Best Practices from America's Best Churches
Protestant and Catholic Trailblazers The New Orleans Pastoral Summit united Protestant and Catholic clergy in an unprecedented mutual search for today's best ways to spread the Word. With churches as small as 60 members and as large as 10,000, these clergy shared their hands-on, groundbreaking strategies to revitalize both individuals and communities. Their presentations are collected here, as well as contact information for each presenter. Dynamic from first page to last, this exciting new book shows how to-- - create a warm, welcoming church environment. - transform ordinary churchgoers into enthusiastic lay leaders. - successfully get members to tithe their time, talents, and money. - reach youth, the unchurched, and the marginalized. - prevent pastoral and lay leader burnout. - better fill the needs of the community and surrounding neighborhood. +
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0809141353
ISBN13:9780809141357
Release Date:May 2003
Publisher:Paulist Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Best Practices from Effective Churches
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Wilkes has provided excellent insights into what practices are actually fruitful not in his own words, but in the words of pastors and lay leaders around the United States. It is not written as a primer on church leadership, but rather invites leaders from exemplary churches to share what they have learned about how God is working in and through their churches. It is a diverse bunch of churches and not a one-size fits all prescription. Emminently practical and based on observations of pastors and lay leaders in the trenches bringing the gospel to bear in this very challenging time.
Lots of great ideas for every ministry!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Are you looking for ways to inspire more parishoners to come to church? Ways to get them deeper into their faith? Ways to bring unchurched people in contact with Jesus? This book has a lot of answers. The format is a series of brief (10-15 page) essays written by parish leaders of "best practice" Catholic and Protestant churches that cover a wide variety of ministry topics: evangelizing, preaching, fundraising, etc. Each topic contains two or more essays, usually with a different focus. Since there are so many types of churches and viewpoints represented, you will probably think some ideas sound great and other ideas don't really fit. But it seems as though all these churches struggle with the same basic questions regardless of denomination. It's definitely possible you could pick out just one or two ideas here that could be implemented in your church and really change lives.
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