Religious institutions and organizations Books
Alban Institute, Inc Practicing Right Relationship: Skills For
Book SynopsisIn this profound yet practical book, Mary Sellon and Daniel Smith make the case that the health of churches and synagogues depends on congregations learning how to live out love in "right relationships." The authors distill what they have learned from other researchers as well as their work with dozens of pastors and congregations. This how-to lays out theory, story, tools, and exercises that will help congregations and their leaders learn how to build and maintain the loving relationships that provide the medium for God''s transforming work
£18.99
Alban Institute, Inc So You’re on the Search Committee
Book SynopsisSo You''re on the Search Committee focuses on the experience of pastoral search committees and the unique role that laity in most denominations play in this crucial process. Because a change of pastors is, as Alban Institute founder Loren Mead puts it, a "critical moment of ministry," participation as a member of a search committee is a big investment with tremendous rewards, both for the congregation as well as for the individual. Authors Ketcham and Hahn find that the pastoral search process presents both search committee members and the congregation as a whole with limitless opportunities for growth and faith development. They offer insightful reflections on the deeper issues of congregational identity and transformation that search committees will find themselves wrestling with, as well as raise warnings about some of the obstacles committee members can expect to encounter in the search process. So You''re on the Search Committee began as a conversation between Celia Allison Hahn, former editor-in-chief at the Alban Institute, and Bunty Ketcham, a consultant with considerable experience serving on search committees. First published in 1985, this new edition retains the original book''s interview format and includes significant updates and revisions based on new learnings and experiences with congregations going through pastoral transition.
£9.99
Alban Institute, Inc What's Theology Got to Do With It?: Convictions,
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£23.75
Alban Institute, Inc Who Is Our Church?: Imagining Congregational
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£27.62
Alban Institute, Inc From Nomads to Pilgrims: Stories from Practicing
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£25.00
Alban Institute, Inc How Your Church Family Works: Understanding
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£18.99
Alban Institute, Inc Winning Grants to Strengthen Your Ministry
Book SynopsisMinistry leaders possess the compassion, creativity, and knowledge about community needs that grant funders appreciate. Yet ministry groups are often less experienced than other types of nonprofit organizations in discerning which funding to seek, understanding how to build relationships with funders, and putting together proposals. This book offers a pathway to strengthening new and existing ministries. Joy Skjegstad is an experienced grant-proposal writer who has successfully raised money for a variety of nonprofits over the past 20 years, including a number of ministry organizations. She shows how fundraising can be an integral part of ministry--forcing us into deeper conversation with God, expanding our relationships with others, and building both our faith and our discipline. Providing detailed guidance on the practical aspects of seeking grants from foundation and corporate funders, Skjegstad describes approaches for researching potential funders, developing a case statement, putting together an effective grant proposal, and following up with grant makers. She explains the types of grants available and how to determine which are a good fit with your ministry. For faith-based ministries, faith is the groundwork for fundraising--the most important thing to consider while developing fundraising values and strategies. Skjegstad helps faith communities identify their own cultural beliefs, follow spiritual disciplines, and cultivate generous hearts as they work toward integrating their faith and their fundraising.
£23.75
Alban Institute, Inc The Honest to God Church: A Pathway to God's
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£29.13
Alban Institute, Inc Holy Places: Matching Sacred Space with Mission
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£31.77
Alban Institute, Inc Healthy Disclosure: Solving Communication
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£30.67
Alban Institute, Inc When Moses Meets Aaron: Staffing and Supervision
Book SynopsisIn this book, the authors have taken the best of human resource practices and immersed them in a congregational context, providing a comprehensive manual for supervising, motivating, and coordinating staff teams. Rendle and Beaumont give both detailed and big picture guidance on hiring, job descriptions, supervision, performance evaluation, staff-team design, difficult staff behavior, and more. Their combined experience in consulting and training with staff and leaders of large congregations proves invaluable in this manual for today's leadership demands.
