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Inside the small church / Anthony G. Pappas, editor.

Contributor(s): Pappas, Anthony
Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvesting the learnings series: Publisher: [Bethesda, Md.] : Alban Institute, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: vi, 237 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1566992516Subject(s): Small churches -- Leadership | Small churches -- Management | Small churches -- MissionsBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Supporting small churches and their pastors / Sherry Walrath and Douglas Alan Walrath -- Understanding authority in small churches / Richard Griffin -- Five discoveries about small-town ministry / Lawrence W. Farris -- Ten ways to build a healthier congregation / Clay Smith -- Fifteen steps for leading a stable rural church off the plateau / Gary E. Farley -- The bivocational option / Stephen Norcross -- Four myths about bivocational pastoring / Anthony G. Pappas -- The small church pastor: tourist, missionary, or anthropologist? / Anthony G. Pappas -- Raising small-church self-esteem: taking the high road / Steve Burt and Hazel Roper -- Few members, many gifts / Loren B. Mead -- The advantages and disadvantages of being a smaller-membership church / Gary E. Farley -- A love letter to people in ordinary-sized churches / Caroline A. Westerhoff -- Because we are a small church, we can... / Melvin G. Williams -- Small churches: faithful remnants / Steven Burt --
Building up, breaking up, getting up / Anthony G. Pappas -- Building on the capacities of small-membership churches / Clay Smith -- Cooking on a limited budget: maximizing the smaller-church's ministry potential / John M. Koessler -- Gaining the rural advantage / Kenneth R. Marple -- Can a small church grow? / Carl S. Dudley -- Effective approaches to growth and stewardship in the small church / Perry Bell -- No church door is completely open: making inclusion work / Kenneth R. Marple -- Evangelism and tomorrow's small church / Anthony G. Pappas -- Developing standards for small-church mission evaluation / Anthony G. Pappas -- Rural remnant: a metaphor of mission for the rural church / John H. Bennett -- Ecumenical shared ministry: last resort of God's will / David Ray -- Becoming a thirty-mile church / Gary E. Farley -- Organizing for ministry and mission in Kentucky's rural churches / Bennett D. Poage -- Twelve places that need new churches / Gary E. Farley -- The challenges and opportunities social ministry brings to a small church / Douglas Alan Walrath New realities require new responses / Anthony G. Pappas.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West BV637.8 .I57 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902320775

Includes bibliographical references.

Supporting small churches and their pastors / Sherry Walrath and Douglas Alan Walrath -- Understanding authority in small churches / Richard Griffin -- Five discoveries about small-town ministry / Lawrence W. Farris -- Ten ways to build a healthier congregation / Clay Smith -- Fifteen steps for leading a stable rural church off the plateau / Gary E. Farley -- The bivocational option / Stephen Norcross -- Four myths about bivocational pastoring / Anthony G. Pappas -- The small church pastor: tourist, missionary, or anthropologist? / Anthony G. Pappas -- Raising small-church self-esteem: taking the high road / Steve Burt and Hazel Roper -- Few members, many gifts / Loren B. Mead -- The advantages and disadvantages of being a smaller-membership church / Gary E. Farley -- A love letter to people in ordinary-sized churches / Caroline A. Westerhoff -- Because we are a small church, we can... / Melvin G. Williams -- Small churches: faithful remnants / Steven Burt --

Building up, breaking up, getting up / Anthony G. Pappas -- Building on the capacities of small-membership churches / Clay Smith -- Cooking on a limited budget: maximizing the smaller-church's ministry potential / John M. Koessler -- Gaining the rural advantage / Kenneth R. Marple -- Can a small church grow? / Carl S. Dudley -- Effective approaches to growth and stewardship in the small church / Perry Bell -- No church door is completely open: making inclusion work / Kenneth R. Marple -- Evangelism and tomorrow's small church / Anthony G. Pappas -- Developing standards for small-church mission evaluation / Anthony G. Pappas -- Rural remnant: a metaphor of mission for the rural church / John H. Bennett -- Ecumenical shared ministry: last resort of God's will / David Ray -- Becoming a thirty-mile church / Gary E. Farley -- Organizing for ministry and mission in Kentucky's rural churches / Bennett D. Poage -- Twelve places that need new churches / Gary E. Farley -- The challenges and opportunities social ministry brings to a small church / Douglas Alan Walrath New realities require new responses / Anthony G. Pappas.

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