Guidelines Small Membership Church: Serve with Significance in Your Context
The vast majority of United Methodist churches are small membership churches that can be and are vital places of ministry that matter. Most are situated in areas where there are people outside any faith community and have great potential for ministry. This Guideline will help you be an effective leader in your smaller church.
This is one of the twenty-six Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2017-2020 that cover church leadership areas including Church Council and Small Membership Church; the administrative areas of Finance and Trustees; and ministry areas focused on nurture, outreach, and witness including Worship, Evangelism, Stewardship, Christian Education, age-level ministries, Communications, and more.
Prepare leaders for their ministry roles.
Focuses on the work of the Small Membership Church Team.
Looks at the biblical and theological found the ministry area.
Provides a description of each area along with How-to information.
Bibliography/resource list and contact information for boards and agencies
Examples of forms and records used for each ministry area in each booklet.
Helps foster inclusiveness within the church and beyond.
Help new leaders understand their job, get organized, get started, and confidently lead.
Provide new and emerging leaders with the practical help they need to succeed in their ministry.
Help maintain consistent leadership from year to year.
Connect all the laity leaders with the spiritual dimensions of their ministry, while living their faith.
Product Details
- Title : Guidelines Small Membership Church: Serve with Significance in Your Context
- Publisher: Abingdon Press
- Publication Date: 2016
- ISBN: 9781501829949