Creative Church Bulletin Boards
Creative Church Bulletin Boards

Author: Rosalind M. Townley

Publisher: CSS Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 0788023594

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Do church bulletin boards have to be dull and boring? Not if you have Creative Church Bulletin Boards in hand! The uplifting, thought-provoking theme messages presented in this practical how-to guide will both educate and entertain your entire congregation. Capturing the attention of media-jaded children - and adults - is much easier when the message of our faith is displayed in eye-catching splashes of color and design, rather than in faded construction paper or dry memos. Packed with unique design ideas that will spark your creativity, Creative Church Bulletin Boards offers plenty of specific advice on shopping for supplies and keeping expenses within a limited budget, as well as detailed directions for using a wide variety of non-conventional tools to mount interesting items. You'll learn how to put together attractive displays that reinforce Christian teachings on subjects such as trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, and caring. Material appropriate for both general use and specific seasons throughout the year is provided, with plenty of possible slogans or phrases for you to choose from. And to help you get started, each grouping includes a thorough discussion of one example along with a picture and explicit step-by-step instructions for assembling the board. Creative Church Bulletin Boards gives you everything you need to put a powerful but often overlooked evangelism tool to work in your church! This book is the launching point for rediscovering the importance of the time-honored, non-electron-based truth that bulletin boards can help us relate God's message in new ways. What hope and joy to enter the church building and find there a bulletin board catching the eye with beauty, humor, and creativity, warming the heart with a sign of God's love and connection. A creative bulletin board may not get people in the building, but it can help keep them coming once they are there. June Stitzinger-Clark Pastor, Christ United Methodist Church Lakewood, New Jersey Disaster Response Coordinator, Greater New Jersey Annual Conference Rosalind M. Townley lives in Wenonah, New Jersey, where she is an active member of Wenonah United Methodist Church. She is a former schoolteacher and a graduate of Lycoming College. About the Author June Stitzinger-Clark Pastor, Christ United Methodist Church Lakewood, New Jersey Disaster Response Coordinator, Greater New Jersey Annual Conference Rosalind M. Townley lives in Wenonah, New Jersey, where she is an active member of Wenonah United Methodist Church. She is a former schoolteacher and a graduate of Lycoming College.

Tweet If You Heart Jesus
Tweet If You Heart Jesus

Author: Elizabeth Drescher

Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2011-05

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0819224235

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Social media has ushered in a dramatic global shift in the nature of faith, social consciousness, and relationships. How do churches navigate the Digital Reformation? Tweet If You Heart Jesus brings the wisdom of ancient and medieval Christianity into conversation with contemporary theories of cultural change and the realities of social media, all to help churches navigate a landscape where faith, leadership, and community have taken on new meanings.

Divergent Church
Divergent Church

Author: Tim Shapiro

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1501842609

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New faith communities are appearing across the U.S.. Many of them bear little resemblance—on the surface—to ‘church’ in its conventional form. But when we look a little deeper we see striking continuity with the most deeply rooted practices of the Christian faith in community. What are those practices? What do these unconventional, alternative faith communities look like? How are they, perhaps, indicators of a hopeful new future for the church? And what can we learn from them? Authors Kara Brinkerhoff and Tim Shapiro spent more than a year researching and exploring these questions, closely examining the life of a dozen alternative faith communities across the country. They include new monastic communities, food-oriented communities, affinity group communities, house churches, hybrid churches and others. They are creative, ingenious, innovative, clever, dynamic and transformative. But they represent human expressions of activities that have always been part of human religious congregations: hospitality, learning, storytelling, care, leadership, worship and honoring place. This fascinating book goes beyond simply analyzing current trends. It reveals how innovative Christians are engaging in time-honored practices, creating new types of communities, which will shape the church to come. Further, it shows us how we too might innovate while holding true to the essential practices of our gathered faith. This is an instructive picture of Christian community, past, present and future.

The Bible Food Truck
The Bible Food Truck

Author: Vanessa Myers

Publisher:

Published: 2022-01-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781734211740

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Are you ready to go on a food truck adventure with God? The Bible Food Truck takes you for a ride through the entire Word of God as you learn different stories about food, drinks, and fasting. You will weave your way through the Old Testament and the New Testament, making stops in different books of the Bible to learn about how food played a role in the story. These short devotions can be done with your family at dinner or first thing in the morning as you head off to school. Each devotion contains Scripture verses, prayer, and a "Faith To-Go" section that helps you live out your faith in God every day. You will also have the fun opportunity to create your own food truck ministry! Designing a food truck that you can use to serve God will be a way to connect the stories with serving the Lord. Climb aboard and buckle up! It's time to encounter God on the Bible Food Truck!

