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These faith-based bulletins follow the church year using the lectionary gospel readings, and are great to use during church services, Sunday school, or other church activities.
Help young worshippers connect with the scripture passage through fun exercises, pictures, and puzzles that reinforce each week's Bible lesson.
You get two designs for one low price:
Ages 3-6 (preschool and kindergarten)
Ages 7-12 (grade school)
Download size: 12MB
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Purchase the entire year now and save 25%!
These faith-based bulletins follow the church year using the lectionary gospel readings, and are great to use during church services, Sunday school, or other church activities.
Help young worshippers connect with the scripture passage through fun exercises, pictures, and puzzles that reinforce each week's Bible lesson.
You get two designs for one low price:
Ages 3-6 (preschool and kindergarten)
Ages 7-12 (grade school)
Contains bulletins for Year A: November 27, 2022 through December 31, 2023.
Each weekly bulletin is a separate PDF file making it simple to post on your church's website or email out to families during this season of digital church.
Download size: 60MB
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Do you feel like the leadership pipeline at your church has dried up and you have no more potential leaders?
The Finding New Leaders training tool helps you find leaders in unexpected places throughout your congregation and match them with the appropriate roles to start turning your leadership deficit into a leadership surplus.
You’ll learn how to identify and cultivate 4 types of potential leaders:
Stop waiting for leaders to stand up and announce themselves and dig deeper to spot and cultivate potential leaders who want to use their gifts to serve God. Leaders are there! Finding New Leaders will teach you how to identify them.
Take your team through seven flexible and easy to use sessions, and you’ll walk away with:
Finding New Leaders will help you find the right people for the right roles to help your church grow its kingdom influence.
Session 1: Struggling to Find Good Leaders
How are you at identifying leaders to meet those needs? This session will lay the groundwork and set the expectations for the training to follow. Includes insight from Bob Russell and Stuart Briscoe and an assessment to evaluate your church’s current leadership needs.
Session 2: Spying New Leaders
This session covers the basics for learning to look for leadership potential in people. Participants will think back through their own leadership development and apply those memories to their current leadership search. Includes insight from Angela Yee.
Session 3: Identifying Natural Leaders
Can you spot innate leadership potential? The things you’re looking for in leaders may not be the best place to start. Includes insight from Don Cousins and an assessment from Fred Smith Sr. to help your church identify leadership potential.
Session 4: Identifying Reluctant Leaders
Those with natural leadership ability sometimes need a nudge in the right direction. This session will teach you how to do just that. Includes insight from Karen L. Miller and a Bible study to help you bring God’s Word to bear on this topic.
Session 5: Identifying Situational Leaders
Sometimes six one-bullet leaders are better than one six-bullet leader. By giving more people fewer leadership tasks, you will get people off the pews and into active church service, and you will make sure important balls aren’t dropped by overloaded staff members. Includes insight from Clark Cothern and a tool to help you pair leadership tasks in your church with the best people for the job.
Session 6: Identifying Undeveloped Leaders
When no one seems qualified to lead, remember that most people need significant investment before they look like the leaders we picture in our heads. This session will help you learn to pour into people who might not be ready to lead right now, but could be mega-influencers with a little bit of help. Includes insight from Mark Jobe and a case study from Gordon MacDonald about finding leadership in unlikely places.
Session 7: Creating Leadership Pipelines
What can your church do to plant seeds now to grow more leaders in the future? After reading about one church’s approach to developing multiple generations of disciple-making leaders, participants will brainstorm options for creating leadership pipelines for your own church. Includes insight from Rick Lowry, Lane Severson, and Michael J. Rubino.
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It’s often said that ministry is difficult and lonely. When you add on being a single woman, though, ministry can feel impossible to navigate. Who do you go to for support? How do you date while leading in the church? And how do you respond to those well-intentioned yet discouraging comments you receive from people in your church?
The church often acts as though marriage is the highest goal in life, while at the same time quoting Jesus and Paul—both singles in ministry. This messaging is pervasive within the church, even if it’s unintentional. Despite this—and perhaps precisely because of this—the church needs single women in ministry. With the increasing number of singles in the church (some reports say over half of adults are now single), we need single women to advocate for other singles, share their experiences, and model healthy singleness. Plus, single or not, we all gain by hearing and learning from the experiences of single women.
