Format: Spiral Bound
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A Sacred Trust
Four Part Program and Facilitator’s Guide A Sacred Trust is a four part DVD training curriculum available as a part of the Teaching Healthy Boundaries 101 & 201 Training Kit. The goals of this fundamental boundaries program are to: Increase awareness of the need for healthy boundaries in the clergy-congregant or teacher-student relationship Provide clergy, lay leaders and…
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Celebration of Discipline (Group Resource)
Celebration of Discipline is a video-based curriculum built on Richard Foster’s most acclaimed book. It is designed to help Christians experience authentic transformation through engagement with classic Christian disciplines. The book, leader’s guide, participant’s guide, and DVD are used to conduct the 13-session series. Based on a book by the same title, published by Harper…
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Healthy Boundaries Training Program
Healthy Boundaries 101 & 201Â is a two-part training program with two DVDs, a teacher’s guide and two participant workbooks for levels 101 – Fundamentals and 201 – Beyond Basics. The goals of the program are to: Increase awareness of the need for healthy boundaries in the clergy-congregant or teacher-student relationship Provide clergy, lay leaders and…
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Organizational Diagnosis of Churches
This 85 page paper describes the theoretical background and the scientific development of the NCD survey.
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Connectional Church Development
This manual is a Presbytery handbook for creating new churches based on the priorities of planting more new churches, seeing more of our new congregations realize their goals and fufill their potential, and lowering the financial costs of starting new congregations.
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What We Wish We Had Known
History and Dedication This manual is a gift to the congregation of The Presbyterian Church, Mt. Kisco, New York, in recognition of the love and support that our church members have given to individuals and families whose lives have been touched by the issue of homosexuality. Most of us grew up with very limited factual…
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Long-Term Recovery Manual
This Manual is intended to give a quick overview of the major players in your community’s disaster response and recovery, help you look at some successful models for organizing for long-term recovery, and offer some tools and samples for you adaptation to your situation.
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Holy Is The Lord
In this resource, worship planners will find the work of many of today’s leading composers. This collection is a unique blend of music ranging from classical, traditional, and chant, to global, African-American gospel, and praise genres. Some settings will be more accessible to smaller congregations or those just beginning to use service music, other settings…
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Lift Up Your Hearts (Leaders’ Edition)
The Leader’s edition features written-out accompaniment for all songs, including parts for various instruments where suitable, as well as suggestions for tempo and interpretation. It has been designed for congregations that want to introduce contemporary music into worship while maintaining theological integrity and musical excellence.
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The Psalter
Psalm settings for cantor, chorus, and congregation; principally presented in close score. Prepared by the Psalter Task Force for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
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Spiritual Gifts
What are spiritual gifts? How can they bring renewal to a congregation? What is your spiritual gift? How can it be used to serve the mission of Jesus Christ? Mainline denominations have been closing hundreds of congregations and losing millions of members. One reason has been the lack of emphasis on spiritual gifts. Spiritual gifts…
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Journey to Discipleship
The Teacher’s Guide, which includes a student book, provides the teacher with clear objectives for each lesson. It gives teachers a strategy for presenting the content of each lesson in a clear and concise manner. It contains dozens of innovative ideas for involving class members in active participation in the classes, and offers usable ideas…