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| From the celebrated pastor of a fast-growing United Methodist megachurch comes a vision for struggling mainline congregations who want to attract---and absorb---the unchurched folks in their communities. Learn to "market" your congregation; mobilize your staff; improve on first impressions like church grounds and nursery facilities; make traditional worship seeker-friendly; raise funds; avoid burnout; and more. |
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| A Leadership Network Publication With this much-needed handbook, the authors brilliantly combine their experience guiding dozens of churches through the change process with both the study of Christian disciplines and the sophisticated understanding of such important business thinkers as John Kotter on leading change and Peter Senge on learning organizations. In this eminently readable book the authors have distilled their insights and practices into simple but powerful concepts for leading congregations, whether long established or recently formed, through profound change.Leaders using this guide will also be interested in the companion Leading Congregational Change Workbook, which offers assessment questions, planning worksheets, activities, and case examples for each stage of the process. |
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| Discover time-tested leadership techniques that can help you maintain your edge in the face of life's many obstacles! Whether you're an "old pro," or just starting out in a position of authority, Hayford's insightful articles---each focusing on a specific principle of leadership---will help you more effectively shepherd and mentor others. |
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| LEADING FROM THE SECOND CHAIR will raise awareness of the need for strong leaders in secondary positions. It will describe the value they can bring to their organization and to primary leaders when they are serving at their full potential. It will reshape the way they view their role, with an emphasis on their own responsibility as leaders. It recognizes the unique challenges and frustrations of serving in a subordinate position and equips these leaders with the attitudes and skills that they will need to survive and thrive in this new paradigm. Because of the scarcity of resources for second chair leaders, particularly those in the church, this book will offer a practical way to improve the performance of any organization. Leading Congregational Change discussed the importance of a "vision community"--a diverse group of key members who discern and implement the vision for a congregation--to guide the transformation of a church. This work will extend the theme of an empowered leadership team as we explore how individual clergy and laity can lead effectively. |
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| Take a moment to think about the folks on your ministry team. Are they take-charge "Lions"; outgoing "Otters"; cooperative "Golden Retrievers"; or task-oriented "Beavers"? Learn to understand, accommodate, and empower each unique temperament---and watch your ministry take off! Each book includes a FREE online personality assessment with a 28-page report. |
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| The Leading From Your Strengths Team-Building Discovery Kit is designed to help you and your team better understand your unique strengths and how to blend and build those strengths in a way that helps you be more productive, efficient, and creative than ever before. This kit can be used in a corporate setting, small-group dynamic, management teams, and ministry groups. The lessons and kit content can be adjusted to meet the needs of a group of 3 to a larger group of 100 or more. Easy to facilitate with: Outstanding DVD teaching resource covering 10 lessons of material CD-ROM-wizard-based, easy-to-use CD containing all materials needed (Fully reproducible guides, manuals, and promotional items in PDF format) One Facilitator's Guide geared to help lead an exceptional training experience One Participant's Manual that becomes a tool to use over and over Poster-sized Leading From Your Strengths Success Insights Wheel to capture your entire group's strengths Discount Code for participant's online assessments Audio book CD (Abridged Version of Leading From Your Strengths Memory tools for future team growth (audio and printed) Options for presentation in different time blocks IBM/Mac compatible DVD and CD-ROM Full photocopying privelages to reproduce resources, promotional materials, posters, flashcards, Facilitator's Guide, and Participant's Manual (extra printed Facilitator's Guides and Participant's Manuals are also available for purchase |
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| According to a study by George Barna, a person is most likely to become a Christian between the ages of four and fourteen. Yet the majority of evangelism training is designed to reach adults, not children. Leading Kids to Jesus equips children’s ministry leaders with proven principles to help them have life-changing discussions with kids. The focus is exclusively on personal interactions, not corporate presentations or prop-driven illustrations. Readers learn the best ways to communicate God’s love to toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary school children in words they understand. The book adapts two simple communication tools from the bestselling evangelism course Becoming a Contagious Christian, which helps you develop your own three-part story and the four components of the gospel message. Included is a survey of what questions to expect from kids, along with other helps and children’s ministry experience from Willow Creek’s Promiseland staff and volunteers. A companion volume for parents called Leading Your Child to Jesus is also available. Click here to read a sample chapter! Adobe Acrobat is required. Click here to download |
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| Book 3 of Tales of London is set in the fascinating world of the London theatre at the close of the nineteenth century. Wardrobe mistress Bethia Rayborn incites the wrath of Muriel Pearce Holt, the new leading lady at London's Royal Court Theatre. Muriel plots revenge, but in scheming to steal Bethia's true love, she may lose the truest love she has ever known. |
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| Because church boards are often comprised of volunteers with little or no leadership training, this book offers workable strategies to train laypeople to successfully lead their churches. Click here to read a sample chapter! Adobe Acrobat is required. Click here to download |
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| The best-selling small group guidebook—over 100,000 sold. NOW UPDATED. Like nothing else, small groups have the power to change lives. They’re the ideal route to discipleship—a place where the rubber of biblical truth meets the road of human relationships. For six years Bill Donahue provided training and resources for small group leaders so that Willow Creek could build a church of small groups. Now he is committed to creating tools that will help church leaders pursue the same goal—to provide a place in community for everyone in their congregation. In Leading Life-Changing Small Groups, Donahue and his team share in depth the practical insights that have made Willow Creek’s small group ministry so effective. The Comprehensive, Ready-Reference Guide for Small Group Leaders The unique, ready-reference format of this book gives small group leaders, pastors, church leaders, educators, and counselors a commanding grasp of: ·Group formation and values ·Leadership requirements and responsibilities ·The philosophy and structure of small groups ·Meeting preparation and participation ·Discipleship within the group ·Leadership training . . . and much more From an individual group to an entire small group ministry, Leading Life-Changing Small Groups gives you the comprehensive guidance you need to cultivate life-changing small groups . . . and growing, fruitful followers of Christ. Click here to read a sample chapter! Adobe Acrobat is required. Click here to download |
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| Written in a sprightly, conversational style, Schoolland's stories, as Moody Monthly has said, "are told with clarity and simplicity unusual in Bible story books." Parents and teachers will find the book ideal for nurturing in very young Christians a personal relationship with God. |
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