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Organizing for Holistic Ministry

ORGANIZING FOR HOLISTIC MINISTRY

Warning Signs of an Unhealthy Organization

How healthy are your church’s organizational systems? There are three warning
signs that indicate a need to renovate your church’s structure.

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Biblical Principles for the Church's Outreach Ministry

 

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Alphabet Soup for the Volunteer’s Soul

This collection of brief devotionals is designed to help volunteers grow spiritually through their volunteer experience.

 

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Our Church’s Mission Devotional Guide

This devotional guide helps groups reflect and pray on their church’s mission and the Biblical basis for outreach.

 

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Ideas for Moving from Relief to Development

This is a tool for guiding church leaders in assessing current ministries and encouraging them to deepen their work beyond simple, short-term relief.

 

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Goals for Community, Church, and Personal Transformation

Group exercise to help churches identify goals in their community ministry for the community, the church, and those participating in the work.

 

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Community Study: A Guide to Understanding Your Church’s Context for Ministry

This user-friendly, practical manual guides church leaders through the basics of community assessment.

 

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Getting There from Here: Starting a Compassion Ministry in Your Church

This resource is helpful for pastors and church leaders that are interested in starting a compassion ministry at their church.

 

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Ministry Inventory Guide: Assess Your Church?s Ministry Capacity and Identity

The Ministry Inventory consists of ten areas of questions related to the congregation's outreach (including all forms of evangelism and service). The questions focus on local outreach, but do not exclude international missions.

 

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Becoming a Mission-Focused Church

Becoming a Mission-Focused Church


What does it take to become a mission-focused church—a church that “shares
God’s self-sacrificial love for the lost, lonely, and broken, and cultivates a commitment
toward outreach as an expression of worship”?

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Getting There from Here: Starting Compassion Ministry in Your Congregation

GETTING THERE FROM HERE: STARTING COMPASSION MINISTRY IN YOUR CONGREGATION
Heidi Unruh and Philip N. Olson
Enrichment Journal, Spring 2004, pp. 64-73


    Like many Christians, you long to make a difference in the world. You believe in God's plan to restore broken lives and rebuild troubled neighborhoods through local mission that blends evangelism, relief services, advocacy and community development. Whether you are a pastor, ministry staff, or lay member, you desire your church to become a vessel for the healing, transforming presence of Christ in your community.

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The Path from Faith to Action

 This article addresses how churches learn to do community ministry.

 

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A Historic Opportunity

A HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY

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Why Partner?

Why Partner?

Partnerships are risky. Partnerships take energy and time. It may not be easy to look
past the challenges of organizing your own congregation for ministry to see the potential
in collaborating with others. Nor is it always easy to adjust to a partnering agency’s different methods and priorities. Is the effort worth it?

Few churches can carry out effective holistic ministry without entering into some
form of partnership. This is true for seven practical reasons and three theological reasons. The attached document outlines all these reasons.

 

Biblical Principles for the Outreach Ministry of the Church

This document is for church leaders and laity new to the field of church-based transformational community ministry, who want to begin digging into the essential Biblical principles that undergird the work.

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Getting There from Here: Starting a Compassion Ministry in Your Church

This resource is helpful for pastors and church leaders that are interested in starting a compassion ministry at their church.

 

Read more
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Ministry Inventory Guide: Assess Your Church?s Ministry Capacity and Identity

The Ministry Inventory consists of ten areas of questions related to the congregation's outreach (including all forms of evangelism and service). The questions focus on local outreach, but do not exclude international missions.

 

Read more

Alphabet Soup for the Volunteer’s Soul

This collection of brief devotionals is designed to help volunteers grow spiritually through their volunteer experience.

 

Read more

Community Study: A Guide to Understanding Your Church’s Context for Ministry

This user-friendly, practical manual guides church leaders through the basics of community assessment.

 

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Ministry Opportunities Brainstorming Tool

This worksheet offers a group exercise that is ideal for church leaders who are just beginning to develop an outreach or community ministry in their congregation.

 

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