Is your church viable in the changing marketplace of today--and tomorrow? Today's church market is comprised of four cultural paradigms--Youth, Baby Busters (Generation X), Baby Boomers, and Pre-Boomers. Each has unique characteristics in terms of attitudes, spiritual orientation, values, emotional needs, moral perspective, and lifestyle. This implies significant changes for the church--new approaches to ministry and different methods of communication and interface. Church Wake-Up Call's unique “Ministries Matrix” approach provides effective management techniques to help you define and evaluate duties, priorities, and remedial actions for the future of your ministry in today's multigenerational context. Church Wake-Up Call will inform and enlighten you on these subjects: understanding and using the Ministries Matrix to define purposes and priorities for your church eirecting your ministry toward a particular age group without compromising the church's message increasing your church's visibility structuring your church's management organization creating an effective outreach program . . . and more! Although the book is oriented toward churches and their leadership and has been written largely from an evangelical Christian perspective, the descriptive information regarding each of the generational categories that comprise today's populace is applicable to all Christian organizations, whether they be evangelical or mainline Protestant, Catholic or parachurch. Similarly, the management system, which integrates defined purposes, priorities, and programming options into a well-coordinated plan of action, can be applied by all such organizations.

Jim Stortenbecker is a graduate of North Penn High School in Lansdale, Pa. where he currently resides with his wife of 42 years. He has three children and nine grandchildren. He is also a graduate of the University of Maryland with a degree in business and management. Jim Stortenbecker retired from the US Army in 1985 after 21 years of honorable service. He is extremely active in his church as an usher, a member of the church worship team and operator of the book and tape store. He is a singer and musician and dedicated to bringing about a change in the Christian faith through Christian unity and through his ministry, Turning The Tides and his web page, truetides.com, both of which are currently in the development stage. Jim has had several Christian related articles published in the local newspaper. His book, Christian Wake Up Call, is a call he received from God for Christians to put aside their denominational differences and unite to solidify the Christian faith and our relationship with the Trinity. We are facing the end times and God is sending the Christian community a wake up call. Jim has addressed this in his book with an urgent plea for unification.

Issues a wake-up call to the slumbering church to take the lead in the battle to preserve America's moral foundation. Drawn from Christ's letters to the seven churches in Revelations 2 and 3.

Dr. Shirley provides formulas for 40- and 50-year olds who have just responded to the financial wake-up call. She shares examples, success stories, and case studies of real people from her financial planning practice of 18 years, accompanied by charts, forms, and tips to guide 40- and 50-year old readers on a journey to financial self-sufficiency.

This is possibly the best reference book ever written on the Restoration Movement. Read the years of information that Mr. Garrett has compiled and put into this classic writing. If you want to know how the movement has come to this point in time, this is a must read.