This book is a guide to getting your faith-based program from the dream stage to a working community program. Take advantage of the professional experience of grant writers Jeff and Jenai Morehead's years of experience in developing neighborhood and economic development programs. Discover how the federal grants process works. Find out how your church and faith based organization can work together. Discover the inside of grants contracts and what you have to do after you sign the contract to keep your grant funds flowing. Learn how to deal with your critics. Find out how long it will take to get your money and study our grant writing suggestions for winning grants

The personal testimonies in this book are inspiring and encouraging to the faith community that understands the unique call to operate outside of the four walls of the religious institution and into the neighborhoods where the heart of the community is.

1893. The Contents are divided into the following sections: God; Jesus Christ is God; How We Became Sinners; Redemption; The Extent of the Atonement; The Finished Work of Christ; Election; The Holy Ghost; Conditions of Salvation; The Forgiveness of Sins; Conversion; The Two Natures; Assurance; Sanctification. What It Is; Sanctification. Can It Be Attained?; Sanctification. Conditions; Sanctification. The Conditions (Consecration); Sanctification. Objections; Sanctification. The Fruits; Backsliding; Final Perseverance; Death and After; Hell; The Bible; Woman's Right to Preach; and Getting Men Saved.

1897. Canon Frederick Warren of Ely followed his aunt, Sister Amelia Warren, into the field of liturgics and produced such outstanding works as The Liturgy of the Ante-Nicene Church, The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church, an edition of The Bangor Antiphoner, and (a worthy companion to his aunt's production) The Sarum Missal in English. Contents: Traces of Liturgical Worship in the Old and New Testaments; Ante-Nicene Ritual; Ante-Nicene Liturgical Remains; and The Connection between the Liturgy and Ritual of the Jewish and Christian Churches.

In the 1800s, nuns moved west with the frontier, building hospitals and schools in immigrant communities. They provided aid during the Chicago fire, cared for orphans and prostitutes during the California Gold Rush, and brought professional nursing skills to field hospitals on both sides of the Civil War.
In the 1900s, nuns built the nation's largest private school and hospital systems, and brought the Catholic Church into the Civil Rights movement. As their numbers began to decline in the 1970s, many sisters were forced to take professional jobs as lawyers, probation workers, and hospital executives because their salaries were needed to support older nuns, many of whom lacked a pension system. Currently there are about 65,000 sisters in America, down from 204,000 in 1968. Their median age is sixty-nine.
Nuns became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Some nursed, some taught, and many created and managed new charitable organizations, including large hospitals and colleges. Sweeping in its scope and insight, Sisters reveals the spiritual wealth that these women invested in America.

Here is a book to challenge all separationist and accommodationist views of Christianity and the contemporary world. These pages will provoke a new level of discussion in the church and the academy alike.--Don El Saliers, Professor of Theology and Worship, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

A publication of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology in Steubenville, Ohio, "Letter & Spirit" is a new journal of Catholic biblical theology which seeks to foster a deeper conversation about the Bible. In light of the advancements of the last century in recapturing the historical and literary context of Scripture, "Letter & Spirit" embraces the challenge of the next century--linking the scientific study of Scripture to its liturgical sense in the Church's living tradition.

The word "liturgy" literally means "the work of the people" -- so the active participation of everyone in the congregation should be the goal of Christian worship. Designed to help you attain that sense of full partnership, "The Work Of The People" provides you with a full year's worth of eloquent resources for thoughtful, reverent services. It's a comprehensive collection of liturgical prayers and readings for 52 Sundays, with each week's material based on a common subject (Freedom, Hospitality, Peace, and Stewardship are just a few examples). Written in everyday language that connects them to our daily lives, the prayers are conceived for congregational reading (either responsively or in unison) -- and their thematic unity will lead to reflection and insight in addition to praise and celebration.
The components for each week include:
- call to worship
- invocation
- call to confession
- prayer of confession
- words of assurance
- Psalm reading
- offering sentences
- prayer of dedication
- benediction
- scripture references (as possible texts for homilies based on the theme)
John H. Will is a retired pastor in the United Church of Christ. In addition to serving churches in Texas, Indiana, and California, Will has been a missionary in Honduras and Foreign Service officer for the U.S. State Department. He is a graduate of Rice University and Eden Theological Seminary. Will and his wife Johanna live in Burleson, Texas.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

