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We Want You! Easy Recruiting Commercials for Children’s Ministry |
Synopsis: Humorous, emotional, and thought-provoking… these powerful commercials immediately encourage and motivate new and veteran volunteers to get involved in children’s ministry - and play an important role in kids’ lives! |
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Protecting Your Church Against Sexual Predators |
by Voyle A. Glover, Esq. |
Synopsis: “They sit in our pews. They come to our church picnics. They may even teach Sunday school or serve on a committee. They are sexual predators, and no church or ministry is immune to the devastating effects of child sexual abuse and the resulting litigation.
Good intentions alone will not stop the physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual damage resulting from just one incident of abuse. This invaluable guide, written by an experienced attorney and active church member, provides must-have information on important questions such as:
- What if a church member or leader is accused of molestation?
- What should be said to the media after an incident or an allegation?
- What insurance coverage should a church have?
- What screening and background checks should be used for church workers?
- What policies should be implemented to protect children?”
This book is easy to read, written in an honest and straightforward way. It contains vital information no church should be without. |
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The New Breed: Understanding and Equipping the 21st Century Volunteer |
By Jonathan R. McKee and Thomas W. Mckee |
Synopsis: Adapt to the changing world of volunteer management. More than ever, today's volunteers work online, need flexible hours, and want to play a role in defining their jobs. They also want to feel a sense of responsibility for your organization's overall mission. Harness this passion and potential-with results that uplift your goals and enable your volunteers.
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Synopsis: Humorous, emotional, and thought-provoking… these powerful commercials immediately encourage and motivate new and veteran volunteers to get involved in children’s ministry - and play an important role in kids’ lives! |
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The New Breed: Understanding and Equipping the 21st Century Volunteer |
By Jonathan R. McKee and Thomas W. Mckee |
Synopsis: Adapt to the changing world of volunteer management. More than ever, today's volunteers work online, need flexible hours, and want to play a role in defining their jobs. They also want to feel a sense of responsibility for your organization's overall mission. Harness this passion and potential-with results that uplift your goals and enable your volunteers.
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Teachers Touch Eternity One Heart at a Time |
by Ruth Geisler |
Softcover Devotional
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Synopsis: Written by a fellow teacher, this book is full of heartwarming devotionals and reminders of why we teach. Through your own personal experience, you will be able to relate to and at times, laugh with the author. |
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Preteen Ministry Smart Pages |
By Gordon and Becki West |
Ages 10-14 |
Synopsis: Because most children’s spiritual beliefs are in place by age 13, the preteen years are a crucial time to teach kids God’s truth. This resource gives you a solid, practical and comprehensive understanding of how to build an effective ministry that reaches this vital age group. Topics include: Understanding preteens, making preteen youth groups work, motivating and nurturing preteens, ministering to the families of preteens, recruiting and managing ministry volunteers. |
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From Daze to Knights |
How to Encourage, Energize and Empower Your Volunteer Staff |
by Craig Jutila |
Age: Adults |
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Daze to Knights:
- Includes over 100 ideas to help you meet the needs of your volunteer staff
- Contains ways to revolutionize your approach to volunteer recruitment and ministry enrichment
- Contains a highly practical system for maximizing the effectiveness of your volunteer staff
- By identifying important growth areas for our volunteer staff and being consistent in meeting their needs, we will be far more successful at retaining our volunteers and soaring to higher levels with a cohesive group of maturing staff
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First Impressions:
Creating Wow Experiences in Your Church |
By Mark L. Waltz |
