Facilitation Skills for Ministry
Facilitation Skills for Ministry

Author: Jo Whitehead

Publisher: SPCK

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 028106878X

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This book is designed for those who wish to encourage and empower through their leadership skills. Facilitation is about managing process - drawing people in, enabling them to contribute and holding the boundaries and values of a context to create a safe and productive place. Many ministry training courses do not teach facilitation skills per se and ministers are often left to learn on the job. Some become effective facilitators through reflection on their practice, others develop tacit skills. Many others flounder when it comes to facilitating effectively and participatively. In a culture where ministry roles increasingly involve community involvement and working with congregations who expect to participate in decision making and ministry, this skill set is one that is increasingly needed. This is particularly important in pioneer contexts where a more team-based approach is the norm.

Skills for Collaborative Ministry
Skills for Collaborative Ministry

Author: Paul Nash

Publisher: SPCK

Published: 2012-06-08

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 0281066086

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Contemporary mission and ministry, as well as best practice in secular government, emphasize partnership and working together. Yet this can be easier said than done. At its best, working together brings energy and synergy and enables you to achieve something you could never do alone. At its worst, it's a nightmare that you may well wish you had never got into. Skills for Collaborative Ministry will help you to work more effectively with other people, both inside and outside of the Church. Each chapter focuses on a particular skill - such as team building, facilitation, diversity skills, conflict resolution and evaluation techniques - outlines the theory and the theology behind it, and gives practical guidance and advice. Written by an experienced team, the book includes exercises for both individuals and groups, along with a range of ideas that can be adapted to your own context. It will enable you to work collaboratively with confidence and skill.

What Is Wrong with People?!
What Is Wrong with People?!

Author: Mark Lutz

Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group

Published: 2015-02-03

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1634132718

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Many of us are stunned by the increasingly outrageous behavior of some people and the indifference those folks have about the effect their actions have upon the rest of us. Others of us are discouraged by our own stuckness regarding some issue. And then there are those caring individuals who try to help others only to watch them struggle and fail over and over. These helpers experience their compassion slowly turning to frustration and hopelessness. What Is Wrong With People?! avoids the two extremes that often result in greater pain and confusion; over simplistic answers to complex situations and making things unnecessarily complicated and overwhelming. In these pages you'll read about four conditions (not one, not forty) that people can find themselves in. Learn the remedies to each of these conditions and experience the freedom and empowerment that comes from embracing a complete solution. Learn the secret to what is wrong with people!

Making Parish Councils Pastoral
Making Parish Councils Pastoral

Author: Mark F. Fischer

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780809146765

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Making Parish Councils Pastoral traces the historical development of the ôpastoralö style of council and shows how councils can more effectively embrace the church's vision of studying and reflecting on parish matters and recommending their conclusions to the pastor.

Collaborative Ministry
Collaborative Ministry

Author: Loughlan Sofield

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780877933601

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Collaborative or shared ministry is a topic of growing interest arising out of a call to all Christians to share their gifts in ministry. The authors focus on the necessary skills, the obstacles, the methods of organizing, the use of leadership, and the management and possible resolution of conflict.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Small Group Ministry
The Seven Deadly Sins of Small Group Ministry

Author: Bill Donahue

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2009-08-30

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0310864046

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Assessment and solution for seven commonobstacles to building small groups.It’s one thing to start a small group ministry. It’s another tokeep the groups in your church healthy and headed in thesame direction. Whatever your church’s approach maybe—whether it is a church with groups or of groups—sooner or later, as a leader, you’ll need to do sometroubleshooting. That’s when the expert, to-the-pointguidance in this book will prove its worth.The beauty of this book lies in its unique diagnosticprocess. It allows you to assess, diagnose, and correctseven common “deadly sins” that can drain the life fromyour church’s small group ministry.In The Seven Deadly Sins of Small Group Ministry, whatwould take you years to learn through trial and error isdistilled into some of the most useful information you canfind. Drawing on the knowledge they’ve gleaned fromworking inside Willow Creek Community Church, fromconsulting with hundreds of churches, and fromconducting conferences and seminars worldwide, smallgroup experts Bill Donahue and Russ Robinson furnishyou with proven, real-life solutions to the toughestproblems in your small group ministry. This is not theory—it is hands-on material you can read and apply today.

Church Ministry by Design
Church Ministry by Design

Author: Gary H. Woolverton

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2011-08

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 1617774138

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Packed with detailed looks into the makeup of a church community, Church Ministry By Design powerfully presents a step-by-step biblical guide to organizing and effectively running a church. The church of the 21st century has a number of challenges facing it, not all of them spiritual. How the staff handles the enormity of local regulations, social pressures, and legislation will affect the way ministry is done. Church Ministry by Design provides a blueprint for organizing the church for the future, and addresses a large number of ministries the church may choose to provide for its community. Author and pastor Gary H. Woolverton brings together information that assists the staff of the church in developing, maintaining, and evaluating effective ministry and is designed to help the church thrive in the 21st century. Watch for the continuation of this ministry, as the next volume in the series, Position Descriptions by Design, is released soon.