Counseling Risks 101
Offering counsel is a valuable ministry, but it doesn’t come without its dangers.
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Why They Don't Come Back
Visitors can be turned off by behavior, buildings, and disorder.
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How to Build a Great Board
Growing godly decision-makers takes intentional effort.
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The Pastor’s Role in Short-Term Missions
A pastor explains how the most visible church leader can promote short-term missions.
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How Pure Must a Church Leader Be?
Becoming a person of integrity
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Ministry Review of Objectives and Goals
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Is Your Church Fiscally Fit
Four factors to help you determine the vitality of your church finances.
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How God Evaluates Worship
Putting good theology into congregational practice involves more than just the mind.
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ASSESSMENTS
Spiritual Growth
This pack features 8 quality assessment tools from the Spiritual Formation, Energy & Enthusiasm, and Knowing God Training Themes. Use them with your team as a catalyst for moving their relationship with the Lord to the next level and be on your way to having a healthier and more dynamic church. Each assessment conveniently fits on one page, so they're easy to print, copy and hand out.


BEST CHURCH PRACTICES
Volunteer Applications
With better volunteer applications, your church will be more likely to find the right people, and to help those people find the right position—all while carefully limiting your risk. These forms can be altered, customized, and printed out to make your application process more thorough, safe, and legal.


CARTOONS
Spiritual Disciplines
Prayer. Solitude. Bible reading. The path to spiritual growth. But these cartoons put a new twist on how each of these disciplines could be practiced a little differently.


CASE STUDIES
Working in Team Ministry
This pack features 5 Case Studies from the popular Building Church Leaders Training Themes that involve real life, common church situations. Use these discussion tools with your team to learn how to work best when you have multiple leaders and volunteers: how to handle conflicts between people, how to make decisions as a team, and how to keep each other accountable. Each Case Study conveniently fits on one page, so they're easy to print, copy, and hand out.


CHURCH ADMINISTRATION
Fire Prevention and Control
Help your staff members identify and correct hazards to reduce the risk of fire. Both paid employees and volunteer workers should become familiar with these inspection protocols and perform them as a routine part of their duties.


ORIENTATION GUIDES
Church Board Member
This guide to helps you make new members feel welcome, provides orientation and training on new responsibilities, and helps increase leadership competency in new church board members.


PRACTICAL MINISTRY SKILLS
Answering Tough Questions
This tool is designed to help equip anyone who needs to speak into a difficult situation—for those times when life seems unfair, or when God's good plan is difficult to discern. You may use it either for a training session or to give individually to key people involved in reaching out to others during hard times. Simply print the handouts needed and use them as necessary.


POWERPOINT
Motivating Leaders
Pass out “Finding Your Leadership Style,†which will help your leaders identify their primary leadership gifts-and thus strengthen your church. These handouts will communicate to your leaders that ministry, at its core, is a heart for God.


SURVIVAL GUIDES
Injecting New Life Into Your Congregation
Are you discouraged and frustrated because your church is stagnant, or even shrinking? Do your church's challenges seem greater than the opportunities?

If you're in a small church or a small community, download these nine articles from Leadership journal to give you new confidence. You'll learn how to motivate your congregation, recognize and respond to problems that may be holding your church back, and you'll receive other tips for moving your vision forward.


TRAINING THEMES
Creating Community
Fellowship is more than coffee talk between worship and Sunday school, but how can we move beyond small talk to help relationships become more authentic? This theme covers communication basics, such as how to respect others in speech, and tackles harder topics, such as promoting confession and why we resist honesty with others.


URGENT CARE
Spiritual Warfare
This pack features 8 quality assessment tools from the Spiritual Formation, Energy & Enthusiasm, and Knowing God Training Themes. Use them with your team as a catalyst for moving their relationship with the Lord to the next level and be on your way to having a healthier and more dynamic church. Each assessment conveniently fits on one page, so they're easy to print, copy, and hand out.


WOMEN LEADERS
A Spirit Fit to Lead
When our souls aren't being nourished, it can be easy to bring unnecessary challenges into leadership situations-whether at church, work, or even at home. Maybe we aren't as patient as we could be. Maybe we seek conflict instead of peace. Maybe we ignore the promptings of the Holy Spirit when we should be focused on them.


WORSHIP ESSENTIALS
Video Projection
This tool will help you understand and establish values and policies for using images and video in your worship services. You'll also learn where to get projection software, and how to select and use the right equipment to make your video projection the most effective for your congregation.


POWERPOINT
Creating Community
Creating Community covers communication basics such as how to respect others in speech, and tackles harder topics such as promoting confession and why we resist honesty with others


BUILDING SMALL GROUPS
Identifying and Launching New Leaders
Anyone in small group ministry knows it is challenging to find new leaders and get them started. Discover a leadership assessment process that will identify the readiness of each potential leader in your ministry and clarify different training paths to help them move toward leadership.

This tool is adapted from "Identifying and Launching New Small Group Leaders," a Willow Creek Small Groups Conference workshop by Dave Treat.


BUILDING SMALL GROUPS
Leading a Great Small Group Bible Study
Most churches' small groups are study groups. Most study groups are Bible study groups, or use thematic curriculum based on Scripture. This tool will help you learn how to create a climate of growth and community within your Bible study group, including ways to use the group to reach seekers. Find out methods of private Bible study to prepare for each group session, and discover how to guide stimulating discussions

CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
Influence Those Above You
Leading can be thought of as making things happen. When you lead down you have the ability to make things happen; when you lead across you influence peers to make things happen; leading up is influencing people above you to make things happen. The last type of leading seems the most difficult, but it doesn't have to be. This handout will help you deal in a positive way with those above you by helping you identify whom you most need to influence, how to prepare to be an influence, and what specific tools you need to influence those above you.

This tool is adapted from "Leading Up," a PromiseLand Conference workshop by David Staal. PromiseLand is a ministry of the Willow Creek Association.


CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
Attracting First-Time Volunteers
It can be a challenge to find volunteers from outside the usual circle of people. You may have tried various events or appeals to invite new faces into your children's ministry—but what strategies really work? A survey of more than 800 recruiting ideas revealed that the best-proven strategies contain the same ingredients. If you want to motivate new people to join your children's ministry, you'll need to know the strategies that succeed at motivating first-time volunteers.

This tool is adapted from "The Great Kid-venture," a PromiseLand Conference workshop by Jim Braniff. PromiseLand is a ministry of the Willow Creek Association.


ONE PAGE GUIDE
5 Big Questions from The Da Vinci Code
Give this free handout to friends and family who have questions about this controversial subject.


POWERPOINT
The DNA of Relationships
Dr. Gary Smalley tells us the whys and hows of relationships.


CERTIFICATES
Children's Ministry
The Children's Ministry Certificate Pack includes eight professionally-designed certificates for honoring and motivating the kids in your ministry.

CHURCH RESEARCH
Christians and Sex
Understand and compare the sexual and marital issues affecting today's pastors and church laity.


ORDERS OF WORSHIP
Installation of Lay Leaders
How to charge your new leaders with their duty to serve the church.