Download or read book Mobilizing Congregations written by John W. Wimberly, and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an in-depth look at the power teams bring to congregational work. Wimberly demonstrates that younger generations in particular are much happier working in a team, rather than a committee environment. Congregations using teams are able to mobilize members across generations for both short and long term tasks. After clarifying the differences between teams and committees, readers learn the important steps needed to set-up new teams. Leaders who simply create a team without attention to the formation process increase the likelihood of team failure. Using real-world examples and case studies, Wimberly addresses problems teams can expect to experience, as well as ways to resolve those issues. He highlights the surprising similarities between how teams and congregations function, both positively and negatively, providing keen insights from the business world and showing how they can be used to solve issues in congregations. Here readers will find both the theory and practice of making a successful transition to a congregation doing its work through highly motivated, efficient teams.
Download or read book Faith Rooted Organizing written by Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1930s, organizing movements for social justice in the U.S. have largely been built on secular assumptions. But what if Christians were to shape their organizing around the implications of the truth that God is real and Jesus is risen? Reverend Alexia Salvatierra and theologian Peter Heltzel propose a model of organizing that arises from their Christian convictions, with implications for all faiths.
Download or read book Operation Inasmuch written by David W. Crocker and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Inasmuch is a proven way to mobilize believers in hands-on local church missions through one-day ministries that have significant impact on both the community and the church. It creatively combines how-to with stories and testimonies that will inspire and energize local congregations. Engaged in local mission projects, participants gain spiritual renewal and continued commitment to respond to the needs of others in the community. Operation Inasmuch is Christians doing the work of the church instead of church work. They go beyond the walls of church buildings to apply God's love to human hurts and hopes wherever they are found. A TCP Leadership Series title.
Download or read book The Volunteer Church written by Leith Anderson and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with volunteers can be a rewarding and exciting experience—for them as well as for those who recruit, train, and maintain their services. However, if church leaders are honest, they know there are times that it can be frustrating. They know that volunteers are essential, vital to creating growth and new ministries, and are the key to introducing youth and children to Jesus Christ. They have the welcoming smiles at the door, they serve the food, pray for needs, stuff bulletins, organize missions trips, and on and on. If they want to see their church grow, it must be a volunteering church, a church that runs on volunteers. The Volunteer Church was developed out of the ministry of Leith Anderson at Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, where a vital and vibrant volunteer program boasting 4,000 participants grew under the leadership of Jill Fox. The principles and training have been applied in churches of all sizes and denominations in seminar settings across the country as well as at Wooddale Church. In The Volunteer Church, leaders will Learn how to effectively recruit and train volunteers Discover how to build sustainable, long-lasting ministries led by volunteers Find methods for encouraging and maintaining your volunteers for success Know how to build teams of volunteers Understand how to find the right service that fits a willing volunteer If you lead a church and are exhausted by the lack of volunteer help, or if you are a volunteer and dream of adding numbers to your team, this book is for you. If you are on a church staff and know that a new ministry is needed but volunteers and training are required to make it happen, here you will find the resources to recruit, inspire, train, and maintain the church’s most vital workforce.
Download or read book Conflict Management in Congregations written by David B. Lott and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, the Alban Institute has earned a reputation as a leader in addressing congregational conflict management issues through its research, consulting services, educational events, and particularly its publications. Drawing on this rich heritage, the first title in our new "Harvesting the Learnings" anthology series gathers 20 classic Alban works on congregational conflict into a single, indispensable volume. Conflict Management in Congregations harvests the collected wisdom of many of the key thinkers on this topic, including such past and present Alban consultants as Speed Leas, George Parsons, Margaret Bruehl, Gil Rendle, Alice Mann, and Roy Pneumann. Much of the material found here has long been unavailable but is still much in demand. Divided into three sections that explore the dynamics of conflict, conflict management techniques, and dealing with conflict in specific contexts, this book serves as a comprehensive primer that no pastor or congregational leader will want to be without.
Download or read book Mobilizing Movements written by Murray Moerman and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accelerating Movements As record numbers of people around the world respond to Christ, a need for community, structure, and leadership is emerging. Disciple-making and church planting must extend to the most remote areas of every people group and nation to assist individuals as they come to Christ. Lasting movements build on specific traits and strategies in both teams and leadership, including divine passion that lasts beyond whims and hardships. Murray Moerman provides realistic expectations of what it takes to facilitate a movement and how to gain the support of various partners needed for long-term success, resulting in whole-nation church planting saturation. Based on years of research, Mobilizing Movements contains both practical and spiritual elements. You will find insights and models from several continents for macro (whole nation) strategies and micro (personal) disciple-making. Features include: Key components of healthy movements Nine accelerants for movements Analysis of seven challenging contexts in which movements can still flourish Practical strategies scalable to your capacity and context Writing for novices as well as practitioners, Moerman casts a vision for completing the Great Commission and invites us to mobilize movements.
Download or read book Mobilizing Church Based Counseling written by Brad Hambrick and published by New Growth Press. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book in the Church-Based Counseling series provides a framework for guiding churches through the process of building a volunteer-led counseling ministry.
