Although 44 percent of all adults are unmarried, most churches are focused on marriage and families--and so miss many opportunities to reach out as well as to benefit from all that singles can offer to the church.Here at last is an up-to-date, comprehensive handbook to single adult ministry. Based on his over twenty-five years of experience, Dennis Franck offers church leaders guidance on all aspects of this often-overlooked ministry, including: -understanding singles' diverse life situations and needs -developing a biblical philosophy of ministry -the practical aspects of building a ministry Pastors and lay leaders will gratefully welcome this new in-depth resource to guide their ministry to, for, and through single adults.
I read this book as I was interviewing to take the position that I now have as a full time singles minister. It is an intimidating task to build a ministry from the ground up, but Dennis Franck's wisdom and experience made it much less so. Franck outlines the different life situations that are represented by people in a singles ministry, some useful methods in meeting the spiritual needs of those people, and some mistakes to avoid. If I were going to find any weakness in the book it would be that it is not as focused as I wish it were on the Scriptural truths behind the methods. It also encourages singles leaders to teach topically, whereas my personal teaching philosophy is more on the biblical/expository end of the spectrum. Given those issues, this is still a great book. I got to spend some time with the author at a conference not long ago, and I could tell that what he wrote flowed out of his genuine heart for singles and not out of a desire just to write a book. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who, like me, is getting started in singles ministry and looking for wisdom to make it effective.
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