Help Overcoming Painful Experiences (H.O.P.E.) is a Bible-based, 501(c)(3) non profit organization. Our mission is to provide a safe place to work through the emotional issues that hinder us from fully embracing God, others and life with enthusiasm. Our vision is to help people of all ages overcome their emotional pain and go on to experience a life transformation through our care, support, encouragement and the hope in Jesus Christ. Ultimately, our purpose is to set people free from their emotional bondage so they can live the fulfilled, victorious life God intended and designed them to live.

To accomplish our mission, vision and purpose, we developed a small group based, three level model of transformation. During our program (which consists of two books, Doorway to H.O.P.E. and Names of H.O.P.E.), our members are paired with a Spiritual and Emotional Coach (SPEe. "The Spiritual and Emotional Coach's Guide" was written to prepare and empower our SPECs for service by providing them with the information and tools necessary to have a life changing impact in this crucial role.

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A look inside the Lebanon Soup Kitchen reveals the miracles God works in the lives of the servers and the served. They find new meaning in life and faith in humanity by volunteering to help, or by accepting a free meal. Material boundaries disappear in the compassion for physical, emotional and spiritual needs. People come searching for acceptance of who they are and validation of their value as a human. As they share their stories, tears are shed in both heart-breaking and joy-filled accounts. It is in the bare human needs where God works in the smallest detail to bring a light of hope. A town of 13,000 reaches out three nights a week to serve restaurant-style baked chicken, Mexican casserole or German meatloaf in a safe, friendly atmosphere. Volunteers, the homeless, the working poor and the disabled come together for more than a meal, more than take-home food and more than hand-me-down clothes; the real thing they find is connection with a caring community.

Ted Haggard presents a successful and tested model for a small group ministry here that can be implemented by a church of any size. By enabling members to embrace and capitalize on their own unique abilities, the diverse groups create an environment where people meet mentors that can disciple and guide them. This need-and interest based approach redefines the model for powerful church growth.

Stewardship: The Proven Path: Fund-raising Principles for Church Capital Campaigns is the first book by the national fund raising specialist James D. Klote. After years of educating churches one at a time, he felt called to put his experience and educational information into an easy to read, simple to follow format. He wants churches to achieve their goals in mission in ministry This inside look at the complexities of a Capital Campaign offers the unique perspective of his 20 years of experience with churches. The anecdotes throughout the book highlight the lessons he has learned along the way so you don't have to learn them. This easy to understand description of his practical and straightforward approach to a Capital Campaign will make you wonder why it is not the most common approach to fund raising.He describes in detail the process of conducting the campaign, complete with sample campaign prayers. However, he offers a warning to not attempt a campaign on your own if you have needs greater than one times your annual giving. Outlined are the most common mistakes made by churches attempting campaigns on their own and those made by part-time fund raising consulting firms.You will be convinced that there is more to a Capital Campaign than you might imagine and the guidance of a full time consultant is the key to Capital Campaign success.

The Author's Account Of His Travels To Monasteries Of The Mediterranean And Mid-East Area, Including Egypt, Jerusalem, Athos As Well As Details Of Native People, Their Beliefs.

There is so much forgotten because we don't remember to record our heritage. Greater Holy Temple Church of God in Christ is a stellar example of an urban church surviving and thriving in the midst of economic, political, social, and cultural change spanning from 1925 to the present. The earliest members risked moving from the familiar agrarian society of the South to the unknown urban environment of the North sixty years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Over eight decades, this haven for hundreds of migrants from the South and their descendents have been led by three visionary pastors: Bishop Eleazar Lenox, Elder James E. Lenox, and now Pastor Lamont Lenox. The members' stories are ones of faith, courage, perseverance, love, and devotion to God, family, and each other. In this book, Dr. Mary F. Lenox identifies, records and places in context the growth and development of this phenomenal spiritual center known as Greater Holy Temple Church of God in Christ, and to celebrate its magnificent history with a view of its promising future.

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Discusses the current crisis of Christian community and offers timely, helpful insights based on 1 Corinthians

Bixby discusses the ways in which churches can restructure themselves and work through issues that are causing stagnation, early dismissal of pastors, and other conflicts that detract from the mission and vision of the church. Challenging the Church Monster suggests new ways for churches to function so that mission and ministry can once again become priorities, and people can begin to feel their time and energy are being used for something other than adding fuel to the fire of conflict within the congregation.