Download or read book Mobilizing the Faithful written by Dane Mataic and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious congregations are vital in promoting political and social activism among their attendees, and with over two thirds of U.S. adults having some affiliation with a religious congregation, researchers have routinely explored this mobilizing power. Initial efforts have routinely emphasized the importance of religiosity, church attendance, and values; however, these approaches have not explored an important interaction between attendees and congregations: the relationship between organizational activism opportunities and an attendees commitment to an organization. I correct this oversight by asking three interrelated questions. First, given the importance of organizational activism opportunities, why do some congregations provide opportunities while others do not? Second, why is there variation in the level of attendee activism, despite being exposed to similar activism opportunities or having similar levels of commitment to an organization. Finally, given the importance of commitment to an organization, and activism, why might there be variation in an attendees level of commitment to a congregation?I answer these questions with three empirical chapters and by asserting that religious congregations are like other secular organizations, and importantly, that these organizations are appropriable and voluntary, meaning that people can freely join or leave, but the organization can be co-opted to offer additional functions beyond the primary purpose. The first study (Chapter 3) explores why congregations are appropriated to make references to or opportunities for social and political action, assessing the importance of both congregational and leader characteristics. The second research question (Chapter 4) addresses why some individuals within congregations with opportunities for action respond favorably (e.g. higher levels of action) while others ignore the call for action through an overview of organizational commitment and willingness to engage in additional actions for the organization. The final empirical chapter and overarching research question asks why some attendees have varying levels of organizational commitment by building on organizational literature and an exploration of organizational conflict.Although previous efforts to explain religious activism signify the importance of multiple levels, the attendee, the congregation, and the community, those attempts continue to be limited by the exclusion of potentially important determinants, blinkered by their single level approach to religious activism. To account for the interaction between organizations and attendees, this project relies on data from the 2008/2009 U.S. Congregational Life Survey (USCLS) to test the hypotheses outlined in Chapters 3-5 and account for provides key benefits not found among alternative national samples of religious congregations, such as the surveying of attendees and leaders in addition to constructing a congregational profile. Thus, this dissertation uses multiple nested hierarchical models to test the interrelations between the congregations and attendees in Chapters 4 and 5. Chapter 3 uses ordered logistic regression to test the odds of higher levels of opportunities for action. Chapter 3 highlights the importance of leader agency and resource slack on the presence of organizational activism opportunities. In Chapter 4, I conclude that if individuals believe that the primary purpose of organizations are separate from activism, individuals may consequently be reluctant to engage in activism following requests. Chapter 5 demonstrates that organizational conflict is not only important for employee commitment, but it also influences commitment of members in voluntary organizations. The implications are especially substantial for social movement and organization theory in general. Scholars have argued about why organizations provide activism opportunities, how people respond, and variation in commitment to the organization, however the results are often generalized across organizational categories. For instance, resource slack and dependency, as well as leader agency and structure are routinely studied among intentional SMOs or employee organizations. However, as I demonstrate, the expected patterns of these factors on appropriable organizations are not always consistent.
Download or read book Politics in the Pews written by Eric McDaniel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Politics in the Pews probes the internal dynamics of political decision making within the Black church." ---William E. Nelson, Jr., Research Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University As Eric McDaniel demonstrates in his study of Black congregations in the U.S., a church's activism results from complex negotiations between the pastor and the congregation. The church's traditions, its institutional organization, and its cultural traditions influence the choice to make politics part of the church's mission. The needs of the local community and opportunities to vote, lobby, campaign, or protest are also significant factors. By probing the dynamics of churches as social groups, McDaniel opens new perspectives on civil rights history and the evangelical politics of the twenty-first century. Politics in the Pews contributes to a clearer understanding of the forces that motivate any organization, religious or otherwise, to engage in politics. Eric L. McDaniel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.
Download or read book Pipeline written by David J. Wilson and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it look like if your church really took the last words of Jesus seriously? The Great Commission was not just a suggestion by our Lord, but an imperative mandate given to his followers. Missionary sending agencies are deploying workers to the field, but many of them come from disengaged churches that are not producing well-equipped disciples. We need a fully integrated global supply chain—a pipeline—that has disciples as the precious commodity, as well as an effective infrastructure to distribute and replicate them around the globe. Pipeline seeks to re-engage the church in mobilizing the next generation of workers for the harvest. This is a collaboration of forty different authors from churches, agencies, and cross-cultural servants. As people in distant places wait for a messenger of hope and salvation, will your church venture into the pipeline?
