Format: Booklet Bound
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Comfort My People
This policy approved by the 218th General Assembly (2008) offers practical Guidance to individuals and groups about how to welcome and address the needs of persons affected by mental illness. Guided by Jesus’ words and actions, the person and family living with serious mental illnesses are invited together into new ways of participating in God’s
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Living Until We Die
This study guide for Living Till We Die serves as a companion to the book, Practicing Our Faith, A Way of Life for a Searching People, ed. Dorothy C. Bass,  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997. Twelve faith practices are presented in the book. The study guide focuses on six of those, exploring them through an end-of-life lens. These time-honored spiritual practices have
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Team Style Questionnaire
This tool helps people see how they work with others on a team or in a group. You will identify your primary style when working with others and understand the strengths and liabilities of various styles.
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Vital Values Assessment
Discover what is really important to you. Questions answered in this tool evaluate four major areas: Values in your work, life and relationships Values important to you in training or equipping others Decision-making values Team values
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The Pastor As Newcomer
All too often when a pastor takes up a new assignment or call the same frustrating series of events occurs: everyone experiences a burst of enthusiasm and hope, with Lay people and clergy finding that doors seem to open to new possibilities a few things go wrong, some hopes get dashed, personal differences emerge, old.
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Guidelines for Communal Discernment
Discernment is a gift of the Holy Spirit that orients persons to be attentive to the presence of God in our midst. In discernment, persons sift through the many spirits that vie for our attention to hear the One True Spirit. discernment may be described as a means to: recognize and acknowledge what God is
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To Strengthen Christ’s Body
Conflict is a part of life even within the church. Conflict is not, in and of itself, either good or harmful. Conflicts contain the potential for both, depending on how they are handled. This resource identifies and explores basic concepts and tools that can help address the conflict and disagreements that are a part of
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Discovering Your Ministry Identity
This comprehensive workbook combines a series of seven exercises and assessments to help people personally discover who they are in Christ. The range of discovery includes these categories: spiritual fitness, spiritual gifting (from three different angles), ministry burden or passion, team style, personal values, and leadership strengths (Principle Priorities). This broad scope looks at the
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Off To A Good Start
Written especially for church groups, these fifteen installation services offer a variety of themes for installation ceremonies and suggestions for carrying them out. Unique themes, unusual challenges to officers, simple props and detailed instructions for conducting the ceremonies make these services helpful to any church group that wishes to present a memorable installation. Each ceremony
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Risk Management For Churches
This survey introduces churches to the important concept of risk management and provides an essential first step toward identifying and managing risk within the church.
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The Congregational Response To Clergy Betrayals Of Trust
When a priest, minister, or other spiritual leader betrays the trust of even one member of his or her congregation, everyone is seriously affected. A practical response to such abuse, this booklet suggests ways congregations can work through the resulting conflict and confusion to emerge as a stronger, renewed community.
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Rich Before We Were Born
The late ecumenical theologian Lukas Vischer recovers Calvin’s comprehensive appreciation for the goodness of God’s creation, and provides a timely resource for contemporary stewardship of all of life.