Let Web-Empowered Ministry be your comprehensive guide along your unique journey toward building a powerful internet ministry. You will learn the practical steps, techniques, and ideas needed to develop an excellent and effective web ministry. And learn how to apply the many tools the internet has to offer including websites, smart phones, social networking, media, instant messaging, and more to extend and multiply your ministry impact.Mark’s engaging style makes technolog...

Over the past ten years, the North American mission field has experienced dramatic changes, which in turn have required congregations, middle judicatories, and denominations to adapt. Among these adaptations is an expectation for clear goals and quantified progress towards those goals. Church leaders who have never needed to measure their goals and progress with metrics may find this change daunting. The use of metrics-denominational and middle judicatory dashboards, and the tracking of co...

Church boards are often the scene of confusion, conflict, and chaos. What’s the job of a board? What’s the role of the pastor in relation to the board? Should there be an elder board and an administrative board? Ted Hull’s use of illustrations and analogies bring these questions—and answers—into focus.Ted first looks at the foundation of governance, both from a biblical and historic perspective. Then he introduces Policy Governance®, often referred to as the Carver model, ...

What would you do, as a pastor or ministry leader, if you had insight, directives, and keys to effectively nurture your membership, despite your church's resources, size, or current challenges? There is no need to wonder, guess, or assume with the unveiling of this timeless, profound, compelling, and transforming book by Dr. E. Dewey Smith, Jr. Maximizing Your Membership is an eye-opening journey on the road to not only church membership, growth, and retention, but also a unique handbook o...

To develop an art is to develop an ability or a skill. The Bible states that favor comes to men of skill. The work of ministry demands great ability. This new book "The Art of Ministry" is a much-needed resource for all who desire to do the work of ministry. It clearly presents what is the right and wrong thinking of ministry, what is required of you as a worker in ministry and how to perform the tasks of a minister. This exceptional book by the famous Pastor Dag Heward-Mills will challeng...

Once upon a time, there were two churches.One did not pay attention to putting in place good procedures. They will pay a sad price for the lack of internal controls.Another church develops some good procedures, which prevent those troubles. They also are safe when attacked by anonymous accusations.You may be thinking, "why should we bother with all that internal control stuff in our local church? After all, our finance staff is very good at what they do. We trust th...

Church leaders and financial executives are saddled with the responsibility of broad range of decision making which have financial implications. However, many Church leaders and executives are not experts in financial management. Understanding some basic issues and principles surrounding financial management and decisions is to appreciate the value of rationale thoughts. This book is designed to show what to do about what is presented. The reader is encouraged to respond to the teachings b...

Essential guide to identify real-world issues and conflicts facing congregations and their leaders and strategies to adapt.The Fly in the Ointment is an important resource for churches and church leaders as they explore how to transform themselves into vital, flourishing organizations. That transformation requires deep, systemic change on the part of regional associations, such as dioceses, presbyteries, synods, and conferences—the bodies that are meant to...

Managing Up: Doing It Gods Way came about as Venita was seeking ways to improve her work performance. Not only did her research and private study time result in the writing of this book, it also brought out that her foundational Scripture for her work performance was already intertwined in this concept.Managing Up: Doing It Gods Way will not only benefit the office assistant but any person in the workforce, because it emphasizes how a personal relationship with Jesus Christ can and...

Easter is the biggest Sunday of the year—is your church ready? Forget the ham or lamb debate, church communicators need to plan, promote and keep their sanity. That can be a challenge with limited time and budget, as well as a culture that doesn’t engage with Easter.But this is the story of our salvation, when what began at Christmas culminates in the greatest story ever told. From Ash Wednesday to egg drops, the Easter celebrations can be varied—but the stakes are just as high. Af...

More Than Just a Job puts forth a vision for the Body of Christ that was first stated by Jesus Christ in His Great Commission, which calls us to go into the whole world and preach the gospel. The focus is on the marketplace, the arena in which most people spend the majority of their time and the place where the gospel is needed most. The author shares a multitude of insights from his experience, the experiences of others, the Bible, world leaders, and key writers as he develops hi...

This is the true story of a father's struggle within a close knit, relationship based Christian group whose Assemblies are spread across the USA. The story starts just before the eighty year old fundamental Bible-based group suffers a sudden hostile takeover, as mind control techniques are deployed by a long standing minister who just retired from his mysterious job at a government weapons development center.It is the most disturbing time of Rhett's life as the group fragments and ...