Synopsis: Before a service even begins, first-time guests usually decide whether they’ll return to your church. This means church leaders need to create no-fail, practical ways to ensure a visitor’s first impression is the best impression. When guests feel valued, they will return. And when they do, they’ll have the opportunity to experience Jesus’ love. Let visitors know “You matter to God, so you matter to us.” Author Mark Waltz shares the strategies that work in his church – and takes “greeting” to a whole new level. Adapt these practical ideas to your church’s unique setting, and it won’t be long before everyone feels welcome. |
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Simply Strategic Volunteers:
Empowering People for Ministry |
By Tony Morgan and Tim Stevens |
Great for Volunteer Coordinators! |
Power up your ministry with empowered people! These in-the-trenches authors show you how to help volunteers use their strengths to benefit the church – and their spiritual growth. This comprehensive resource offers 99 straightforward solutions to help you recruit, train, motivate and keep volunteers in ministry. The authors give you field-tested ideas on how to create a serving environment, structure unique serving roles, help people learn how God has wired them for ministry, and more. |
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Teacher Training on the Go |
By Keith Johnson |
Train and retain volunteers! Teacher Training on the Go is a year’s work of painless, fun training volunteers desperately need! Reproducible handouts, an audio CD and more work around volunteers’ schedules, giving them instant training – on their own time. You’ll find 52 double-sided reproducible handouts to help volunteers be their best. Plus, you’ll get a CD-ROM with 12 email blasts (pre-written encouragements and affirmations) and clip art. The CD-ROM also allows you to print the handouts – or email them to busy volunteers. The handouts will help to prepare volunteers in important areas like: how to lead a child to Christ, improving your small group leader skills, balancing your family and your ministry, how to make Scripture stick and many more! |
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Children’s Ministry
Volunteers that Stick |
By Jim Wideman |
A great book for all church sizes! It's tough to recruit volunteers--so hang on to those you've got! You'll keep volunteers longer and keep them happier by giving them more than just a volunteer job. Instead, give them a volunteer career. Help them become leaders as well as volunteers! Here's everything you need to know to get your volunteers in the right job, then help them to grow in their skills and enthusiasm. Noted children's pastor Jim Wideman, from Church on the Move in Tulsa, Oklahoma, offers practical strategies for any size church. Learn the secrets of retention, and ideas that really work...instill proven leadership skills...and grow your church volunteers to be happy, inspired, and in it for the long haul. |
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Treat ‘Em Right! |
By Susan Cutshall |
Standard |
Age: Adults |
Synopsis: Great ideas for encouraging your volunteers. Includes 70 Reproducible Messages, which incorporate scripture, candy, cereal, cookies and other sources to encourage. |
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Children’s Ministry in the 21st Century |
by Craig Jutila, Jim Wideman, Pat Verbal and more! |
Synopsis: “Ten front-line Children’s Ministry experts peeked out over the horizon to identify ten trends shaping ministry in the next ten years. See inside to discover…
How current culture is rewiring kids’ brains- and secrets for connecting with children. The latest education trends embraced by schools – and how they’ll impact your Sunday school Morphing Children’s Ministry into Family Ministry – and how that supersizes your impact. What kinds of children are about to land in your ministry – and how to be ready for them. Plus six more must-know insights - and practical activities that help you take advantage of shifting trends in your Children’s Ministry” |
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Protecting Your Church Against Sexual Predators |
by Voyle A. Glover, Esq. |
Synopsis: “They sit in our pews. They come to our church picnics. They may even teach Sunday school or serve on a committee. They are sexual predators, and no church or ministry is immune to the devastating effects of child sexual abuse and the resulting litigation.
Good intentions alone will not stop the physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual damage resulting from just one incident of abuse. This invaluable guide, written by an experienced attorney and active church member, provides must-have information on important questions such as:
- What if a church member or leader is accused of molestation?
- What should be said to the media after an incident or an allegation?
- What insurance coverage should a church have?
- What screening and background checks should be used for church workers?
- What policies should be implemented to protect children?”
