Web Empower Your Church

Author : Mark Stephenson
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426725241

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A great church website is more about ministry than technology. Web-Empower Your Church offers step-by-step guidance to web implementers and other church leaders who are on the exciting journey to building an effective web ministry. Mark's engaging, conversational style makes technology accessible. He offers first-hand advice on every aspect of building an internet ministry: from assembling a team to designing and maintaining the website to adding powerful ministry features. "A first-hand account from one of the true pioneers of online ministry. Anyone interested in online ministry ought to read this book and learn from Mark's example." Andrew Careaga Author, eMinistry: Connecting with the Net Generation "A clear picture on the do's and don'ts of web ministry for churches. A must read for churches who want to effectively engage in web ministry." Walt Wilson Founder and Chairman, Global Media Outreach, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ "Stephenson has truly unleashed the power of internet ministry for your church. If you're looking for a readable and educating book on web-empowered ministry, look no further. This book is it. I can't believe how much I learned from my first reading. I will be returning to the book over and over." Bill Easum President, Easum, Bandy & Associates Mark Stephenson is Director of CyberMinistry and Technology of Ginghamsburg Church, Tipp City, Ohio. He started the Ginghamsburg CyberMinistry back in 1996 as an unpaid servant. Over the years, as the ministry grew, Mark joined the Ginghamsburg staff, first part time and then full time. Currently, Ginghamsburg Church has one of the largest and most innovative church internet ministries in the world, and the ministry remains unpaid-servant based and “home grown” (no outside companies or consultants have been hired). The website has received national acclaim -- from write-ups in the Wall Street Journal to the Dallas Morning News to Christian Computing Magazine, and television stories by WBNS Channel 10 in Columbus, Ohio and on Fox News. Visionary leaders like Bill Easum and Len Sweet champion it as a must-see website. Mark, the “Church CyberGuy,” is also a well-known speaker on CyberMinistry as he conducts presentations and workshops around North America for such organizations as Leadership Network, United Methodist Communications, North American Christian Convention, Brethren in Christ Church of North America, and Miami University of Ohio. Mark has provided consulting support to numerous churches from around the world to help them develop their web ministries. His passion for helping churches led him to start and lead the Web-Empowered Church, a ministry of The Foundation for Evangelism, to develop free web-ministry software for churches and ministries worldwide.

Author : Mark Morgan Stephenson
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Internet
ISBN : 9781426713224

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Let Web-Empowered Ministry be your comprehensive guide to building a powerful Internet ministry. --Book Jacket.

Author : Elmer L. Towns,Ed Stetzer,Warren Bird
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441267382

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11 Innovations in the Local Church by Elmer L. Towns,Ed Stetzer,Warren Bird Pdf

Join three seasoned church-ministry experts on an insider's tour of the most innovative churches today! Discover a dozen types of innovation, each with profiles of congregations that have implemented that innovation. This is more than a show-and-tell tour, however. Each chapter offers a solid take-away for church leaders on how to learn and apply the appropriate innovation profiled. The authors also offer scripturally based assessments of both the positive and negatives implications of implementing each innovation, providing guidance and wisdom. There are many ways to present the gospel, and this timely book will serve as a springboard for church leaders scratching their heads and asking themselves, "What should we do next?" By learning from a dozen different church types, church leaders can become more intentional about exploring new directions and reaching more of the world for Christ.

Author : General Board Of Discipleship
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426755347

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Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2013-2016 (Set of 26) by General Board Of Discipleship Pdf

The Guidelines’ booklets, one for each ministry area, are tools that enable you to help get new lay leaders off to a good start. Each booklet includes the basic "job description" for the leader as well as practical "how-to" information important to implementing ministry effectively. Brief and to the point for the busy, but spirit-led leader, these Guidelines take some of the unknown out of leading these ministry areas. One booklet for each title makes up this set of 26 Guidelines, perfect for making them available to all church members. The twenty-six Guidelines, one for each ministry area, cover church leadership areas including Church Council and Small Membership Church; the administrative areas of Finance and Trustees; and ministry areas focused on nurture, outreach, and witness including Worship, Evangelism, Stewardship, and Christian Education, age-level ministries, Communications, and more. The download file of a product is copyrighted just as a print resource is copyrighted. In the case of the Guidelines Set of 26, the purchaser can extract one copy of each booklet for an individual to use. (For example, one copy can be extracted for the chair of the stewardship committee; one for the person responsible for adult ministries; one for the lay leader). Additional copies are purchased separately as needed. Download files for each individual booklet are sold separately, just as print copies of the booklets are sold separately.

