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paperbackBuilding Your Volunteer Team
A 30-Day Change Project for Youth Ministry
by Mark DeVries and Nate Stratman
Do you find yourself wondering how to get new volunteers onboard for your ministry? Youth leaders Mark DeVries and Nate Stratman have heard all the reasons why leaders fail to get and keep volunteers. That's why they have developed this 30-day on-ramp to creating a volunteer team, with all of the needed tools included and a money-back guarantee.
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paperbackThe Sacred Wilderness of Pastoral Ministry
Preparing a People for the Presence of the Lord
by David Rohrer
Using illustrations from everyday church life and decades of ministry experience, David Rohrer carefully crafts a lively and realistic pastoral theology for ministry in the sacred wilderness. If you are a new pastor you have a sure guide here. If you are a veteran preacher you'll find just the refresher course you need to envigorate your ministry.
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paperbackPreventing Ministry Failure
A ShepherdCare Guide for Pastors, Ministers and Other Caregivers
by Michael Todd Wilson and Brad Hoffmann
Brad Hoffman and Michael Todd Wilson present this workbook designed to be used by people in vocational ministry, alongside their peers, to safeguard them from burnout, moral failure and spiritual exhaustion.
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Church ministry is challenging, but the right resources can have a huge impact on the work pastors do day in and day out. This list highlights ten books from IVP written specifically for pastors, taking all types of ministry contexts into consideration. Whether you're a pastor yourself or you want to support the church leaders in your life, these books are the perfect place to start.
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paperbackBored with God
How Parents, Youth Leaders and Teachers Can Overcome Student Apathy
by Sean Dunn
In Bored with God, Sean Dunn catalogs what he's seen of apathy in his ministry to youth. He offers sympathetic guidance from the Scriptures for keeping apathy from spreading and for shepherding students into spiritual hunger.
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paperbackMothers, Children, and the Body Politic
Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity
by Nadya Williams
Today humans are often seen as commodities rather than image bearers. Classics scholar Nadya Williams brings insight from the beliefs and practices of the early church about motherhood, raising children, and human life, suggesting there is a way to recapture a vision that affirms the imago Dei in each person above our economic production.
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paperbackChurch for the Fatherless
A Ministry Model for Society's Most Pressing Problem
by Mark E. Strong
Mark Strong urges the American church to embrace its pivotal role as a place of refuge and growth for our nation's fatherless. From mentoring programs for dads to special ministry efforts for children, Strong gives practical ways that churches can be conformed to the image of our loving Father.
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paperbackWorth Seeing
Viewing Others Through God's Eyes
by Amy L. Williams
While most of society views high-risk youth with fear or disregard, Amy Williams has come to see them through God's eyes—as having tremendous value and potential. With stories and practical tips from three decades of ministry, Amy challenges perceptions and increases compassion for these youth who are often pushed to the margins of society.
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paperbackReinventing Youth Ministry (Again)
From Bells and Whistles to Flesh and Blood
by Wayne Rice
Youth ministers are widely known for their innovation: new programs, new resources, new Next Big Things. Wayne Rice, a founder of Youth Specialties—which changed the game of youth ministry dramatically in the early 1970s and continues to set the agenda for youth ministers around the world—here takes stock of the benefits and unintended consequences of innovation in youth ministry and lays out a set of values for what might guide the field into the future.
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paperbackDisaster Ministry Handbook
by Jamie D. Aten and David M. Boan
Is your church prepared to respond if natural disaster or human tragedy strikes your community? Jamie Aten and David Boan, codirectors of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute, provide this practical guide for disaster preparedness, filled with resources for emergency planning and crisis management plus best practices for local congregations.
