Upper Room: 255 books
Lay Servants as Christian Transformational Leaders
Participant's Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Building on the congregational strategic planning resource, “Does Your Church Have a Prayer?” this Participant’s Book will guide Lay Servants seeking to be more empowered to lead their congregations toward vitality. Written with two distinct purposes, Lay Servants as Christian Transformational...
African Religion
The Quarry of the Rock of Monotheism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Worldwide scholarship has established the fact that Africa is the cradle land of humanity. Dr. Kurewa promotes the theory that African Religion could very easily have been the proto-religion of humanity, and a religion from which other monotheistic religions, such as Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity,...
Woman Overboard
How Passion Saved My Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Woman Overboard, Kadlecek explores the meaning of passion through the lens of her own life. Follow her from a middle-class, suburban existence bordering on tedium to a life awakened to the gifts in and around her, a life that embraces the new and unexpected. Discover with her the paradoxes of pain...
An African Pilgrimage on Evangelism
A Historical Study of the Various Approaches to Evangelism in Africa (100-2000CE)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
How easily we forget that it was Africans who brought the gospel to Africa, not foreign missionaries! Evangelism has always been central to African Christianity, ever since Egyptians and Libyans returned home from Jerusalem following the day of Pentecost (Acts 2). In this brief history of the...
Labouring Side by Side
The Local Church as the Most Significant Arena for Disciple-Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
The ministry of evangelism is at its best when it occurs in and through the local church, experienced by members at the local church level. Through the local church, Christians learn to discern the voice of the Good Shepherd, and when they know the voice of the Good Shepherd, they easily run away...
Living Our Beliefs
The United Methodist Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
You can believe anything and be a Methodist, just so long as you're sincere. Such a misperception has deep historical and cultural roots. Explore a basic explanation of the beliefs and practices of the United Methodist Church as defined in Part II of The Book of Discipline. Uncover a...
by Craig A. Satterlee, Lester Ruth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Creative preaching can help you move the sacraments to the center of your congregation's spirituality by making scripture, personal experience, and the sacraments intersect in such a way that a wealth of meanings surfaces. Satterlee and Ruth seek to expand the range of meanings and associations people...
Each One a Minister
Using God's Gifts for Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
*Each One a Minister**, a revised and enlarged edition of Carter's previous book by the same title, begins with a six-session study of Ephesians. Carter engages the reader in discovering the meaning of church, ministry and gifts from the early church up to the present. As a follow-up to the Bible...
by Mark Stamm
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
A resource for both newcomers to the United Methodist Church and those who have been members for decades, Our Membership Vows is a wonderful reflection on the vows each member takes upon joining the church. Members make covenant to uphold the vows, and each one is discussed in this easy-to-read booklet. A great gift idea for churches to give to new members.
by Branson L. Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
A brief overview of United Methodist history, beliefs, organization, missions, and interpretation of the membership vows. Great for new members or for ongoing training.
Blessed to be a Blessing
Sacred Circle Time for Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Blessed to be a Blessing: Sacred Circle Time for Young Children is designed specifically for young children using a simple-but-effective model that will move them beyond "learning about God" to "experiencing God" through ritual, wonder, story, prayer, and blessing. Dr. Leanne Hadley provides all the...
Devoting Ourselves to the Prayers
A Baptismal Theology for the Church's Intercessory Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Dr. Stamm integrates the biblical, theological, and pastoral insight fitting of a liturgical scholar-pastor as he attempts to improve and deepen the church's congregational practice of intercessory prayer. In Devoting Ourselves to the Prayers: A Baptismal Theology for the Church's Intercessory Work,...
Viral Multiplication In Hispanic Churches
How to Plant and Multiply Disciple-Making Hispanic Churches in Twenty-first Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Reverend Iosmar Alvarez created this book to teach church planting leaders how to plant new, healthy, vital, and vibrant churches with multiplication DNA. Using scripture-grounded values, principles, and the author's own testimony, this book will help reach both new and diverse Hispanic/Latino people, as well as other cultures and contexts
Moving in Harmony
An Updated Polity for the United Methodist Church in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In order to fully appreciate the good of the UMC polity, the people called United Methodists need to work together, moving in harmony, and using the same church processes. In this book, Rev. Bondo provides the most relevant and up-to-date information from The Book of Discipline 2008 to the African...