Author : Um Communications
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426736346

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Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2013-2016 - Communications by Um Communications Pdf

Local church communication is a ministry that shares the church's story in ways that move people toward becoming disciples of Christ. You are part of a leadership team that brings to life your church's vision and mission. Your role is to be a storyteller and connector, employing communications' practices and tools to share the story of the church in a planned, compelling, accessible way. Your goal is to develop a reliable process for telling and hearing the story in which everyone can participate. This guideline is designed to help you meet this goal. This is one of the twenty-six Guidelines th.

Author : Sam Hargreaves,Sara Hargreaves
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783595129

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Whole Life Worship by Sam Hargreaves,Sara Hargreaves Pdf

This book is a continuation of the LICC series begun by Neil Hudson's Imagine Church Whole-Life Worship will demonstrate that the contemporary Western Church has reached a point where our "gathered" worship is separated from our "scattered" lives outside of church. This is detrimental to the congregation's spiritual development and their effectiveness on their "frontlines". Church worship should be inspired and informed by our everyday experiences. It should empower and send the congregation out to continue worshipping. The book will provide patterns and resources to better connect gathered worship with the lives of the congregation beyond church meetings. The book will unpack a biblical grounding for both gathered and scattered worship. It will then identify patterns within our gathered services which help us re-make these connections. It will provide practical resources such as songs, prayers and activities which can help churches connect Sunday to the rest of the week. It will draw examples and stories from other church streams and traditions, to demonstrate how different kinds of Christian spirituality engage worshipfully with everyday life. In the second half of the book is a practical resource looking specifically at different aspects of a gathered service, and how each one can have an "outward" dimension.

Author : George Thomas Kurian,Mark A. Lamport
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1667 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780810884939

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Encyclopedia of Christian Education by George Thomas Kurian,Mark A. Lamport Pdf

Christianity regards teaching as one of the most foundational and critically sustaining ministries of the Church. As a result, Christian education remains one of the largest and oldest continuously functioning educational systems in the world, comprising both formal day schools and higher education institutions as well as informal church study groups and parachurch ministries in more than 140 countries. In The Encyclopedia of Christian Education, contributors explore the many facets of Christian education in terms of its impact on curriculum, literacy, teacher training, outcomes, and professional standards. This encyclopedia is the first reference work devoted exclusively to chronicling the unique history of Christian education across the globe, illustrating how Christian educators pioneered such educational institutions and reforms as universal literacy, home schooling, Sunday schools, women’s education, graded schools, compulsory education of the deaf and blind, and kindergarten. With an editorial advisory board of more than 30 distinguished scholars and five consulting editors, TheEncyclopedia of Christian Education contains more than 1,200 entries by 400 contributors from 75 countries. These volumes covers a vast range of topics from Christian education: History spanning from the church’s founding through the Middle Ages to the modern day Denominational and institutional profiles Intellectual traditions in Christian education Biblical and theological frameworks, curricula, missions, adolescent and higher education, theological training, and Christian pedagogy Biographies of distinguished Christian educators This work is ideal for scholars of both the history of Christianity and education, as well as researchers and students of contemporary Christianity and modern religious education.

Author : Ken Ham,Britt Beemer
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780890515297

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Already Gone by Ken Ham,Britt Beemer Pdf

NATIONWIDE POLLS AND DENOMINATIONAL REPORTS ARE SHOWING THAT THE NEXT GENERATION IS CALLING IT QUITS ON THE TRADITIONAL CHURCH.

Author : Adam Mabry
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312326279

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Church Forward: How to Plant Christ Centered, Spirit Empowered, Socially Responsible Churches in Every Nation by Adam Mabry Pdf

Far from being a how-to manual for a certain model of planting, this book is designed to infrom your thinking and working to bring a christ-centered, spirit-empowered, socially-responsble church to your unique context. Taking into account the scriptures unique calling, your unique wiring, and the demands of the host culture, this book will serve as a helpful guide as you develop a biblical, contextual, and authentic philosophy of ministry for the new church.

