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Suitable for the churches facing the challenges of maintaining buildings, rising costs and dwindling congregations while wanting to be generous to others in need, this manual offers guidance to: giving your church a 'financial makeover', growing its resources, and maximising the regular giving of the congregation through Gift Aid.
Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
A concise, practical introduction to managing your church's resources in difficult times, whatever your budget. Avoiding quick-fix solutions, it outlines effective ways to maximise your income, strengthen your financial stability, and free you up to concentrate on mission and ministry.
A practical handbook for churches experiencing sharp decline in attendances, falling numbers of clergy and having financial resources stretched to the limit. It offers solutions in relation to shortages of people, skills, finance and facilities, illustrated with real life examples and case studies.
A money-saving handbook for all who care for and maintain church buildings, this practical and comprehensive guide provides expert advice from a leading church architect and an experienced heritage buildings specialist. They also show how church buildings can be tools for contemporary mission, packed with potential for community engagement.
Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
Consultancy is increasingly being used to support mission and to help church leaders and workers in the challenges they face in their work. Helping churches and workers understand their situation and develop effective strategies demands skilful consultants who can handle issues of context and theology, the characteristics of voluntary sector organisations, and mission in a post-modern world. This guide to being a church consultant offers rigorous, practical consultancy theory and tools as well as pointing to a rich range of methods and models for further investigation. By integrating the insights of practical theory, organizational studies, the social sciences and a range of helping skills, consultants will be able to support those who are leading change in churches in processes which are more explicit and carefully thought through than is often the case. This book encourages consultants to develop their own model and practice built on a healthy cycle of sound theory, evaluated practice and thoughtful feedback.
In Collaborative Practical Theology, Henk de Roest documents and analyses research on Christian practices as it can be conducted by academic practical theologians in collaboration with practitioners of different kinds in Christian practices all around the world.
In the 1960s an extraordinary period of renewal came to the Church of the Redeemer in Houston, Texas. Eventually the renewal came to Britain in the shape of the Community of Celebration, whose ministry teams known as the Fisherfolk became a worldwide phenomenon. How did it make the transition from a large family oriented community to a type of vowed religious order? Philip Bradshaw, an Anglican, reflects on his life with the Community since its early beginnings.