This book is easy to read, written in an honest and straightforward way. It contains vital information no church should be without. |
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So, You Wanna be a Writer |
By Vicki Hambleton and Cathleen Greenwood |
Beyond Words Publishing, Inc. |
Synopsis: A comprehensive book presenting all the information you need to become a published author. Learn the secrets involved in creating cool story lines, selling your stories, promoting your work, and much more! Read exclusive interviews with famous writers and consult the list of “must-knows” of 10 kids who’ve made it big. |
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Nursery Smart Pages |
A Guide for Nursery Directors & Caregivers |
Age: Adults/Teachers |
Synopsis: Jesus loves the little children, and with Nursery Smart Pages you have everything you need to guide little ones as they take their first steps in His kingdom. Nursery Smart Pages lets you provide babies and toddlers with much more than just great child care. This indispensable manual equips you and your nursery workers to nurture little ones physically, emotionally and spiritually! |
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Simply Strategic Volunteers:
Empowering People for Ministry |
By Tony Morgan and Tim Stevens |
Great for Volunteer Coordinators! |
Power up your ministry with empowered people! These in-the-trenches authors show you how to help volunteers use their strengths to benefit the church – and their spiritual growth. This comprehensive resource offers 99 straightforward solutions to help you recruit, train, motivate and keep volunteers in ministry. The authors give you field-tested ideas on how to create a serving environment, structure unique serving roles, help people learn how God has wired them for ministry, and more. |
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How to Have a Great Sunday School |
By Wes and Sheryl Haystead |
Gospel Light |
Age: All |
Synopsis: Instructional Course on Sunday School programs for all ages. Includes questionnaires that target the students’ interests and basically everything necessary for a Sunday School program so leaders don’t have to think of all the details on their own (does the work for you). Great for beginner Children’s Directors. Easy to ready format with graphics. Valuable liability information. |
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Group's Emergency Response Handbook
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Synopsis: You want to help. But don’t know how… Here are practical ways to love kids through their greatest challenges.
Amber just lost her mother to cancer. Sam’s parents are divorcing – and he’s torn in his loyalties. A job change in Dana’s family means she has to move – immediately.
Children face emergencies, too – and shouldn’t endure them alone.
When children in your care experience life’s struggles, what do you say? How can you help? What if you make things worse?
This rapid-response handbook gives you and your children’s ministry leaders the confidence to share God’s love and comfort with hurting children – and their families.
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The New Breed: Understanding and Equipping the 21st Century Volunteer |
By Jonathan R. McKee and Thomas W. Mckee |
Synopsis: Adapt to the changing world of volunteer management. More than ever, today's volunteers work online, need flexible hours, and want to play a role in defining their jobs. They also want to feel a sense of responsibility for your organization's overall mission. Harness this passion and potential-with results that uplift your goals and enable your volunteers.
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Reveal: Where Are You? |
The Answer Will Transform Your Church
by Greg L. Hawkins and Cally Parkinson |
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Synopsis: In an effort to better understand the hearts of people, Willow Creek Community Church undertook a three-year process of study and research to find a way to measure spiritual growth. And to see whether the church was accomplishing its mission of facilitating that growth. To that end, they surveyed not only their own congregation, but also six other church across the U.S. The results of the study were startling. Long-held assumptions crumbled. And Willow Creek came to grips with the fact that things had changed.
