A Relational Approach to FundraisingFor many people, fundraising has become a dirty word. Conjuring images of guilt-inducing gimmickry, the predominant model saps the joy from both the donor and the receiver. But what if fundraising has the potential to be good for the giver, not just the recipient? What if it's about love and service, not just "What's in it for me?"These are the questions that Peter Greer, president and CEO of Hope International, ...

Good relationships lie at the heart of every successful organization. Yet no relationship is more important—or more challenging—to navigate than the one between the board and the CEO. In this practical and concise book, Peter Greer and David Weekley draw from their years of experience to equip board members and organizational leaders to enter into an impactful, life-giving partnership. With this pivotal relationship in place, individuals and the organizations they serve can truly flourish....

Money is not the only currency your ministry can use to become sustainable, grow, and thrive. In Holy Currencies, author Eric H.F. Law teaches us how the six currencies of time and place, gracious leadership, relationship, truth, wellness, and money flow through successful missional ministries. He shows how these blessings are exchanged into other currencies, forming what he calls the “Cycle of Blessings.” Learn how to use this sequence of exchanges to rejuvenate, recirculate, regenerate, ...

This foundational book will equip each believer with the basic steps to a life-transforming, deeper intimacy with the Father. Transforming the Inner Man introduces the keys that reach to the depth of the heart with the power of the cross and resurrection to effect lasting change through continual death and rebirth. John and Paula Sandford take a no-nonsense approach to Christian living.A few of their chapter titles are as follows:• Sanctification and Transformation

The general practices related to church funding aren’t producing the same results they have in the past. There is a general acceptance that something has changed but little talk or interest is coming from traditional church leader training sources such as denominational entities and seminaries. Pastors are largely left to their own devices to “figure this out.” They need a lifeline. While some churches are experiencing exponential growth, some churches - despite their best efforts - have b...

A call for pastors to return to their biblical calling as shepherds. Escape from Church, Inc. calls pastor-leaders away from the business executive model of doing church and back to the model of a caring shepherd who tends his sheep. Wagner offers a practical and biblically sound view of how pastors can become all God intended them to be and guides them into new vision, new values, and a new way of pastoring that begins not with doing, but with seeing and being.

This Zion's Camp Books special ebook edition has been formatted for ease of reading on Kobo, with internal links to scriptures cited and footnotes. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.George Q. Cannon's Original PrefaceSOME years since the desire took possession of me to write the life of Nephi, the son of Lehi, and, as time and opportunity should permit, the lives of other prominent men of his race of whom we have an account in the Book of ...

This book leads the believer into the experience and enjoyment of God. "This is a practical and intimate concern in the spiritual life of a Christian." It helps the believer eat and drink the Lord through prayer and reading the Bible. "The first section, chapters 1 through 14, covers the matter of how to enjoy God, and the second section, chapters 15 through 21, covers the matter of how to practice the enjoyment of God."

Good pastoral leadership is not a "by the numbers" proposition. It is a matter of heart and soul, of devoting the whole self to the vision God gives for the congregation in which one serves. Yet neither is it purely intuitive; it requires hard, careful thinking about the directions and details of the path down which God calls. When Adam Hamilton became pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, its membership consisted of himself and his family. Ten years later the church a...

The book is the first series of Get Out Of Debt, Now! and it is called The Truth About Debt. It focuses on the knowledge regarding the truth about Debt and encompasses the truth about what debt is, the truth about what can debt do and finally, the truth about preventing yourself from falling into the debt trap. The whole book is based on the Biblical truth about debt and is practical.

Eric Law's foundational Holy Currencies (2013) demonstrated a new way ministries can think about the resources needed to do their work in their communities. Law's follow-up book, Holy Currency Exchange, shares a variety of tools for thinking differently about how those resources can mobilize ministries into new life, mission, and vitality. Examples include a restaurant ministry, programs for youth, an emergency rent loan fund for people in the neighborhood, worship servic...

Today pastors and church leaders have an unparalleled opportunity to shape a biblical vision for Kingdom giving. Based on the foundational premise that stewardship is the management of time, talents, and treasure, authors Stan Toler and Elmer Towns set forth a vision for pastors and church leaders to shape the thinking in the pews. Developing a Giving Church provides guidance for shaping a giving environment, suggestions for developing committed steward leaders, and counsel on biblical stra...