and objectives in curriculum design in theological education. - Appropriate reader response opportunities. - The essentials of a core curriculum. -Glossary of terms used in curriculum design.

Discover the peaceful satisfaction that comes from living and serving according to your divine design. Includes talent inventories, surveys, worksheets, and more.

Contemporary society is in crisis, its structures broken and fragmented, and its people overstimulated, overstressed, and thirsty for true communion with the sacred and with one another. Yet although more than eighty-five percent of congregations in the United States conduct small-group ministry, too many of these groups begin with no clear sense of purpose, structure, or spiritual focus and end by veering away from Christian tradition and unknowingly settling for shallow versions of popular Christianity. In The Church and the Crisis of Community Theresa Latini lays out both a theoretical groundwork and a practical guideline for successful small-group ministry. Examining the latest sociological research and the real-life practices of small groups in six congregations, she shows how well-developed groups those with mission statements, leadership training, and solid organizational structure can be a truly effective tool in the church s work of transforming broken and shallow forms of community into life-giving, life-sustaining relationships with God and others.

Many children’s ministries are a flurry of activity, run by dedicated volunteers and staff who put in long hours and work hard for the good of the children and parents they serve. Yet despite good intentions, many children’s ministries today are not effective. They lack purpose and intentionality. A twenty-five year veteran of children’s ministry in the local church, pastor Steve Adams has ministered to families in multiple churches, from tiny church plants to his present position at Saddleback Church. In this book, Steve applies the revolutionary insights of the Purpose Driven Church to children’s ministry and leads readers on a journey of discovery, showing them how to develop an intentional ministry process that moves children toward spiritual health while building a healthy ministry environment for those who work with kids. You will learn how to ask and answer five simple but powerful questions: Why are we on this journey? Where are you and where are you going? Who are we trying to reach? How will we move our children towards spiritual health? What are the essential elements necessary for the journey? There is no single key to a successful children’s ministry, nor is there only one way that works for everyone. But there is a proven process you can follow and Steve shows how children’s ministries all over the world are reaching their God-given potential by discovering their biblical purpose, avoiding the traps of frustration and burnout.

This newly revised, 738 page study of prayer is everything you would ever want to know about prayer. Its fifty-two chapters, arranged in alphabetical order, include forty prayer topics and a five chapter survey of the prayers of the Bible. With its detailed table of contents, this book would make an excellent resource for your own Bible study on prayer. There is nothing else like it!

This is a book for healing wounded churches. When a church experiences conflict, it results in a wounded people. Healing for the church involves a healing of the people involved. The process is essentially the same for both. That is because the church is Gods vessel for healing the deep wounds of the human soul. The healing process set forth in this book is the application of biblical principles of grace that actually work. They have been tested and found to be amazingly effective. Damaged churches can experience renewal and become effective vessels of grace to their community. Wounded believers can experience renewal and restoration, discovering a dimension of Gods presence either forgotten or never before known. Understanding the reasons for conflict and division, rediscovering the healing impact of Jesus mission, catching a new vision of what it means to be the church in todays world, and designing a local fellowship so that healing grace defines worship and ministry is the focus of this book. As such, it is both a manual for personal healing of the deep wounds of the soul and for healing the wounded church.