"An old dog (galu wamkota) does not dig for nothing," so the proverb says. The two authors, one from America (with 45 years in Zambia); the other from Zambia, explore the encounter of the Christian faith with African Traditional Religion, treating concept(s) of God, the world of the spirits, of powers and witchcraft, and then how the Bible can be translated into the language of Zambia and Malawi taking into account both changes in concepts of translation and in society

Voices In the Wilderness is a devotional guide consisting of 100 true stories from God's servants who are taking the Gospel to the unreached in the uttermost ends of the earth. Because they live in remote places far from the eye of the media, their voices often go unheard. We guarantee that the stories in this collection will stir your heart to pray, challenge your spirit to adopt a higher standard of Christian living, and more your soul to glorify God

At a time when secularism is put forward as the answer to religious fundamentalism and violence, Secularisms offers a powerful, multivoiced critique of the narrative equating secularism with modernity, reason, freedom, peace, and progress. Bringing together essays by scholars based in religious studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, science studies, anthropology, and political science, this volume challenges the binary conception of "conservative" religion versus "progressive" secularism. With essays addressing secularism in India, Iran, Turkey, Great Britain, China, and the United States, this collection crucially complicates the dominant narrative by showing that secularism is multifaceted. How secularism is lived and experienced varies with its national, regional, and religious context. The essays explore local secularisms in relation to religious traditions ranging from Islam to Judaism, Hinduism to Christianity. Several contributors explicitly take up the way feminism has been implicated in the dominant secularization story. Ultimately, by dislodging secularism's connection to the single (and singular) progress narrative, this volume seeks to open spaces for other possible narratives about both secularism and religion-as well as for other possible ways of inhabiting the contemporary world. Contributors: Robert J. Baird, Andrew Davison, Tracy Fessenden, Janet R. Jakobsen, Laura Levitt, Molly McGarry, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Taha Parla, Geeta Patel, Ann Pellegrini, Tyler Roberts, Ranu Samantrai, Banu Subramaniam, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Angela Zito

With Islam making headway in winning believers, Christians in an ever-increasing number are deeply involved in study to find out why they believe the things they do. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Like detectives investigating to find the "facts," they are finding many of their traditional beliefs inconsistent with what the Bible reveals. Does one actually have a soul-and is it immortal? What does the Bible reveal? What does history have to say? These are just a few of the questions being asked among many more spoken on in this book. Millions of Christians agree that their end-time fate rests upon the beliefs they have. Their response has been to study the Bible. This book, while not the last word, attempts to bring out the basis for its conclusions. It is a book that will help the ordinary student of the Bible who sits in the pews of a church every Sunday to develop a deeper understanding of their beliefs. What is written in this book is presented in a strong enough way to justify its acceptance, yet in so doing does not discredit those who can't accept it for whatever reason. You Decide.

This is the first book by a Malawian woman theologian. First released in 1997 it won an honorable mention in the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1998 and is now updated here with a new introduction by the author. The study traces the struggles and contribution of Chewa women to the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. Amongst the topics are female mediumships in traditional religion, post-missionary developments in Chigwirizano, womens attempts to achieve some public manifestation of their personal relatioship to God in open ministry, and the current women's organisation in Nkhoma Synod. Dr. Isabel Apawo Phiri is in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Malawi.

The author is a committed Christian, a member of the Chapel of the Resurrection in Nigeria. He was born into a pagan home, his parents worshipping the gods of ogun and osanyin. His grandmother was a priestess of the osanyin deity and his mother inherited her shrine. As a boy he was taken to an ifa preist. From early in his youth and his time as a student at the University of Ibadan, he has been a committed Christian, and this is his account of the Christian story of his time as a student and member of faculty at the University. He was the first President of Ibadan Varsity Christian Union, and an active member of the Chapel. Rather than an autobiography, this is a history of the Christian faith at the University of Ibadan. Kayode Adesogan Head of the Department of Chemical Sciences at Olabisi Onabanjao University, Ogun State; and is the retired Professor of Chemistry at the University of Ibadan.

Forty years ago, Toolan composed the words and music of the famous hymn I Am the Bread of Life, performed in 25 languages worldwide. Today, Toolan is one of the most respected writers of religious hymns in the world; the story behind her work sparks creativity in other artists and musicians. (Motivation)