The Gentle + Classical Preschool
The Gentle + Classical Preschool

Author: Erin Cox

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-04-20

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781987438444

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This 26 Unit preschool curriculum, designed for your 2-4 year old child, helps you develop a rhythm and creates a gentle opportunity to include learning opportunities without creating additional work for Mom. This program was created to help you seize fruitful opportunities in these young years without making learning a chore for mom or child. The Gentle + Classical Preschool includes memory statements for each unit that covers the subjects of: Science (animals and plants), Social Studies (our family, community and American history), Character Traits or Catechism (Patience, Attention, Obedience, and more), Scripture (Christian Bible), Health + Safety (also including chores and self-care), Math (including shapes, colors, counting to 30, skip-counting, etc), Gross + Fine Motor Skill Activities, Language Arts (including many nursery rhymes). Plus a letter to focus on each unit. As the Parent/Teacher, you receive guided instruction for each unit, tips and tricks, help with scheduling, information about beginning reading skills, narration... and so much more. Join the other 10,000+ families who have received this program!

Creative Ministry Bulletin Boards
Creative Ministry Bulletin Boards

Author: Cindy Schooler

Publisher: Legacy Press

Published: 1999-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781885358943

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Here is the answer to every church's needs! This series of easy-to-do, attractive bulletin board ideas includes plenty of patterns, borders and lettering, In addition, each Bible-based bulletin board includes church fellowship ideas to provide extended ministry opportunities. The series includes every holiday and church observance to provide display choices throughout each season. Reproducible.

Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2017-2020: Complete Set with Slipcase & Online Access
Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2017-2020: Complete Set with Slipcase & Online Access

Author: General Board Of Discipleship

Publisher: Cokesbury

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 1686

ISBN-13: 1501830120

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"The local church is to minister to persons in the community where the church is located, to provide appropriate training and nurture to all, to cooperate in ministry with other local churches, to defend God's creation and live as an ecologically responsible community, and to participate in the worldwide mission of the church." — Book of Discipline 2012 ¶202 The twenty-six Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2017-2020, one for each ministry area, cover church leadership areas, as well as areas focused on nurture, outreach, and witness. The booklets are tools that get new lay leaders off to a good start and as a reference resource for all lay leaders. Each booklet includes the basic "job description" for the leader as well as practical "how-to" information important to implementing ministry effectively. Brief and to the point making it a perfect resource for the busy, but spirit-led leader. eBook Edition allows you download a digital file of all 26 Guidelines to your eReader for personal use. Include Guidelines included in Sets and sold separately are: Adult Ministries Advocates for Inclusiveness Children's Ministries Christian Education Church Council Church Historian Church & Society Communications Evangelism Family Ministries Finance Higher Education & Campus Ministry Lay Leader/Lay Member Men's Ministries Ministries With Young People Mission Nominations & Leadership Development Pastor Pastor-Parish Relations Scouting & Civil Youth-Serving Ministry Small Group Ministries Small Membership Church Stewardship Trustees Women's Ministries Worship

Guidelines Mission
Guidelines Mission

Author: General Board Global Ministries

Publisher: Cokesbury

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 1501829793

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Depending on how a congregation is organized, the ministry area may be called global ministries, mission or outreach ministries. The role of this ministry area is to develop a continuous, year-round program of mission education. Leadership of this ministry area identifies the needs of the community, country, and world and engages the congregation in mission opportunities that seek to address these needs. It also seeks to expand your congregation’s mission and benevolence budget and ensure that your congregation is provided every opportunity to participate financially in God’s mission through the church. This Guideline is designed to help implement the work of the ministry area. This is one of the twenty-six Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2017-2020 that cover church leadership areas including Church Council and Small Membership Church; the administrative areas of Finance and Trustees; and ministry areas focused on nurture, outreach, and witness including Worship, Evangelism, Stewardship, Christian Education, age-level ministries, Communications, and more.