New hope for congregations;: A Project Test Pattern book in parish development (An Original Seabury paperback, SP 78)

Mead, Loren B.

DesPortes, Elisa L.

Project Test Pattern

Seabury Press

Navigating the treacherous waters of congregational and cultural change can be daunting, but knowing that others have come safely through those waters before can make the journey less unsettling. As founder and president of The Alban Institute, Loren Mead helped hundreds of churches steer around the shoals and whirlpools. In this new book, he reflects on what he learned over five decades of ministry and leadership, and offers inspiration for a new generation of leaders seeking to create change. • Memoir of respected and nationally known founder of The Alban Institute • Reflections on changes in congregational development theory over 40 years

The Parish Is the Issue: What I Learned and How I Learned It

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Morehouse Publishing

Critical Moment of Ministry: A Change of Pastors

Alban Inst

Book by Bolles, Richard Nelson, Ayers, Russell C., Miller, Arthur F., Mead, Loren B.

Your Next Pastorate: Starting the Search

Miller, Arthur F.

BOLLES, Richard Nelson

Ayers, Russell C.

Mead takes a broad look at past and present changes in the church, and postulates a future to which those changes are calling us. Denominations, once structured to deliver resources to far-off lands of foreign mission, now encounter the mission field in the layperson's workplace and the community surrounding the local congregation. Thus, the church is called to reinvention for this new mission frontier

The Once and Future Church: Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier (Once and Future Church Series)

Reference

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Mead explores what church growth and evangelism really mean in a time when it is mathematically impossible for every congregation to achieve significant numerical growth. He argues provocatively that spiritual, organizational, and missional growth are just as important as numerical growth, and that all four are needed for a truly healthy and growing church. Case studies and discussion questions are included.

More Than Numbers: The Ways Churches Grow

In this third volume of the Once and Future Church Series Loren Mead focuses on what he sees as the age-old call of the church - living and breathing the good news promise of spiritual transformation for all to see. He explores how we as the church may need to change as institutions and as individuals within institutions. Anyone who has read The Once and Future Church will want to explore the next step as Mead challenges us to examine the transformations inherent in God's call to renew His church.

Transforming Congregations for the Future (Once and Future Church Series)

Mead presents five key challenges facing today’s churches-and how they represent opportunities for the evolutionary, transformative changes he believes must take place in congregations if the church is to remain a viable institution into the twenty-first century. Readers of Mead's Once and Future Church and Transforming Congregations for the Future will want to continue the journey begun with those books. A must for congregational leaders at all levels.

Five Challenges for the Once and Future Church (Once and Future Church Series)

Intentionally provocative, Alban founder and former president Loren Mead's dynamic work sets out dramatic and compelling challenges for today's churches. Mead chose the word "meltdown"-a strong term, indeed-very carefully and consciously. His clarion call urges congregations to direct attention to their dwindling financial resources and their unreliable fiscal practices, and to take major action now-or face disaster in the future. Mead addresses changing church giving patterns; the inconsistent ways congregations keep financial records; the lack of coordinated short- and long-range planning; the need for knowledge of sound financial techniques such as accounting for inflation; an over-reliance on "restructuring" to fix problems; and lack of defensive planning for operational costs.

Financial Meltdown in the Mainline? (Money Faith and Leadership)

Business & Money

Finance

The Once and Future Church

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