Now Willow Creek invites you to learn from its findings. You'll discover the four segments that characterize the journey of spiritual growth. You'll learn more about what catalyzes and stunts spiritual growth. And you'll understand how the church needs to change in order to help people become more like Christ. |
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The Fabulous Reinvention of Sunday School |
by Aaron Reynolds |
Synopsis: The Fabulous Reinvention of Sunday School is an indispensable guidebook to transformational teaching in children’s ministries of every size and setting. Designed with whimsical quirkiness and written with humor and passion, this book will transform the way you – and your kids – experience the life-changing potential of Sunday school. |
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First Impressions:
Creating Wow Experiences in Your Church |
By Mark L. Waltz |
Synopsis: Before a service even begins, first-time guests usually decide whether they’ll return to your church. This means church leaders need to create no-fail, practical ways to ensure a visitor’s first impression is the best impression. When guests feel valued, they will return. And when they do, they’ll have the opportunity to experience Jesus’ love. Let visitors know “You matter to God, so you matter to us.” Author Mark Waltz shares the strategies that work in his church – and takes “greeting” to a whole new level. Adapt these practical ideas to your church’s unique setting, and it won’t be long before everyone feels welcome. |
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Teaching with Heart |
“A Guide to Cherishing and Challenging Children in the Christian Classroom” |
by Jody Capehart |
Synopsis: This valuable guide helps teachers develop the spiritual understanding to cherish the unique personalities and learning styles of each child, while challenging them [to] grow up to be like Christ. This handbook also familiarizes teachers in the Christian classroom with the vast array of information available on educational theory while providing this information in a practical, useful, and reproducible form. |
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Serving with Eyes Wide Open |
by David A. Livermore |
Synopsis: Short-term mission trips are a great way to impact the kingdom. Yet they can lack effectiveness because of mistakes or naiveté on the part of participants. In this insightful and timely book, David A. Livermore calls us to serve with our eyes open to global and cultural realities so we can become more effective cross-cultural ministers. Serving with Eyes Wide Open is a must-have book for anyone doing a short-term mission or service project, whether domestic or overseas. |
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Preteen Ministry Smart Pages |
By Gordon and Becki West |
Ages 10-14 |
Synopsis: Because most children’s spiritual beliefs are in place by age 13, the preteen years are a crucial time to teach kids God’s truth. This resource gives you a solid, practical and comprehensive understanding of how to build an effective ministry that reaches this vital age group. Topics include: Understanding preteens, making preteen youth groups work, motivating and nurturing preteens, ministering to the families of preteens, recruiting and managing ministry volunteers. |
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The Creative Storytelling Guide
for Children's Ministry |
by Steven James |
Synopsis: Whether you're new to storytelling, or you've been telling stories for years, this book will help you tell God's story more creatively and effectively than you ever imagined you could! You'll learn to improve your teaching through more effective storytelling, prepare and tell Bible stories in less time, master a step-by-step process for developing your own way of retelling stories, and adapt your lessons and curriculum to connect with the students in your class. |
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The Five Love Languages of Children |
By Gary Chapman & Ross Campbell, M.D. |
Synopsis: Sometimes parents speak different love languages than their children. This book can help you to discover your child's primary love language: quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service and physical touch. Learn what you can do to effectively convey feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in your child's soul. |
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Nursery Smart Pages |
A Guide for Nursery Directors & Caregivers |
Age: Adults/Teachers |
Synopsis: Jesus loves the little children, and with Nursery Smart Pages you have everything you need to guide little ones as they take their first steps in His kingdom. Nursery Smart Pages lets you provide babies and toddlers with much more than just great child care. This indispensable manual equips you and your nursery workers to nurture little ones physically, emotionally and spiritually! |
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The Kid Book |
By Vicki C. Barnes |
For Kids Only, Inc. |
Age: Adults |
Synopsis: Excellent resource for both parents, teachers, future parents, and ministry leaders; will help them understand their own personalities as well as the children they are impacting. Uses four different colors as personality types and refers to the best methods for dealing with each of the different personality types. |
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The Kid Book Surveys |
By Vicki C. Barnes |
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Vicki Barnes Seminars |
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Age: K-3 or 4-6 (2 different surveys) |
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Synopsis: Quick, easy survey that children can fill out to discover their individual personality types. Personality types are given a name, symbol and color and are described for adults to go over with kids.
Price $3.00
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Reclaim your School! |
10 Steps to Practically and Legally Evangelize Your School |
By Brad and Susanne Dacus |
Pacific Justice Institute |
Synopsis: This book is an excellent tool for those who recognize the need to share Christ in our world. Written for students, parents, teachers, and pastors, it is an effective motivator for those who want to impact the public school system in powerful, legal ways. Offers ways to legally share Christ in the public school system, and gives excellent explanations and resources. |
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