£23.75
Alban Institute, Inc Reaching Out in a Networked World: Expressing
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£30.27
Alban Institute, Inc Pathway to Renewal: Practical Steps for
Book SynopsisNo pastor can lead a congregation to renewal alone. it requires a complete change of heart for the whole congregation. Congregational renewal occurs when people engage communally in a transition in their very understanding of the nature and purpose of their church. This goes far beyond a simple retooling of the mission statement or addition of a few programs. Authors Mary Sellon and Daniel Smith lead congregations through this process of renewal, breaking down into understandable components what is happening in the people themselves that makes renewal efforts successful. Pathway to Renewal offers pastors and congregational leaders a framework for understanding and addressing the deep cultural shift facing the people of a congregation during congregational renewal. This book will help leaders make sense of where their congregation could get stuck and guide them in thinking through what needs to be addressed next as a congregation seeks renewal. The realigning of a congregation''s heart and sense of purpose can be a long process, but one that ultimately all congregations must experience in order to fully live out the world-transforming mission that God has given them to do.
£19.99
Alban Institute, Inc Imagining Church: Seeing Hope in a World of
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£29.43
Alban Institute, Inc All for God's Glory: Redeeming Church Scutwork
Book SynopsisNobody likes scutwork, the unwanted dregs of the working day. Pastors are no exception to this, often dreading the endless e-mails and phone calls, having no heart for putting together one more bulletin or attending one more meeting, all of which feels like so much distraction from the "true" pastoral work to which they have been called. Louis Weeks challenges that paradigm and lifts up scutwork as an integral part of pastoral care and leadership. How can we administer congregations in ways most likely to increase the measure of pastoral care? How can our service, in menial and glorious work alike, build up the Body of Christ? How can all the work and worship in this congregation help God''s work in the world? Preparation, organization, and other administrative duties are crucial for effective programs and mission in a congregation as elsewhere in society. Preaching, teaching, and pastoral care--three indispensable parts of congregational life--all depend upon competent congregational administration. It is through focused attention to the details of scutwork that pastors are able to build solid relationships within the congregation, and without the trust that comes from these relationships, no true pastoral care and leadership is possible. All for God''s Glory explores ways in which churches are engaged and can engage in practices of administration that deepen care and build a healthy congregational community.
£23.75
Alban Institute, Inc Promise and Peril: Understanding and Managing
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£23.75
Alban Institute, Inc Learning the Way: Reclaiming Wisdom from the
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£30.14
Alban Institute, Inc Holy Clarity: The Practice of Planning and
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£29.36
Alban Institute, Inc Managing Polarities in Congregations: Eight Keys
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£28.50
Alban Institute, Inc The Turnaround Church: Inspiration and Tools for
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£28.97
Alban Institute, Inc The Wisdom of the Seasons: How the Church Year
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£30.34
Alban Institute, Inc The Pastoral Search Journey: A Guide to Finding
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£19.99
Alban Institute, Inc A Door Set Open: Grounding Change in Mission and
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£23.75
Alban Institute, Inc The Business of the Church: The Uncomfortable
Book SynopsisPastors are called to be not only leaders with vision, but also managers of congregational systems, says John Wimberly in The Business of the Church. Drawing on his thirty-six years in ordained ministry, Wimberly weaves the realities of congregational dynamics and faith-centered purpose together with practical, proven approaches to business management. A student and friend of Rabbi Edwin Friedman, Wimberly builds on Friedman''s systems theory as he helps readers avoid common pitfalls and put into practice effective techniques of congregational management. The book begins with a foundational discussion of how a systems approach helps congregational managers identify areas of dysfunction and effective solutions. Managing the critical ''inputs'' of people, facilities, and finances has a direct bearing on the desired ''outputs'' of proclamation, pastoral care, and mission. A strategic plan, through which a congregation sets its goals and identifies and prioritizes resources, is an essential management tool for both pastors and lay leaders. The author''s conversational writing style and many real-life examples make a seemingly complicated, mysterious topic for some an engaging and easily applicable read.
£23.75
Alban Institute, Inc Welcome to Theological Field Education!