Download or read book Equipping the Saints written by Michael J. Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts on congregational life tell us that ministry in the next century will depend more on called, trained, and committed lay leadership than it has since the days of the early church. But how will congregations recruit these lay leaders? How will they develop new models for training and equipping them for all the ministries of the church? What will the role of clergy be in adopting this new partnership that Leonard Sweet calls "ancient-future ministry"? Equipping the Saints seeks to help congregational leaders answer these and other questions related to mobilizing lay ministry in the years ahead. The chapters include: "Shall We Abolish the Clergy or the Laity?" by Michael Christensen; "Team Building Through Spiritual Gifts" by Brian Bauknight; "The Loss and Recovery of the Biblical Basis for Ministry" by Russell Moy; "Out of the Pew, Into the World" by Jessica Moffat; "The Seeker Service in the Mainline Church" by Eric Park; "Circuit Riding in the 21st Century" by Rob Duncan; and, "Life Together: Reclaiming the Ministry of Small Groups" by Christine Anderson. Key Features: - Responds to emerging trends that promise to be determinative of the shape of ministry in the next century - Addresses an important practical need in congregations - Offers help in formulating new models for congregational ministry Key Benefits: - Readers will understand the important emerging need for called, trained, and committed laypersons to engage in ministry - Readers will learn how to recruit and train lay leaders - Readers will identify a new model of clergy/lay ministry partnership
Download or read book Moved By Compassion written by Jamie Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God loves justice and He is clear in Scripture about wanting His people to care for the poor. While the church once played an integral role in meeting the needs of society, we have taken a back seat to such issues like poverty and caring for the marginalized. It has been said that if everyone in the church gave, there would be no world hunger. What if we actually put that to the test? What if the church cared deeply for their community and was courageously generous to those living in poverty in order to build the Kingdom of God here on Earth? Moved by Compassion helps pastors and church leaders understand: -God's perspective about issues related to poverty-God's design and purpose for our resources-The responsibility of the church to care for the poor and marginalized-How to shift the culture as it relates to church finance and generosity-Practical ways to start reaching those in needJesus told us that whatever we do to the "least of these," we are actually doing for Him. Moved by Compassion teaches you how to mobilize your church by reconnecting with Jesus' heart for the poor in your community so that in doing so, your city can be transformed.
Download or read book Mobilizing Inclusion written by Lisa Garcia Bedolla and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which get out the vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities, and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others do not. Exploring and comparing a wide variety of efforts targeting ethnoracial voters, the authors present a new theoretical frame: the social cognition model of voting, based on an individual's sense of civic identity, for understanding get out the vote effectiveness. Their book serves as a guide for political practitioners, for it offers concrete strategies to employ in developing future mobilization efforts.
Download or read book Smart Suits Tattered Boots written by Korie Little Edwards and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the complex role that Black religious leaders play—or don’t play—in twenty-first-century racial justice efforts Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. along with many of his Black religious contemporaries courageously mobilized for freedom, ushering in the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. Their efforts laid the groundwork for some of the greatest legislative changes in American history. Today, however, there is relatively limited mass mobilization led by Black religious leaders against systemic racism and racial inequality. Why don’t we see more Black religious leadership in today’s civil rights movements, such as Black Lives Matter? Drawing on fifty-four in-depth interviews with Black religious leaders and civic leaders in Ohio, Korie Litte Edwards and Michelle Oyakawa uncover several reasons, including a move away from engagement with independent Black-led civic groups toward white-controlled faith-based organizations, religious leaders’ nostalgia for and personal links to the legacy of the civil rights movement, the challenges of organizing around race-based oppression in an allegedly post-racial world, and the hierarchical structure of the Black religious leadership network, which may impede ministers’ work towards collective activism. Black clergy continue to care deeply about social justice and racial oppression. This book offers important insights into how they approach these issues today, illuminating the social processes that impact when, how, and why they participate in civic action in twenty-first-century America. It reveals the structure and limitations of the Black religious-leader community and its capacity for broad-based mobilization in the post–civil rights era.
Download or read book Energizing the Congregation written by Carl S. Dudley and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dudley and Johnson show how churches are revitalized by claiming the symbols that best articulate self-identity. They describe five images of churches' relationships to their communities over time--the survivor, prophet, pillar, pilgrim, and servant styles--found in a wide variety of congregations and situations.
Download or read book When the Saints Go Marching Out written by Art Beals and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastor, consultant, and award-winning author Art Beals challenges churches to see each member as a potential missionary; in so doing, churches return full circle to the New Testament church model of ministry. Founded in trinitarian theology, Beal's practical advice explores congregation-based mission, explains how to creatively mobilize resources for mission, and discusses how to train and care for volunteers. Beal's model for outreach emphasizes principles for partnership that provide mutual empowerment and long-term commitment.
Download or read book Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence written by Steve Corbett and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a low-income person asks your church for help, what do you do next? God is extraordinarily generous, and our churches should be, too. Because poverty is complex, however, helping low-income people often requires going beyond meeting their material needs to holistically addressing the roots of their poverty. But on a practical level, how do you move forward in walking with someone who approaches your church for financial help? From the authors of When Helping Hurts comes Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence, a guidebook for church staff, deacons, or volunteers who work with low-income people. Short and to the point, this tool provides foundational principles for poverty alleviation and then addresses practical matters, like: How to structure and focus your benevolence work How to respond to immediate needs while pursuing long-term solutions How to mobilize your church to walk with low-income people With practical stories, forms, and tools for churches to use, Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence is an all-in-one guide for church leaders and laypeople who want to help the poor in ways that lead to lasting change.
