Creating Caring Communities
Author: United States. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
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The Caring Congregation Ministry Implementation Guide
Author: Karen Lampe
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1791013392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPastors and church leaders genuinely want to care for people in their congregations and communities. But pastors cannot care for an entire church, and most laypersons don't have the training to do it. The Caring Congregation Ministry is a model for person-to-person care that's been proven to work in small and large churches across the U.S. It is a laity-centered ministry, where laypersons receive rigorous training and then are commissioned to serve as Congregational Care Ministers, caring for others in their own congregation and their extended community. This remarkable approach to congregational care was first developed by author Karen Lampe and her team at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, in Kansas City. It has been tested, refined, and strengthened, and is now being adapted in all sorts of congregational settings. One early adapter was co-author Melissa Gepford, who launched a Caring Congregation Ministry in her own rural church. Together, they have created this immensely practical guide for any pastor or leader seeking to create a congregational care ministry. This Implementation Guide is the main book for getting started. It introduces the ministry model and explains the Five Essentials which form the ministry's foundation. It is extremely practical, full of checklists and other tools to help pastors and other leaders understand (and explain) this way of providing congregational care. The Implementation Guide also includes a section focused on the crucial component of this ministry–the Congregational Care Minister, or CCM. This section fully describes the characteristics of CCM's, how to recruit people to this ministry, how to discern if candidates are a good fit, and how to conduct the CCM training over a multi-week period. It details the critical information CCM's must know, and the behaviors and habits they must practice in order to be effective. Note that the companion book, The Caring Congregation Ministry: Care Minister's Manual, is required for the CCM training. It serves as a training workbook, which then becomes the CCM's personal reference manual.
The Caring Community
Author: Ed D. Trudie Kibbe Reed
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1440170479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTRUDIE KIBBE REED is the fifth President of the GREAT Bethune-Cookman University, and first women to serve in this capacity since founding president, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. Residing in Daytona Beach, Florida, Dr. Reed maintains a challenging career and still finds the time to provide leadership to struggling congregations. An expert in Transformative Leadership, she is noted for radically transforming systems and organizations, based on the techniques discussed in this book. She is credited with launching the first Master of Science Program in Transformative Leadership, elevating Bethune-Cookman to its current university status in February '07. Dr. Reed pulls from a wealth of experience that includes two presidencies at the college/university level, as well as a member of the General Secretariat of a women's advocacy organization, and over 18 years in various top-tier rankings of The United Methodist Church administration. Dr. Reed serves on the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of The United Methodist Church. Dr. Reed earned her doctoral degree in Adult and Higher Education from Teacher's College, Columbia University in New York, NY.
Saving America?
Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-11-06
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1400832063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order creating the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This action marked a key step toward institutionalizing an idea that emerged in the mid-1990s under the Clinton administration--the transfer of some social programs from government control to religious organizations. However, despite an increasingly vocal, ideologically charged national debate--a debate centered on such questions as: What are these organizations doing? How well are they doing it? Should they be supported with tax dollars?--solid answers have been few. In Saving America? Robert Wuthnow provides a wealth of up-to-date information whose absence, until now, has hindered the pursuit of answers. Assembling and analyzing new evidence from research he and others have conducted, he reveals what social support faith-based agencies are capable of providing. Among the many questions he addresses: Are congregations effective vehicles for providing broad-based social programs, or are they best at supporting their own members? How many local congregations have formal programs to assist needy families? How much money do such programs represent? How many specialized faith-based service agencies are there, and which are most effective? Are religious organizations promoting trust, love, and compassion? The answers that emerge demonstrate that American religion is helping needy families and that it is, more broadly, fostering civil society. Yet religion alone cannot save America from the broad problems it faces in providing social services to those who need them most. Elegantly written, Saving America? represents an authoritative and evenhanded benchmark of information for the current--and the coming--debate.
Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities
Author: Jeanne Hoeft
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2013-07-01
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0800699548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPastoral care in rural communities is different from care in other locales. Despite these differences, rural churches and communities also hold a particular wisdom from which the rest of the church might benefit. Small towns and rural areas have particular challenges, and in seeking to live out the Christian life in the midst of those, local churches have unique and useful insights into what it means to care for one another.
How to Attract and Keep Active Church Members
Author: Donald P. Smith
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780664251406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study of church growth and membership retention, Smith argues that if a church is to survive, it must concentrate on keeping its present members as well as attracting new ones. Interviewing people from 600 churches of various sizes and reviewing the causes of membership decline and retention in those churches, Smith asserts that churches must meet members' needs in order to attract and keep them.
Pastoral Care in the Small Membership Church
Author: James L. Killen
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 0687343267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to pastoral care for pastors of small membership churches. "If you spend your whole life serving small membership churches and doing it well, yours will have been a life well spent." Small membership churches have a real advantage when it comes to incorporating people into a fellowship where they are known and where their needs are met. These churches and their pastors have an opportunity for excellence in this area, and should make the most of it. Good pastoral care can be the key to effectiveness in all of the other ministries of the church.From getting acquainted with your congregation, weddings and funerals, picking up on subtle cues in a conversation to not-so-subtle conflicts, Killen shares insights from years of ministry in a small membership church setting. James L. Killen, Jr. is a retired elder of the Texas Conference, contributor to Circuit Rider, and author of Who Do You Say That I Am? A Personal Reader.
Care-full Preaching
Author: G. Lee Ramsey Jr.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1725231018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Care-full Preaching, G. Lee Ramsey, Jr., offers a new vision for how sermons can energize all members of a congregation to care for one another. Using fresh images and sermons from Fred Craddock, James Forbes, Gina Stewart, Barbara Brown Taylor, and himself, Ramsey demonstrates in practical ways how sermons can create a caring community.
The Caring Congregation
Author: Karen Lampe
Publisher:
Published: 2014-08-19
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781426793127
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Caring School Leadership
Author: Mark A. Smylie
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2020-01-03
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1544320132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrinciples and possibilities to inform and inspire caring in your leadership practices! Do you feel like something is missing in today’s schools? Do you feel student success is too focused on academic accountability, test scores, and college readiness? Recalibrate your leadership with the help of this book to promote the practice of caring which, with academic rigor, is essential to effective schooling. Caring School Leadership is a research-based collection of ideas, principles, and values illustrated with numerous examples and stories that will inform, inspire, and guide you. Evaluate your current leadership practice and evolve to lead in the way to which you aspire. In addition to insights and lessons about caring from educators and human service professions like nursing and ministry, readers will be introduced to themes of · Caring in interpersonal relationships with students · Cultivating schools as caring environments · Fostering caring in families and communities