Author : Douglas a. Balzer
Publisher : Word Alive Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1486619819

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The Empowerment Pivot: How God Is Redefining Our View of Normal by Douglas a. Balzer Pdf

What if I told you that God has a version of normal for your life that far exceeds your current experience? What if I told you that Jesus really meant it when he said, "Whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing" (John 14:12)? What if I told you that the church was meant to convincingly demonstrate Jesus's supernatural presence to a skeptical world? This book invites you to make seven shifts towards God's eternal and infinite nature that render his manifest presence and empowerment in our lives and ministries... God's version of normal. Will you dare to pivot towards Jesus and his version of normal for your life?

Author : Daniel Im
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433651557

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No Silver Bullets by Daniel Im Pdf

What if I told you that you were only one step away from unlocking new levels of maturity and growth in your church? The myth of the silver bullet still exists because we desperately want it to. We all prefer quick fixes and bandage solutions to the long, hard, slow work that produces real change. So the moment we learn about a new ministry or strategy and see its effect in another church, we run to implement it in our own. Unfortunately, this impulse is usually met by opposition, skepticism, and ultimately, rejection. What if the solution isn't a new model or a complicated strategy, but a shift in perspective? What if you could keep your church's current vision, values, and model, and simply make a few micro-shifts...leading to macro-changes? This book explores five micro-shifts that have the potential to produce macro-changes in your church. As you read, you will discover how to integrate these micro-shifts into the life of your church, starting with the way you disciple. You will finish by developing a plan to structure, communicate, and evaluate these changes to ensure that they take root and pave the way for lasting change and kingdom impact.

Author : Mark E. Moore
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780525653257

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Core 52 by Mark E. Moore Pdf

ECPA BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE CHRISTIAN BOOK AWARD® • Build your Bible IQ and Christian worldview in just fifteen minutes a day! Over the course of a year, Core 52 will help you master the 52 most important passages in the Bible. “You will gain the tools you need for living the life God has called you to.”—Kyle Idleman, pastor and author of Not a Fan “For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.”—1 Timothy 4:8 Most of us want to know the Bible better, but few reach our goal, often because we’re too busy or we don’t know where to start. Core 52 removes both barriers, offering a common-sense solution that fits into our busy lives. Respected Bible professor and teaching pastor Mark E. Moore developed this proven process from thirty-five years of helping people grow deeper in God’s Word. Each week features a brief essay, memory verse, Bible story, trajectory verses, and practical ways to put what you’ve learned into practice. An optional “Overachiever Challenge” offers the chance to memorize the top 100 Bible verses by year’s end. This simple approach allows you to become familiar with the big ideas of the Bible in less time and with less effort than other reading plans. In one year, you can master the core of the Bible—focusing on topics from God’s will to worry, happiness to holiness, and leadership to love. These fifty-two core passages are lenses through which you can read the rest of the Bible with clarity and confidence.

Author : Kathy J. Smith
Publisher : Vision Publishing (Ramona, CA)
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1615292098

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The Power Of Unity: Empowered Believers Empower the Church by Kathy J. Smith Pdf

It is through the struggle for unity that the church will find its backbone, spread its wings, and become the light of the world; fulfilling the mandate of God as the bearer of peace and declaring the good news, the redemption from sin and eternal life.

Author : National Register Publishing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0872173690

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The Official Catholic Directory by National Register Publishing Pdf

Author : Soon-Hock Lim
Publisher : Soon-Hock Lim
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789671793015

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You Walk, He Leads by Soon-Hock Lim Pdf

You Walk, He Leads is not the usual 7-steps to discover God’s will; it’s about walking in relationship with the Lord to know Him who wants you to know and do His will. The book argues that the first step to do God’s will is not about trying to discover God’s hidden will, it’s about discerning God’s revealed will. Can you imagine God saying, “I want you to do My will. Now go figure!”? Part 1 of You Walk, He Leads deals with three fundamental issues about discerning and doing God’s will, such as, Is God’s will a dot or a circle? Part 2 discusses the key elements that a person needs to discern and walk in God’s will. One of which is about having the right values. Personal values have the power to influence a person’s decision. Godly values lead to right decisions, ungodly values lead to wrong decisions. Part 3 provides the reader with three excellent tools to help him or her to walk in the Lord’s direction for his or her life: Marking Your Milestones, Drawing Your Timeline and Framing Your Purpose. You Walk, He Leads is written by a Malaysian Christian in the Malaysian context, but the principles are universal. The book is written in an easy-to-read style and well-illustrated with biblical and personal examples.