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Discipleship Resources
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Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course Participant's Book
Sandy Jackson, Brian Jackson
"God calls you to a life of servanthood as a disciple of Jesus Christ. …Lay Servant Ministries is the first step for many laypersons toward their faith journey as they strive for a closer relationship with the Lord," the authors write in the introduction.
The Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course is a foundational course designed to equip new church leaders and renew current leaders in The United Methodist Church. It explores
personal spiritual gifts
servant leadership
each leader's role in d...
Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course Participant's Book
Sandy Jackson, Brian Jackson
"God calls you to a life of servanthood as a disciple of Jesus Christ. …Lay Servant Ministries is the first step for many laypersons toward their faith journey as they strive for a closer relationship with the Lord," the authors write in the introduction.
The Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course is a foundational course designed to equip new church leaders and renew current leaders in The United Methodist Church. It explores
personal spiritual gifts
servant leadership
each leader's role in d...
Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course Leader's Guide
Sandy Jackson, Brian Jackson
The Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course Leader's Guide is an introductory course designed to equip new church leaders and renew current leaders in The United Methodist Church. It can be used with adults and youth and is the foundational course for other leadership training courses.
This course covers the 3 three core categories of Lay Servant Ministries: Leading, Caring, and Communicating; it also emphasizes ministry in daily life and sharing faith stories. The plans in this Leader's Guide ar...
African Religion
The Quarry of the Rock of Monotheism
John Wesley Zwonunondiita Kurewa
Worldwide scholarship has established the fact that Africa is the cradle land of humanity. Dr. Kurewa promotes the theory that African Religion could very easily have been the proto-religion of humanity, and a religion from which other monotheistic religions, such as Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam have their roots.
The author shifts the traditional African historical studies stance of looking at Africa from Egypt alone, and instead looks at Africa from inside Africa. Dr. Kur...
Safe Sanctuaries - Older Adults
The Church Responds to Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Older Adults
Richard H. Gentzler Jr., Joy Thornburg Melton
Have you ever thought of older adults in your church as being vulnerable to exploitation, abuse, or neglect?
The statistics are sobering. According to the AARP Bulletin, each year 1 in 7 older Americans is victimized physically, emotionally, or financially. But many cases of elder abuse go unreported.
Elder abuse can happen to any older person—someone in your church, your neighbor, your loved one, even yourself—and anywhere. No church is immune from this reality.
Don't let your church be part...
Charting a Course of Discipleship
A Workbook on Christian Discipleship (Revised Edition)
Jay Regennitter, Delia Halverson, Teresa Gilbert, ...
Is your congregation living up to its mission? After all, making disciples is what churches are supposed to do.
So how do churches go about making disciples? What is a disciple, anyway? And how do congregations know whether they are actually helping people to grow in their faith?
Charting a Course for Discipleship provides a step-by-step plan that will help any congregation design a disciple formation process that is effective for its particular context. It will help your church to:
identif...
How We Preach
Preaching in the African Context
Eben Kanukayi Nhiwatiwa
This book is the second of two volumes on Preaching in African Context. For both seasoned preachers and beginners, including students in seminaries, Bible colleges, and universities, this second volume explores how we preach and the practice of contextual preaching in Africa. The two volumes go hand-in-hand and Nhiwatiwa demonstrates that the principles need good practice to become contextual preaching, and our practice needs
principles to ensure integrity. Read these volumes to see why preac...
Why We Preach
Preaching in the African Context
Eben Kanukayi Nhiwatiwa
This book is the first of two volumes on Preaching in the African Context. For both seasoned preachers and beginners, including students in seminaries, Bible colleges, and universities, this first volume explores why we preach and the principles of contextual preaching in Africa. Nhiwatiwa demonstrates that contextual preaching serves as the most
appropriate way of communicating the gospel in Africa—it can connect with and engage the minds of people in effective ways. Read these volumes to se...
The Leadership Lab
A Leadership Development Resource for Senior High Youth
Hank Hilliard
Effective leadership doesn't just happen. If you're looking for a resource to help develop your young people's leadership skills, The Leadership Lab, a tested and proven resource, is just what you need.
The Leadership Lab takes a holistic approach to leadership development. It keeps a balance between improving leadership and helping young people grow in their relationship with God and others.
Through hands-on activities, lively discussions, and team building exercises, young people will lear...
Moving In Harmony
An Updated Polity for the United Methodist Church in Africa
Nday Bondo
In order to fully appreciate the good of the UMC polity, the people called United Methodists need to work together, moving in harmony, and using the same church processes. In this book, Rev. Bondo provides the most relevant and up-to-date information from The Book of Discipline 2008 to the African Methodist Church, so that it can join and move in harmony with the polity of The United Methodist Church worldwide.