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MINISTRY RESOURCES
INDEX OF CONTENT
I. Books >GO> II. Websites, e-zines/ periodicals & other publications >GO>
III.Articles & reports >GO> IV.Leadership Development >GO>
V.Peacemakers Ministries – Handling Conflict Biblically >GO>
VI.Technology’s Use in Ministry >GO> VII.Training and Education >GO>
VIII.Other Ministry Helps >GO>
CHRISTIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ENCOURAGES DOCTORS TO MINISTER TO THE POOR > GO>
Featured helps
Prayer - Build your own Personal Prayer Team that communicates quickly & easily - Make your church a House of Prayer - Starting with a Pastor's Prayer Team - MyPrayerTeam.com
Service - The Halftime Initiative provides encouragement, tools, and experiences that help successful people pursue significance. The Halftime Initiative helps churches and non-profit organizations discover and deploy Halftimers into ministry.
Bob Buford of Halftime is now offering a periodic newsletter of insights into "converting the latent energy in American Christianity into active energy." You can sign up here.
Christianbooksummaries.com Enhancing the ministry and impact of thinking Christians by providing thorough and readable summaries of noteworthy books from Christian publishers.
Recent Summaries:
“Total Truth” Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity” by Nancy Pearcey.
“The Case for a Creator” A Journalist Investigates Evidence that Points Toward God by Lee Strobel.
“Getting Through the Tough Stuff” by Chuck Swindoll
Good Reads: Books We Recommend
Church of Irrestible Influence – Bridge - Building Stories to Help Reach Your Community
Culture Shift shows pastors and other church leaders how to: Build an irresistible church culture. Change a culture that is at odds with your vision. Recognize the signs of genuine progress. Keep your new culture aligned with your mission.
Becoming a World-Changing Family: Fun and Innovative Ways to Spread the Good News Author Donna Thomas issues the clarion call for Christian families to participate in Jesus' Great Commission. Chock-full of practical recommendations for Christian missions, each chapter ends with a series of suggestions and questions: "What You Can Do Today as a Family." The book will also lend itself to study by adult Sunday school classes, since it offers a natural focal point for mission projects taken on by small groups as well as families.
II. Websites, E-zines/periodicals and other publications
Godspy.com celebrates the passionate faith alive inside the Catholic Church
E-Pistle -Prism's Magazine's E-zine
Relevant Magazine: God, Life, Progressive Culture
...on the need for balancing ‘word’ and ‘deed’ in ministry
Becoming a Church that Changes the World 
Reforming Attitudes Toward the Poor
Leadership Network
Leadership Network: Our mission is to identify, connect and help high-capacity Christian leaders multiply their impact.
Resources From Leadership Network
Research in Healthcare, Senior Adult Ministries
Leadership Network is engaged in a research project to discover innovative ways churches are addressing healthcare and wellness issues. If your church is pursuing ministries in these areas--especially through programs serving local communities--we want to hear your story.
Contact us to contribute to this potential Healthcare & Wellness Ministries Leadership Community.
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Leadership Network Advance is an indispensable, twice-monthly, free email newsletter featuring
the best in innovative church strategies. You'll gain insights from the ministry pioneers who are setting the standard for tomorrow's church. Each issue will also point you to resources, tools
and events that will help you build a more effective ministry.
Ever thought about using the arts to teach life skills? We are doing it. Our developing Life Arts Academy provides learning in money management, healthy lifestyles, social skills, spiritual development and more. There is a lot of interest in this new Academy with a second pilot to begin this month in a group home. Contact sargo@buildabridge.org for more information.
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Church Planting Resources from Leadership Network
Peacemakers - Resources to Help You Respond to Conflict Biblically
The mission of Peacemaker Ministries is to equip and assist Christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically. We prepare church leaders, adults, and children for peacemaking through educational resources, seminars, and training. We also provide conflict coaching, mediation, and arbitration services to resolve church and ministry disputes, lawsuits, family ivisions, and business conflicts.
Articles:
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Church Discipline Really Works (pt. 1) When you make it loving and redemptive.
Church Discipline Really Works (pt. 2) How to find courage (and avoid lawsuits) when confronting sinning believers.
"Polemic Theology: How to Deal with Those Who Differ from Us
Resources:
Peacefakers, Peacebreakers, & Peacemakers curriculum offers practical insights from God's Word and highly relevant case studies for anyone who wants more peaceable relations with family members, co-workers, neighbors, fellow church members, and others
The Young Peacemaker teaches children how to prevent and resolve conflict in a constructive and biblically faithful manner.
PeaceMeal a weekly e-publication of Peacemaker Ministries -
Show, Don't Tell: Alternatives to Directly Confronting
"If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over." (Matthew 18:15)
When Christians think about talking to someone else about a conflict, one of the first verses that comes to mind is Matthew 18:15: "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you." If this verse is read in isolation, it seems to teach that we must always use direct confrontation to force others to admit they have sinned. If the verse is read in context, however, we see that Jesus had something much more flexible and beneficial in mind than simply standing toe to toe with others and describing their sins....
