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Dancing through Thistles in Bare Feet: A Pastoral JourneyView
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by Gary Harder
  paperback, 152 pages, $15.95
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Autobiography
Gary Harder reflects on 42 years as a pastor. With deeply personal stories, he recalls the surprises of God's mysterious healing work. Amid the chaos of people's lives, Harder finds God is often present in unexpected ways. Harder creates a candid and lively conversation between the experience and reflection; between the biblical witness and the stark reality of conflict in the church; between crisis and opportunities for ministry.

Copyright 2008 Herald Press

 
In Tune With God: The Art of Congregational DiscernmentView
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by Sally Weaver Glick
  paperback, 214 pages, $12.95
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Is God calling us to start a daycare in our neighborhood? Whom shall we call as our next pastor? May we serve Communion to believers who are not yet baptized? How does our congregation describe its mission?

This book helps congregations learn how to make decisions in healthy ways-focused on God's purposes, and growing in love and truth. Sally Weaver Glick approaches congregational discernment as a process of hearing and entering God's "song." Discernment is what we do to distinguish between God's music and our own static and noise. Good discernment says Weaver Glick, lets God's song "sing through us and shape us, so that we can join in harmoniously, responding to God's love and mercy."

In Tune with God works best in a congregational study setting. It includes stories of real congregations dealing with real issues; a wealth of practical tips for conducting healthy discernment; a leader's guide; an outline for a one- day retreat; and a creative series of "dialogues for two Fools for Christ" that introduce the themes of each chapter.

Copyright 2004 Faith and Life Resources

 
A Healing Grief: Walking with Your Friend Through LossView
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by Sara Wengerd
  paperback, 75 pages, $9.95
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Author Sara Wengerd had years of experience with death via her work as a hospice nurse and caring for the elderly. Then it happened to her. Beginning with the first moment that she heard the news of her husband's accident, through the first day, the funeral, and the next two years, Wengerd illuminates the grieving process with heartfelt and surprising candor.

Everyone feels awkward and hesitant when talking to a recently bereaved person. We don't want to say the wrong thing, or cause the person to become emotional. A Healing Grief is an antidote to this problem. At the end of each chapter is a list of practical advice and tangible suggestions for action that friends and family can take to comfort and show love to the bereaved.

A Healing Grief is the personal memoir and experience of one journey through grief, but can serve as a point of resonance with which to enter your own situation-whether grieving yourself, or supporting someone who is.

Copyright 2002.

 
Training Ministry Teams: A Manual for Elders and DeaconsView
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by Anne Stuckey
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This book provides practical instruction to help pastors and congregational leaders bring clarity and purpose to the role of elders or deacons, and to help deacons or elders learn and refine their ministry. Each of the nine sessions in Training Ministry Teams reflects on Jesus' method of training leaders and works toward a specific outcome. Topics include: working as a ministry team, decision-making, mediating conflict, visitation, partnering with the pastor, and more. Sessions conclude with group assignments designed to move participants from theory to action. Also included are resources to help in calling, commissioning, and nurturing elders and deacons

Copyright 2004 Faith and Life Resources.

 
Thank You For Asking: Conversing with Young Adults about the Future ChurchView
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by Sarah Wenger Shenk
  paperback, 200 pages, $14.95
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Young Adult
This is a book of stories-the stories of young adults as told to other young adults who are working hard with imagination, longing and love to weave a coherent faith and way of life. The stories provide exemplary illustrations of how young adults are drawing vibrant threads from the wonderful, but somewhat frayed heritage they've been given and weaving them into a new coherency. They show the way toward a future church that will be authentic, down-to-earth, and life giving for their generation.

The young adults in this book invite pastors, parents, and friends into a potentially transformative dialogue about the stories and practices we use to make sense of our world and to form a way of life. The work young adults do is challenging work, often lonely work; but when done in the company of loved and respected others, it is the heart and soul of what makes life good. As we enter into genuine conversation with t he questions and visions of young adults, our faith communities will be transformed.

Copyright 2005 Herald Press

 
Reaching Beyond the Mennonite Comfort Zone: Exploring from the Inside OutView
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by Will Schirmer
  paperback, 172 pages, $14.95
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Missions
Here is a resource for Mennonites who wish to reach "beyond the Mennonite comfort zone." The Mennonite church is undergoing historic transitions: New denominational structures, a new vision, a new focus, and a new spirit of mission-mindedness-or as Mennonites now put it, being missional. These exciting changes require rethinking of relationships with each other and with people beyond Mennonite congregations, as Mennonites seek to fulfill the great commission of linking the message of the gospel with needs of surrounding communities. 
A Door of Hope: Spiritual Conflict in Pastoral MinistryView
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by Robert Thornton Henderson
  paper, 168 pages, $12.95
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Spirituality
Today's faithful pastors are in crisis. Pastoral breakdown, abuse, confusion, and divorce have reached epidemic proportions in many denominations. Drawing on conversations with pastors in the trenches, Robert Thornton Henderson describes a "battle behind the battle." There is a realm of spiritual forces, cosmic antagonisms, principalities and powers that draws congregations toward death.

