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Family Ministry: A Comprehensive Guide by Diana R. Garland (IVP Academic) |
Garland’s volume is one of most exhaustive works for understanding historical perceptions of family ministry from an academic approach.
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Deep Justice in a Broken World: Helping Your Kids Serve Others and Right the Wrongs Around Them by Chap Clark and Kara Powell (Zondervan) |
Chap Clark, author of Hurt and a professor at Fuller Seminary, and Kara Powell, executive director of the Fuller Youth Institute, focus their research on helping church leaders more effectively reach the next generation.
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller (Thomas Nelson) |
Miller looks at life as a story, an important part of an effective family ministry. From his book we learn how to invite the next generation into the bigger story that God desires for them.
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Who Stole My Church? What to Do When the Church You Love Tries to Enter the 21st Century by Gordon Macdonald (Thomas Nelson) |
Based on a true story, this book looks at how to transition a church for the sake of a new generation, and emphasizes the need for intergenerational relationships.
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Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers that Turn Colleagues into Competitors by Patrick Lencioni (Jossey-Bass) |
Lencioni demonstrates how to have the right kind of meetings and break down “silos” that can exist between departments. His model helps gather age-group directors around the same table to work as a team.
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