Want to know what you've been missing at the PeaceMeal Table?
Equipping Organizations
Network 9:35 - Connecting and resources churches engaged in compassion ministry.
Evangelicals for Social Action - Challenging and equipping the church to be agents of God's redemption and transformation in the world.
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Check out the new Urban Ministry Training page on our TechMission Website, which is available to the general public (not just members!) Access it under “Training” and then click on Urban Ministry or by simply clicking on www.techmission.org/training/urban_ministry.php
Attention faith-based community computer centers or those who would like to
use computers in your ministry.
Click here for all the Technology Resources
La misión de la Universidad FLET es brindar una educación universitaria teológica y bíblica al mundo hispanohablante por medio de la enseñanza a distancia. Universidad FLET 14540 SW 136 St., Suite 202, Miami, FL 33186. 305-378-8700
Parenting
What Stories Does My Son Need? by Michael Gurian. Every urban youth worker knows the power and influence Hollywood has on teens. Typically, youth workers have to try to mitigate the negative influences of the on-screen sex, violence, and materialism. But some stories and movies can actually aid in character development What Stories Does My Son Need? suggests 200 books and movies that provide parents with stories to develop the character of boys. The author provides an annotated listing of age appropriate stories and highlights the particular ethical lessons the stories can impart on boys and young men.
Agreeing and Disagreeing in Love Commitments in Times of Disagreement
The International Steward trains ministry leaders in the Biblical principles and skills related to the ministry of stewardship and growing in the "grace of giving."
Sharing the Good News with hurricane survivors - Campus Crusade had developed a 16-page booklet Focus is on "show and tell" the message of Jesus, along with doing good deeds.
Online Scripture Reading and Research - Read and research Scripture online – in the language or translation of your choice, all for free. Use this site to compare up to 18 English translations and conduct searches based on keywords or reference.
The Dictionary of Religion is an online dictionary of over 10,000 religious phrases, names, places, and ideas compiled from a number of different public domain sources.
CHRISTIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ENCOURAGES DOCTORS TO MINISTER TO THE POOR
Washington, DC (February 13, 2006): The Christian Medical & Dental Associations, the nation's largest faith-based
organization of Christian doctors, today announced a new initiative to encourage doctors to give of their time and
resources to help the poor.
“We are pleased to be introducing the Four-Percent Solution program to doctors around the country,” said Dr. Al Weir, director of Campus and Community Ministries and director of Medical Education International for the 17,000-member CMDA. “The Four-Percent Solution offers very practical, tangible ways for doctors to put their faith and compassion into action.
“What we're asking doctors to do,” explained Dr. Weir, “is to consider and commit to specific strategies to use God’s blessings to them in a way that blesses someone far less fortunate.”
“For example,” Dr. Weir said, “a doctor may choose to spend two weeks a year - about four percent of the year - in overseas mission work that directly impacts the healthcare, housing, job skills or nutrition of the poor.”
Doctors can accomplish their goal through the CMDA's Global Health Outreach or Medical Education International, or through other mission organizations. Global Health Outreach offers over 40 trips a year to minister directly to poor patients, and Medical Education International sends doctors to teach doctors in other countries about the latest patient care techniques.
Both outreach programs emphasize not only physical care and training but also spiritual ministry.
Dr. Weir explained, “Other options that doctors may consider for service and giving include accepting one uninsured patient out of every 25 patients - four percent of all the patients they see in their practices. Some doctors may choose to volunteer about eight hours a month in a healthcare clinic for the poor. Others may want to supplement their local church giving by contributing an additional four percent of their net profits to the poor - through the church or another Christian ministry serving the poor.”
Dr. Gene Rudd, CMDA associate executive director added, “We doctors often get so busy that we sometimes neglect the very things we consider most important. The Four Percent Solution program helps busy doctors nail down specific commitments that help them to translate their values and their faith into action.”
Dr. David Stevens, CMDA Executive Director and author of the book JESUS MD, added, “The Christian Medical & Dental Associations is pleased to partner in this program with the Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship, the Church Health Center, the Christian Community Health Fellowship and Christ Community Health Services. Each of the groups involved in the Four-Percent initiative have a proven history of reaching out to the poor with both physical and spiritual help.”
“Our common goal,” Dr. Stevens noted, “is to encourage and provide opportunities for thousands of doctors to honor God and His Word by caring for the poor and uninsured. We're convinced that Jesus - the Great Physician - would encourage doctors to focus on opportunities to minister to the needy among us.”
Doctors who have already committed to this level of service to the poor, and those who wish to begin, are urged to contact Dr. Al Weir at 1-888-230-2637 or by e-mail at 4percent@cmda.org
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