Power-boost your team’s capacity to share faith without anxiety! Most churches and Christians target the wrong people with "evangelism" efforts. The model we use no longer works because it is passive, too polite, and focused in the wrong direction. We are not making new disciples, not adding significantly to Christ’s transformation of the world. But there is hope and practical help for churches who are ready to take a new approach. Get Their Name by Bob Farr, Kay Kotan, and Doug Anderson outlines that hope and help. The Get Their Name Workbook provides the critical next step. Church leaders can use this resource with their teams, small groups, and staff to power-boost the book’s ideas in their own church context. The workbook is formatted to function as an individual study, too. The Get Their Name Workbook: -Creates conversation starters for group discussion or personal reflection -Poses powerful questions, which can lead to honest and authentic reflection and evaluation -Encourages group participants to process the information together, increasing understanding and commitment -Stimulates calls to action, increasing the likelihood of real and sustainable change in the congregation

Get Their Name Workbook

Religion & Spirituality

Kotan, Kay

Willard, Ken

Christian Books & Bibles

ABINGDON PRESS *

This workbook is a powerful companion resource for Stride: Creating a Discipleship Pathway for Your Church (ISBN: 9781501849220), and as a standalone resource. It is for anyone wanting to grow disciples. The workbook focuses on the work individual ministry leaders must do to equip those in their ministry area to develop their own individual discipleship pathway. The original Stride shows church leaders how to create a discipleship pathway for their own congregation, a process which leads to a church full of deeply committed disciples. As disciples, we are called to do more than just learn. We are called to put our learning into action. This small group study focuses on tangible ways each of us, no matter where we find ourselves currently on our Spiritual journey, can intentionally take steps and strides closer to Jesus. This resource is perfect for small groups, Sunday school classes, men and women groups, Celebrate Recovery groups, and any Christian community wanting to help people grow as disciples of Jesus. The authors developed and launched a highly successful pathway to discipleship in their church (Morning Star United Methodist Church, St. Louis, Missouri). The Stride Participant Book is organized into nine sessions, with spiritually-rooted content for instruction and study, application exercises, and questions for reflection and discussion. The nine sessions are as follows: <ol>
<li>Introduction &amp; Discipleship Overview</li> <li>Spiritual Discipline of Prayer</li> <li>Spiritual Discipline of Scripture</li> <li>Spiritual Discipline of Serving</li> <li>Spiritual Discipline of Generosity</li> <li>Spiritual Discipline of Worship</li> <li>Spiritual Discipline of Sabbath</li> <li>Spiritual Discipline of Community</li> <li>Spiritual Discipline of Witness</li> </ol>

Stride Participant Book: Creating a Discipleship Pathway for Your Life

Schreiner, Mike

God gives each of us the same 168 hours every week. Some of us seem to use that time with incredible efficiency and power. But for many others this is an area of frustrating deficiency. Time Management for Christian Leaders challenges leaders to evaluate goals, and teaches practical techniques for improvement. Author and coach Ken Willard reveals ways we inadvertently waste time, and offers solutions in a step-by-step process at the reader’s own pace. This book is engaging, easy to read, and even entertaining. Most importantly, it is full of information that can transform the Christian leader’s ministry and life.

Time Management for the Christian Leader: Or How to Squeeze Blood from a Turnip

Stride Small Group Workbook: Creating a Discipleship Pathway for Your Life is a small group workbook, with included leader guide, for Stride: Creating a Discipleship Pathway for Your Church (ISBN: 9781501849220). Developed for use with Sunday school classes, staff teams, ministry teams, men’s groups, women’s groups, youth groups, Celebrate Recovery groups, fresh expressions groups, and any other group of people in a Christian community who are wanting to grow as disciples of Jesus. Participants will work together through nine steps of growth as disciples. Each session is packed with spiritually-rooted instruction and guidance for study, reflection, personal application and discussion.\nAs disciples, we are called to do more than just learn. We are called to put our learning into action. Stride Small Group Workbook: Creating a Discipleship Pathway for Your Life focuses on tangible ways each of us, no matter where we find ourselves currently on our Spiritual journey, can intentionally take steps and stride closer to Jesus

