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40 Days and 40 Bytes: Making Computers Work for Your Congregation (Paperback)

"'Today we are awash in computerized Bible games, pastoral care software, and church management systems with memberspersonal information and giving records,' observe authors Spiegel, Armstrong, and Bill, but 'too often we blindly accept and use technology without asking the big questions. Questions like, is it appropriate to our mission and ministry?' 40 Days and 40 Bytes will help your congregation explore technology so you can decide, from a ministry and culture standpoint, what you need to do. The goal: godly servicenot technological glitz.  Theres no question your congregation is going to use computer technology. The only question is, 'How?' 40 Days and 40 Bytes will help you design technology that fits your ministry and mission.

Membership Plus 8.0 Deluxe: Complete Membership Management Software (CD-ROM)

Designing and Planning Programs: for nonprofit and governmental organizations (hardcover)  

"A comprehensive guide for practitioners who must carry out program planning projects in nonprofit or government human service organizations. Authors Edward J. Pawlak and Robert D. Vinterexperts in the field of program planningshow how planning is a goal-directed activity that will succeed when its tasks are carried out in orderly, progressive stages. In this important resource, the authors walk practitioners and students through the entire process from initiation to completion of planning projects and examine the relationship between planning, implementation, and program operations."

The Ministry Playbook: Strategic Planning for Effective Churches

"Create a game plan that will keep your church focused and effective! Henry Klopp has spent fourteen years training church leaders to incorporate strategic planning into their ministry endeavors. In The Ministry Playbook he offers methods and tools that even novice planners can easily embrace. You'll find insight into the challenges of leading a church in a largely unchurched culture, biblical examples of strategic planning, and how to overcome the barriers of apathy, resistance to change, and declining financial resources that face any ministry seeking to have a greater voice."

Church and Ministry Strategic Planning: From Concept to Success

Church Administration Handbook

"This book was wonderfully constructed. It is a must have for all pastors, chairmen of deacons, trustees and administrative assistants. If you have a question about how a procedure should be done, more than likely this book has covered it. It will certainly be a compliment to your personal library."

Church Administration: Creating Efficiency for Effective Ministry (Hardcover)

"For churches and religious nonprofits, the business of business is not business-it is ministry. However, these organizations still have to plan. Because organization is needed to accomplish specific tasks, leadership must train and motivate workers and progress and effectiveness. Church Administration will assist the pastors and church administrators in becoming effective and efficient leaders, managers, and administrators."

The Role of the Church in Aging: Programs and Services for Seniors

Energizing the Congregation: Images That Shape Your Church's Ministry (Paperback)

"In an attempt to revitalize churches of different denominations, the authors describe characteristics of congregations and members' perceptions of their congregations using five images of the church community relationships: pillar, pilgrim, survivor, prophet, and servant. Articulating these images, which may otherwise be unconscious, leads to congregational empowerment and to new ministries within the congregation. The book focuses on five churches and their self-images and mixing of new images; the churches have diverse affiliations representing inner city, suburban, and rural environments."

Eating the Elephant: Leading the Established Church to Growth (Paperback)

"The familiar adage asks, 'How do you eat an elephant?' Answer: 'One bite at a time.' How does a pastor encourage a plateaued or declining established church to grow? Through small, incremental changes. Such is the advice from Rainer and Lawless who chide church leaders for rushing from one quick-fix method to another searching for the right formula to bring growth.  The book's greatest value comes from the encouraging examples of churches and pastors that stayed the course and made the necessary changes gradually over time."