To be able to do that, though, single women in ministry need some guidance on navigating the tricky parts of ministering as a single. This training resource from WomenLeaders.com is designed to provide you with specific tips and strategies to overcome some of the more difficult parts of ministry for single women.
Included you’ll find the following articles with accompanying reflection questions:
Pastoring While Single
The challenge and beauty of navigating ministry alone.
Chi Chi Okwu
Why Singles Belong in Church Leadership
Unmarried ministers offer something unique that the church needs.
Lore Ferguson Wilbert
You Are Enough
Singleness doesn’t make you any less of a leader.
Chi Chi Okwu
Ministry in a Family-Centric Church
Yes, singles can minister to families and couples.
Stephanie O’Brien
Build a Community of Friends
Investing in a chosen family is crucial for single women in ministry.
Laura Leonard
Rhythms of Rest
Practicing Sabbath as a single woman in ministry.
Rachel Wassink
All the Single (Preacher) Ladies
How to handle dating when you’re leading in the church.
Tiffany Thomas
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This special report provides you with an overview of the model-rich landscape of church ministry and the ways in which churches are connecting like never before. We’ll introduce you to fresh strategies and check in with the pioneers of tried-and-true methods to get a better picture of what’s working and why. Discover the benefits and challenges of each model, and then apply what works best in your context.
The quickly expanding universe of ministry innovation can be confusing and intimidating. That's why we spoke with the key figures shaping what it looks like to do ministry in the US. What they told us will help you decide which strategies will best serve your congregation.
You'll learn about several models and strategies including:
The City Parish
Australian pastor Jon Tyson found his ministry voice in the neighborhoods of New York City. His church model allows other leaders to find theirs.
Dinner Church
We spoke with Verlon Fosner about how a shared meal can reach people unlikely to attend a traditional church service.
Missional Communities
Is this movement the church’s best hope for disciple-making in a post-Christian US?
Interdenominational Networks
These congregations are uniting across traditions to serve as the Church in their cities.
Multisite
In a short time, having more than one site has become a new normal. Dave Ferguson, a pioneer of the model, predicts where it’s headed.
Church Mergers
Jim Tomberlin explains why an option once seen as a failed strategy is now giving many congregations a new lease on life.
An Anglican-Baptist Church Plant
Why would two distinctly different denominations work together? And what have they learned?
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This downloadable resource from Gifted for Leadership addresses how to help those with mental illness, the importance of community for those who suffer, and how to see past the stigma of depression. It also points out that ignoring mental illness could cost lives and provides ideas for resources and support. Finally, it gives us wisdom as we minister to those with mental illness.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Mental Illness Blues.
JoHannah Reardon
Leader's Guide
How to use this resource with a group.
Mental Illness Within Women's Ministry
How can women's ministry help those with mental illness?
Amy Simpson
Managing Anxiety and Making Friends
With mental illness, community becomes more challenging...and more essential.
Anne Marie Miller
Depression: The Church'es Best Kept Secret
Seeing past the stigma.
Corrie Cutrer
Mental Illness and the Church
How many lives will be lost before we change?.
Gillian Marchenko
How to Help Women's Ministry Leaders Struggling with Mental Illness
Tips for prevention, resources, and support.
Julie Mateer
Followers of the Wounded Healer
Wisdom for relating and ministering to those with mental illness.
Amy Jackson
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Articles, books, and Bible studies to help you further.
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Women’s ministry too often revolves around events that end up being more of a party than a vehicle for life-change. Transformation can only come as women have the chance to get to know each other and trust each other enough to admit our failings. But to do that, we have to learn to be honest about our struggles.
In this downloadable resource from Gifted for Leadership, you will find the balance of leadership and vulnerability and begin to get a better picture of how you and your women’s ministry need to grow and change.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Honesty in Women's Ministry.
JoHannah Reardon
Leader's Guide
How to use this assessment pack for a group study.
Be Honest: You Don't Have It All Together
And you don’t have to.
Tracey Bianchi
Staged Authenticity
You’ll lose your hearers if "honest" communication becomes cliché.
Tony Kriz
God Doesn't Want Our Good Behavior
He sees through the tactics we use to make ourselves look good.
Janelle Alberts
Can I Follow You As I Follow Christ?
People don’t want to hear your words; they want to see your actions.
Carmille L. Akande
Giving Grace Away
Hero or thief, I need the power of confession.