Stride Small Group Workbook: Creating a Discipleship Pathway for Your Life

Church Ecology invites readers that God has in fact created us to be more than we have become. Called by Christ to discipleship, we are the true heirs of Christ. We are called to share the gifts that God has given to each of us on behalf of the whole community so that we can more effectively be the body of Christ in and for the world today. As a part of that call, we have a responsibility to discover, and sometimes re-discover, those whom God has gifted for leadership and invite them to prIn Church Ecology, the authors lay out a practical step-by-step approach to creating a leadership pathway that is grounded in scripture and prayer. Their creative, reflective process and practical suggestions invite all who participate to remember who they are in Christ. They invite us to be curious about current leadership development processes, curious about what those processes could be, curious about the journey - past, present, and future - and curious about past, present, and future capacity for fruitfulness. They invite us to ask questions and they ask us questions, coaching us to determine the next appropriate action step for our unique church situation. They also remind us that a leadership pathway for a community should not be built or created by one person, but a diverse small group of persons who are passionate about growing a healthy and generative church ministry, outreach, and witness.Church Ecology invites us to anticipate and prepare for future leadership in the church. Instead of leaving the development of church leadership up to happenstance, Ken and Kelly invite us to anticipate and to prepare for future leadership through an intentional process of creating a leadership pathway that empowers us to live a healthy, balanced life with Christ and one another as the church. Developing a leadership pathway serves to open up endless possibilities for us to be one with Christ, one with each other, and one in God's transforming ministry to all the world - not just for the moment but for the future.

Church Ecology: Creating a Leadership Pathway for Your Church

Brown, Kelly

Market Square Publishing

Many churches do a good job at planning activities, but this is often not producing the effective and fruitful ministries churches had hoped for or expected. Instead, churches must go beyond planning activities to intentional and strategic planning for the church to be faithful to its mission.As Lisa Greenwood writes, "Kay and Ken are challenging leaders to take time to pay attention to what God is doing and saying in their community and in their own lives, so the church can focus on the difference God is calling them to make." This detailed and practical resource provides the step by step process for preparing, conducting, and following up for strategic ministry planning retreats that will lead your church into more effective, focused, and fruitful ministry.

Strategy Matters: Your Roadmap for an Effective Ministry Planning Retreat

"So, what do you do?" "Where are you going?" This book will focus on the "what," the "why," and the "where" of your greatest expedition. These three questions are closely connected in ministry. They are also the questions that too many churches have lost sight of over the years. Pause now, and consider these questions from your personal church experience. Think about a specific church where you spent the most amount of time, a church where you were very involved in the leadership aspects of that ministry. Now record your answers to these questions: What was it that church did? Why did that church do what it did? Where was that church going? Now imagine we were somehow able to gather all of the other people who were in leadership in that church you thought of a minute ago, along with all of the other people in the congregation, and those in the mission field around that church, and asked them also to answer each of those same three questions. What do you think those responses would look like? Mostly the same? Lots of consistency, but with different words and phrases? (Hallelujah!) Or do you think everyone would have a different response to each of the questions? Would many people not even be able to answer the questions? That is much more likely in our experience working with churches. Unfortunately, too many people do not know what their church does, why they do it, or where the ministry is going. This may be the reason so many churches are struggling today. So, let's see what we can do to put you and your church in a place where you can be fruitful in your ministry!

The What, Why & Where of the New Expedition: The Greatest Expedition

All churches have core values. Your ministry, no matter how old or how new, is operating now with a set of values. Our role as leaders in the church is to invest the time and energy to identify those values and to use them wisely as we make ministry decisions and guide us toward God's vision. Even with a system in place to let you know when you are straying beyond one or more of your core values, you will likely face storms in your ministry which could put those systems at risk. The core values you discern for your ministry are too important for you to let anything distract you or force you to cross over the line. While it is true that all churches have core values, Author Ken Willard thinks there would be very few of them that have ever gone through a process of intentional discernment to identify those values. Having this book in your hands means that you are going where few ministry leaders have gone before. This journey is too important for you to take it on your own. Chapters include:? What Do I Pack?? Preparation? Let's Get Started? Discerning the Core Values? Core Value Discernment (Prayer, Research, Survey, Leadership, Assemble, Communicate, Live Into)

Identifying Core Values of the New Expedition (The Greatest Expedition)

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