When these forces are ignored, the outlook is grim. But when pastors are energized by a biblical understanding of the church's redemptive participation in Jesus' victory over the cosmic powers, congregations spring to new life.

 
Preaching Biblical Sermons: Three Contemporary StrategiesView
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by Raymone O. Bystrom
  paperback, 178 pages, $25.00
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Worship
Preaching Biblical Sermons is a travel guide of the current homiletical landscape. It's a call for preachers to embrace a wide variety of sermonic forms. You will find three new sermon forms described in broad strokes, including sermon preparation tips and sample sermons by each of the three homileticians. The theology of preaching behind each approach is briefly described and each strategy is carefully evaluated in terms of its strengths and weaknesses. The author implements each of the three strategies by providing a sermon that demonstrates that these approaches are adaptable by today's pastors.

Copyright 2006 Kindred Productions

 
Telling Our Stories: Personal Accounts of Engagements with ScriptureView
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by Ray Gingerich and Earl Zimmerman, editors
  paperback, 288 pages, $21.95
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Theology
How does the church address its differences? How can the struggle draw us together rather than drive us apart? This book tells of a gathering that asked these questions amid stories reporting on each participant's journey with Scripture. The book also describes a model for such engagement.

Telling their stories are such pastors, administrators, and teachers as (in order of appearance) Malinda Elizabeth Berry and Liz Landis, Jo-Ann Brant, Owen E. Burkholder, J. Ron Byler, Lin Garber, Roy Hange, Nancy R. Heisey, John Kampen, Richard A. Kauffman, Paul Keim, Marilyn Rayle Kern, Phil Kniss, James Krabill, Susan Mark Landis, Cynthia A. Lapp, G. Crag Maven, Keith Graber Miller, Lee Snyder, Dorothy Jean Weaver, J. Denny Weaver, and the editors.

Copyright 2006 Cascadia Publishing House

 
Preparing Sunday DinnerView
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by Marlene Kropf, Rebecca Slough, and June Alliman Yoder
  paperback, 480 pages, $18.95
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Using the metaphor of a meal, the authors look at how preachers and worship leaders can collaborate on a "Sunday dinner" of praise that feeds individual Christians, and their communities. They address the steps of planning, preparing, and hosting worship and examine some of the challenges and pitfalls faced by those who collaborate in ministry.

Copyright 2006 Herald Press.

 
41 Ways to Build a Better Youth GroupDetails...
A Fierce Goodbye: Living in the Shadow of SuicideDetails...
A Mennonite Polity for Ministerial LeadershipDetails...
Building TogetherDetails...
Called to Equip: A Training and Resource Manual of PastorsDetails...
Congregations and Pastors: Reflections on the Work of the ChurchDetails...
Doing Good Better: How to be an Effective Board Member of a Nonprofit OrganizationDetails...
Doing Good Even Better: How to be an Effective Board Member of a Nonprofit OrganizationDetails...
For Better, For WorseDetails...
Fun Bible SkitsDetails...
Fun Bible Skits 2Details...
Harold S. Bender, 1897-1962Details...
Making Disciples: Preparing People for Baptism, Church Membership, and the Christian LifeDetails...
Meditations For MeetingsDetails...
Mennonite Perspectives on Pastoral CounsellingDetails...
Not As The Scribes: Jesus as a Model for Prophetic PreachingDetails...
Pioneers in Ministry: Woman Pastors in Ontario Mennonite Churches 1973-2003Details...
Planting the Seed of HopeDetails...
Servant Leadership for Church Renewal: Shepherds by the Living SpringsDetails...
She Has Done a Good Thing: Mennonite Women Leaders Tell Their StoriesDetails...
Shepherds, Servants and Prophets: Leadership Among the Russian Mennonites (ca 1880-1960)Details...
Social Ministry: An Urgent Agenda for Pastors and ChurchesDetails...
Soul Care: Caregiving in the ChurchDetails...
Soul Care: How to Plan and Guide Inspirational RetreatsDetails...
Speaking About MoneyDetails...
The Dogmatic Imagination: The Dynamics of Christian BeliefDetails...
The Heart of the Matter: Pastoral Ministry in Anabaptist PerspectiveDetails...
The Little Books of Justice and PeacebuildingDetails...
The Way of Wisdom in Pastoral CounselingDetails...
Things They Never Taught You in SeminaryDetails...
Through Laughter and Tears: The Church CelebratesDetails...
Transforming Conflict in Your Church: A Practical GuideDetails...
Word of Mouth: Creatve Ways to Present ScriptureDetails...
You Can't Help but Listen: User-Friendly Oral CommunicationDetails...

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