Church Administration category: 339 books
Sunday School that Really Excels
Real Life Examples of Churches with Healthy Sunday Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Adult Sunday school can effectively increase the health of a church, and foster community and spiritual formation among its participants. Sunday Schools That Really Excel is a revealing look at actual churches with adult fellowships that not only survive but thrive. No matter the setting or challenges...
Doing the Math of Mission
Fruits, Faithfulness, and Metrics
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Over the past ten years, the North American mission field has experienced dramatic changes, which in turn have required congregations, middle judicatories, and denominations to adapt. Among these adaptations is an expectation for clear goals and quantified progress towards those goals. Church leaders...
ReLaunch
How to Stage an Organizational Comeback
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
A church in deep debt with attendance down by the thousands. A college that had lapsed into a coma, its buildings in shambles, its faculty demoralized, its enrollment at rock bottom. A university facing lawsuits, scandal, and near-bankruptcy. Each situation involved different financial needs, different...
Leading Leaders
Empowering Church Boards for Ministry Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
The key to effective leadership in the vast majority of today's churches lies as much with their governing boards as it does with their pastor. But many churches are lead by those who volunteer to chair committees because there is a need, yet they have no leadership training to speak of. How can well-meaning...
by A. W. Tozer, CrossReach Publications
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
This book has been described by James L. Snyder as Tozer's valedictory. It was his last message ever given to God's people. Written shortly before his death in 1963, it was published two days after his death. It is a challenging message to all who want to walk with Christ. "HERE IS THE BURDEN of...
The Didache (English and Greek text)
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Didache is one of the earliest Christian documents outside the New Testament, probably written in the late first or early second century AD. It deals with early Christian teaching on ethics, baptism, fasting, the eucharist and church life. An incredibly important and illuminating primary source...
by Chalice Press
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Program & Business materials for the 2015 General Assembly of the Christian Church Disciple of Christ.
Welcome to a time of inspiration and equipping for Disciples in Columbus, Ohio. Our foundational scripture for this gathering is Isaiah 40, particularly verse 31, where we are promised...
The Ministry Staff Member
A Contemporary, Practical Handbook to Equip, Encourage, and Empower
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2009
“When are you going to become a real pastor?”“When are you going to get your own church?”“How long will you be here?”During his thirty-one years serving in churches across the country, Doug Fagerstrom has both known the joys of being a ministry staff member and experienced many misconceptions...
Values-Driven Leadership
Discovering and Developing Your Core Values for Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
What are the core values of your ministry?
Values-Driven Leadership is a pioneering work designed to help church and parachurch leaders understand the cutting-edge concept of organizational core values. Every ministry organization has a set of core values that guides what the ministry seeks...
Growing True Disciples
New Strategies for Producing Genuine Followers of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Christ’s command to the church is clear: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations...” It is in building disciples--helping others to embrace Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, mature in him, and then lead others to do the same--that the Kingdom grows. And when the Kingdom grows, churches...
A Pastor's Toolbox
Management Skills for Parish Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Today’s parish leaders are expected to be holy and prayerful spiritual guides, great preachers and compassionate confessors, but also to make important decisions in key areas like finance, budgeting, hiring and firing, fundraising, risk management, relationship-building, and more—often with virtually...
Promise and Peril
Understanding and Managing Change and Conflict in Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
Congregations cannot exist without finances, priorities, leadership, worship, and decision making, yet these five aspects breed the most conflict between church members and clergy. These conflicts unfortunately tend to bring about the most negative consequences: drops in giving, resignation of leaders,...
The In-Between Church
Navigating Size Transitions in Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Alban Senior Consultant Mann draws on her lengthy experience in helping congregations deal with the hurdles and anxieties of expansion or contraction in size. Often, congregations experiencing size change do not recognize the need to change culture and form as part of the successful adaptation process....
Synergistic Collaborations
Pastoral Care and Church Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Synergistic Collaborations is a valuable resource for Christian ministers and social workers seeking to extend outreach ministries and new ways to collaborate with community organizations as they serve hurting people. This unique book combines case studies, theological reflections, reality dialogue...