Book SynopsisField education is an opportunity for students to develop ministry skills, practice ministerial reflection, discern their call, experience professional collegiality, and undergo personal transformation. Field education offers them a place to practice ministry and a space to reflect on it, to integrate theory and practice, and grow towards competency. In Welcome to Theological Field Education! eleven directors of field education in seminaries and divinity schools across North America pass on their wisdom to both students and their supervisors. Edited by Matthew Floding, director of field education at Western Seminary in Holland, Michigan, this volume covers critical topics such as the art of supervision and formation, the use of case studies and peer reflection groups, self-care and ministerial ethics, and assessment. Formation for ministry is especially challenging at this time in the church's life. First, the explosion of knowledge, pluralism, and consumerism and a host of other complicating factors make huge demands on what a minister must know to be effective in ministry. Second, with the erosion of thick religious subcultures, the novice minister has fewer sources of practical wisdom to draw upon. The next generation of ministers, if they are to be more fully formed for ministry, depends on skilled mentoring alongside wise supervisors. This book is the tool to help them make the most of their field education experience.
£23.75
Alban Institute, Inc Open Source Church: Making Room for the Wisdom of
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£19.99
Alban Institute, Inc Inside the Large Congregation
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£23.75
Alban Institute, Inc Scattering Seeds: Cultivating Church Vitality
Book SynopsisIn Scattering Seeds: Cultivating Church Vitality, Stephen Chapin Garner and Jerry Thornell share the story of their home congregation, the United Church of Christ in Norwell, MA. This average congregation has approached congregational life in a not-so-average way. Each congregant is seen as a minister, bringing the good news of Christ to the community; the church has moved away from boards and committees, instead utilizing the people to form ministry teams; and they have revitalized the way they approach and practice worship and education. Garner and Thornell don''t claim to have the secret to church growth and vitality, but in sharing the story of their simple church in New England, they give hope and innovative ideas to congregations in regions all over the country.
£19.99
Alban Institute, Inc Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry:
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£30.54
Alban Institute, Inc Shame-Less Lives, Grace-Full Congregations
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£30.34
Alban Institute, Inc Practicing Balance: How Congregations Can Support
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£29.14
Alban Institute, Inc Imagining the Small Church: Celebrating a Simpler
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£29.03
Alban Institute, Inc When Leadership and Spiritual Direction Meet:
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£23.75
Alban Institute, Inc Facing Decline, Finding Hope: New Possibilities
Book SynopsisChurch today isn't the same as it was fifty years agoor even ten years ago. In spite of the powerful stories of turn-around churches with skyrocketing memberships, the difficult reality is that most congregations are getting smaller. Jeffrey D. Jones asks brave questions for congregations facing this realitywhat if membership growth isn't the primary goal for a church? How can churches remain vital, even with declining attendance?Facing Decline, Finding Hope is an essential resource to help congregations confront their shrinking size while looking towards the hopeful reality that God is calling them to greater faithfulness. The book draws on biblical and theological resources, as well as contemporary leadership studies, to help leadersboth clergy and laityset aside a survival mentality and ask new questions to shape ministry more attuned to today's world.Facing Decline, Finding Hope is a powerful book for leaders who want to honestly assess the size of their church and plan for faithful, invigorating service regardless of whether membership numbers are up or down.
£23.75
Alban Institute, Inc How Your Congregation Learns: The Learning
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£23.75
Alban Institute, Inc When Leadership and Spiritual Direction Meet:
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£50.40
Alban Institute, Inc Leading Congregations and Nonprofits in a
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£50.40
Alban Institute, Inc Leading Congregations and Nonprofits in a
Book SynopsisLeading Congregations and Nonprofits in a Connected World shares emerging practices for leading and organizing congregations and nonprofits in our increasingly networked lives. Drawing on studies of congregations across denominations, and nonprofits with historic ties to faith communities, Hayim Herring and Terri Elton share practical, research-based guidance for how these organizations can more deeply engage with their communities and advance their impact in a socially connected world.
£25.00
Alban Institute, Inc Facing Decline, Finding Hope: New Possibilities
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£42.30
Alban Institute, Inc How Your Congregation Learns: The Learning
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£48.60
Alban Institute, Inc Supervising and Supporting Ministry Staff: A
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£48.60
Alban Institute, Inc Supervising and Supporting Ministry Staff: A
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£23.75
Orbis Books (USA) The Basic Guide to Young Adult Ministry / John C.
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£20.89
Orbis Books (USA) Readings in World Christian History: Vol. 1
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£33.46
Regent College Publishing,US The Christology of Early Jewish Christianity
£14.72
Regent College Publishing,US The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-1945
£20.70
Regent College Publishing,US Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character
£19.79
Regent College Publishing,US Book of Homilies
£31.50