Hannah Farver
Dare to Lead From Healing
We don’t have to have it all together to lead.
GiftedForLeadership.com
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Articles, books, and Bible studies to help you further.
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These practical ideas will help you consider how to truly minister to today's women.
This download addresses many of the most common concerns and problems faced in women's ministry. From talking about marriage and singleness, to developing leaders and helping them overcome self-doubt, to viewing women as more than the lifestage they are in, these articles offer wisdom and practical solutions to take your women's ministry to the next level.
Table of contents:
Fresh Ideas Introduction
by JoHannah Reardon
Leader's Guide
How to use this download for a group study.
Women's Ministry Beyond Women's Roles
Holistic discipleship views women as more than the stage of life they're in.
by Wendy Alsup
Women with the Self-Doubt Syndrome
Some high-achieving women have the 'impostor syndrome'—the ingrained sense that they don’t belong at the table of influence.
by Lynn Cohick
What Are We Teaching Our Young Women?
Women's ministries need to help lead the conversation concerning marriage and singleness.
by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
Share Your Story
Listening to others' stories transforms us.
by Jen Murphy
5 Ways to Empower Women
Provide opportunities to serve, develop leaders, and more through small groups.
by Julia Mateer
Ideas for Women's Minsitry
Some practical ways to take women's ministry to the next level.
by Amy Simpson
Additional Resources
Articles, books, and Bible studies to help you further.
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Learn how to cross religious barriers.
Table of Contents:
Engaging Faith
Engaging adherents of other faiths requires thinking like missionaries.
by Mark Foreman
Learning from History
A historical road map to evangelizing people of other faiths.
by Mark Foreman
Facing the Challenge of Pluralism
We must reaffirm our core convictions in a culture of diverse beliefs.
by Daniel B. Clendenin
Reaching Hindus, Buddhists, and Traditional Chinese
It’s imperative to understand a religion’s underlying worldview in order to share the gospel effectively with its adherents.
by Winfried Corduan
Internationals Among Us
Name badges open doors to share your faith.
by Donna S. Thomas
Connecting with Muslims (free sample)
Finding common ground and seeking out creative ways to connect are essential for reaching Muslims.
interview with T.V. Thomas
Rules for Interacting with Muslims
Finding common ground and seeking out creative ways to connect are essential for reaching Muslims.
by Carl Medearis
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Editor's Note: This Assessment Pack is available for a limited time as a free sample download. We hope you find it useful in your ministry efforts.
What does it look like for a disciple to be "fully trained" (Luke 6:40)?
The first assessment in this 17-page pack can help you clarify what to aim for as you disciple people in your church. The rest of these assessments can help you evaluate how different aspects of your church's life and ministry might be facilitating or hindering people's growth in Christlikeness.
Table of Contents:
The Marks of a Fully Trained Disciple
Knowledge, faith, character, and action are the evidence.
Dr. Andrew M. Davis
Four Planes of Discipleship
Think personal, corporate, local, and global.
Dr. Andrew M. Davis and Ron Halbrooks
The Way We Change
Foster a biblical attitude toward spiritual formation in your church.
John Ortberg
The Stages of Disciple-making
Do your ministries address each stage?
Dean Ridings
Spiritual Maturity Comes in Relationships
Is your church fostering humility and authenticity?
Larry Crabb
Rule of Life
Are your leaders setting the tone for disciple-making?
Keith Meyer
Time-Tested Methods of Discipleship
Learn from Wesley, Baxter, and Luther.
Bruce L. Shelley
More Than Just a Bible Study
Three common obstacles to life change.
JoHannah Reardon
Our Church's Support for Mentoring
How well are we providing the 5 essentials for mentoring?
Wayne Schmidt
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This 5-Pack Resource Bundle contains the following titles:
Book 1: Communicating and Initiating Change
Strategize for smooth transitions to bring positive, God-honoring change to your church.
Book 2: Setting Goals and Measuring Results (Training Theme):
Create a culture in which team members establish objectives and reach them.
Book 3: Strategic Planning (Training Theme)
Seek God's wisdom in your church's plans.
Book 4: Strategic Planning (Practical Ministry Skills):
Articles designed to help you understand the importance and benefits of strategic planning.
Book 5: Vision & Strategy (Assessment Pack)
Guiding people through decisions about your church's direction.