Church Administration category: 339 books
Managing Polarities in Congregations
Eight Keys for Thriving Faith Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
Congregations often find themselves in power struggles over two opposing views. People on both sides believe strongly that they are right. They also assume that if they are right, their opposition must be wrong--classic 'either/or' thinking. A polarity is a pair of truths that need each other over...
by Sheila Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
This is a guide to assist leadership in fine-tuning their individual ministries and to help them to function in excellence. As a person that is a Leader, but functioned in every one of these positions, I felt that it was time that I talk about what areas we can tweak and perform better and efficiently....
Looking Forward
Facing the Future of Christian Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2005
What is the most important message you have to share with young Christian leaders?
It is this question at the heart of this challenging book, posed to Christian leaders such as Tony Campolo, Tim Elmore and Jamie Arpin-Ricci. It invites readers to discover what it means to serve God and others...
Congregations as Learning Communities
Tools for Shaping Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2000
In our rapidly evolving religious scene, congregations that are open to continuous learning and willing to respond to external and internal change, will be the ones that achieve new vitality and health. Dennis Campbell describes what those congregations will look like and provides four tools to help...
Practicing Right Relationship
Skills For Deepening Purpose, Finding Fulfillment, And Increasing Effectiveness In Your Congregation
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2004
In 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...
Inside a High Council
How Salvation Army Generals are Elected
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
The international leader of The Salvation Army is elected by a High Council comprised of more than 100 of the Army’s most senior leaders from around the world.
In this book the author invites readers to step inside a typical High Council in session at the Army’s conference centre...
Web-Empowered Ministry
Connecting With People through Websites, Social Media, and More
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Let Web-Empowered Ministry be your comprehensive guide along your unique journey toward building a powerful internet ministry. You will learn the practical steps, techniques, and ideas needed to develop an excellent and effective web ministry. And learn how to apply the many tools the internet has...
Communicating Catholicism
Rhetoric, Ecclesial Leadership, and the Future of the American Roman Catholic Diocese
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Fr. Thomas Reese has observed that American Catholic dioceses are simultaneously mysterious and essential to the institutional health and vitality of American Catholicism. In recent years, as American Catholicism increasingly finds itself embroiled in scandal and conflict, this mysteriousness has...
A View From the Pew
A Tribute to Pastors
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
""There are many others who are called into many dimensions of Christian service: missionaries, evangelists, Bible teachers, Sunday school teachers, and others; but no one touches two young hands, with God, to join them in a lifetime relationship in the way that a pastor does: No one touches...
by Shaw Clifton
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
General Shaw Clifton was elected world leader of The Salvation Army in 2006.
Having retired in 2011 after five years as General, we now have from his pen and personal Journal a collection of candid autobiographical essays revealing his heart and mind, and much about the Army God raised up to span the globe.
When Moses Meets Aaron
Staffing and Supervision in Large Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
With the number of large congregations rising in the U.S., these congregations are increasingly dependent upon a greater number of staff to meet the needs of their diverse collection of members. As leaders of multi-staff teams, senior clergy must play the dual role of both Moses and Aaron—both visionary...
Saying Goodbye
A Time of Growth for Congregations and Pastors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Leaving a pastorate is hard on both congregation and pastor. Learn how to make this transition a growth experience for all. Written for congregations and pastors, Saying Goodbye skillfully weaves accounts from clergy, laity, and educators of seven denominations with White's own insight as a former...
Sunday School That Really Responds
Wisdom for Confronting Common Sunday School Emergencies
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
In this sequel to Sunday School That Really Works, Steve Parr explores twenty-four problems in organizing and teaching a Sunday school class. But he does more than present the problems; he provides practical and biblical wisdom on how the problems may be solved. The author tackles each issue using the...
by Tudor Bismark
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
You will need some people to help you: A Pharoah An Interpreter A Baker A Butler A Cup Bearer A Steward Laborers A Prison Warden Advisers Garment Makers Protectors