1853. With portrait, map of the country, illustrations, etc. Partial Contents: Parentage; Decision to be a Missionary; Smyrna; The Nestorians; Arrival at Oroomiah; Interest in the Mountains; Journey to Mesopotamia and Assyria; First Journey in the Mountains; Mr. Ainsworth; Third Visit to the Mountains; Journey of Messrs. Hinsdale and Mitchell; Journey to Oroomiah; Fourth Journey through the Mountains; Visit of Mr. Hinsdale to the Mountains; Fifth Visit to the Mountains; Visit to Badir Khan Bey; Commencement of the Storm; Courtesy Between Missionary Societies; and Plan to Return to America.

In this classic reissue, scholar, pastor, and author J. Philip Wogaman addresses "people who wonder whether Christian Faith makes sense in light of the sweeping changes of our age," changes that have created at the same time a pluralistic world, a technologically sophisticated world, a dangerous world, a world of great prosperity, and yet great suffering. What are we to make of this time we live in? Can the Christian faith really provide a stable foundation? Wogaman wrestles with these and other questions as he investigates the true meaning of a Christian faith with a positive understanding of religious pluralism and a rejection of fanaticism. He concludes that this faith is a "hopeful love" that proclaims the centrality of love against selfishness and the power of hope against despair.

This is the story of selfless, civic-minded individuals whose passion for historic preservation led them to undertake a monumental task. Unable to locate a precedent to guide them, they were forced to rely on their own ingenuity and technical skills. (Christian Religion)

The phrase "little flowers" has, in English, a vague aroma of sentiment and propaganda, and by virtue of the diminutive it has acquired a similar flavor even in Italian. Suppose this collection of tales has been called the "Franciscan Anthology," a title at once more exact and more majestic in its associations? Or suppose, somewhat facetiously, but still within its spirit, it had been known as the "Selected Miracles of Saint Francis and His Brethren?" The story as regards the English speaking world, might have been different. Illustrated.

The debate in many Reformed circles over worship music is only a small part of the larger question of Reformed liturgics. And dancing. All sides admit that the New Testament offers relatively little instruction on liturgy, and so the debate over the regulative principle continues with apparently little hope for resolution. In this study, Peter Leithart's key insight reveals a prominent scriptural example of a liturgy that interprets God's commands for worship in ways far more biblically grounded than traditional regulativism allows. King David's tabernacle worship becomes a rich story, not only in respect to liturgical wisdom, but also to the significance of Zion in the fulfillments of the Christian era.

Drawing from primary source documents such as diaries, letters, speeches, sermons, essays, and books from seventeenth-century colonial settlements in North America to today, this volume recovers the contributions of women to American religion. With its breadth and richness of sources it will be of interest and use to feminists, church historians, and students.

Dudley's work in Making the Small Church Effective (1978) broke new ground in understanding the dynamics of life in the small congregation. In this revised edition, Dudley revisits the small church, posing new questions reflective of the considerable changes that have swept over small churches in the last two decades. Among the most significant recent developments are shifts in institutional loyalty and individual's sense of identity in relation to larger groups and organizations. Dudley explores the key components that contribute to a small congregation's sense of unity and that motivate its members to more faithfully live out their faith.

The story of a Christian missionary who lived for thirteen years amongst the Ishmaelites of Moab, Edom, and the great peninsula of Arabia. Forder says, "My story is a simple record of ventures just as they occurred, a transcript of personal experiences and beliefs. It is sent forth to what I believe is a sympathetic public."

These creative, reassuring and beautiful texts can be sung to well-known hymns and songs in worship, groups, or at home. Many are written for use with children's songs, making them perfect for school, nursery, and camp singing.