This complete guide to giving and stewardship sheds new light on solid financial resources, one of the 12 keys to building an effective church. Here is a practical plan for the growth and development of giving and stewardship in your congregation, complete with action worksheets that advance the progress of the plan over four years.

Since it was published in 1983, the first edition of the original Twelve Keys to an Effective Church has benefited thousands of congregations around the world. The thoroughly revised and updated Twelve Keys Leaders' Guide, designed to accompany Twelve Keys to an Effective Church, offers leaders an indispensable, step-by-step resource for creating and implementing their long-range plans. It clearly shows how to examine a church's strengths and move the congregation toward action, accomplishment, and achievement. This valuable guide thoroughly explains the basic principles of the planning process and gives helpful insights into the dynamics of memory, change, conflict, and hope in congregations. You will discover possibilities to build the momentum, deepen the resources, and advance the strengths of your congregation. This important resource can also be used to help build an effective, successful business, develop a strong, healthy non-profit grouping, advance an effective, healthy college or university, and create a strong, healthy family.

This wise and practical guide provides clear insight for both pastors and congregations on how to begin a healthy, productive new pastorate or make a fresh start in an ongoing ministry. Author Kennon L. Callahan, today's most sought-after church consultant, has conferred with thousands of pastors and congregations, helping them discover their strengths and gifts and showing them how to work together in service to their community and mission. Here he offers fresh suggestions on how pastors and congregations can ensure a solid future together, whether they are newly beginning or beginning again.

Kennon Callahan shares a new understanding of leadership, and helps missionary pastors grow their leadership by cultivating new understandings and practices in seven key areas. Callahan guides pastors and key leaders in building on their creativity and imagination in order to revitalize their local churches and advance their missions.

Create a small, strong congregation that is dedicated to advancing God's mission The twenty-first century is the century of small, strong congregations. More people will be drawn to small, strong congregations than any other kind of congregation. Yes, there are mega-congregations; Their number is increasing greatly. Nevertheless, across the planet, the vast majority of congregations will be small and strong, and the vast majority of people will be in these congregations. With uncommon wisdom Kennon L. Callahan--today's most noted church consultant--moves ahead of conventional thinking and in Small, Strong Congregations offers his unique vision of the church of the future. This important book chronicles the emergence of a vast number of congregations that are questioning the bigger-is-better notion in church membership. These congregations are deliberately small, active, and happy in their dedication to creating strong church communities that advance God's mission. Step by step, Kennon Callahan shows pastors and other church leaders how they can develop the values and specific qualities helpful to shape and strengthen their own small congregations.Written to be a hands-on guide, Small, Strong Congregations offers practical suggestions for creating mission and service, compassion and shepherding, community and belonging, self-reliance and self-sufficiency, worship and hope, teams and leaders, space and facilities, and giving and generosity. This wise resource is filled with illustrative examples that show clearly how myriad small churches have created solid, vigorous congregations.

"Preaching today", says Kennon Callahan," is less about law and more about grace. It is about inviting people to discover God's grace, perhaps for the first time, and touching their lives in a powerful, personal, helpful way." Callahan, who has helped tens of thousands of church leaders and pastors through his dynamic workshops and seminars, sees the sermon as a shared event for the pastor and the congregation who are gathered to discover the good news for this day and the week to come. He sees preaching as a sign of grace, compassion, community, and hope. Preaching Grace encourages pastors to develop the approach to preaching that matches with their unique gifts and strengths. Through focusing on these strengths, pastors will discover more fully their own personal preaching style and advance the sermons that will stir and inspire their congregations-to discover the grace of God, the compassion of Christ, and the healing hope of the Holy Spirit.

A practical guide to the crucial role of visiting in the life of a church--a role that has grown even more important in an age when so many do not regularly attAnd church services. Presented here are 14 different forms of visiting, to reach both within the church congregation and in the community at large.

This step-by-step guide to healthy habits of church finances will help church leaders focus their best creativity, leadership, and energy on advancing their mission. Written for committee members, key leaders, pastors, and staffs, this is a detailed account of budgeting and fund-raising, complete with charts and questionnaires.

An encouraging, helpful book that shares possibilities for living in peace. Discover ten helpful events. Discover wonderful persons in Eunice, Mrs. Perkins, Gene, Charles, Ken, Opal, Grandma Ida and Kate, Mom, Mimi, Aunt Bea, St. John's, Dorothy, Grand Children, Orville, and Ken and Julie. Discover peace. Live in grace and peace.

Bobby runs for his life. Marie and Jason celebrate. We hit a coral reef. Harold and Steve discover their gifts. Sweet Silence and Hilda Mae share. Julie is a wonderful gift. The anchor slips. The father runs. Dr. Politella teaches with grace. Dorothy lives. Gene and Bob find common ground. John and Mary discover hope. You will enjoy meeting these persons and learning from them. In Living in Grace, Kennon L. Callahan shares these persons and the events, learnings, and best practices for living that grow from them. Dr. Callahan does so with an encouraging, joyful spirit, deep wisdom, good humor, and profound insight. He writes, "I have personally found grace through many persons, experiences, and life learnings. So, good friend, here is a collection of twelve of these events. I'm confident that God uses a wonderful sense of humor and drama in helping me grow forward. And He's not through with me yet " You will discover possibilities for growing forward grace, compassion, peace, and hope in your own life. There is an emerging longing and yearning among us for a whole, healthy life. Living in Grace will help. Wherever we find grace, we find compassion, peace, and hope.

Guides church leaders through the process of clarifying and prioritizing their mission. Kennon Callahan demonstrates how to cultivate your mission with compassion and community, as well as prayer and scripture. This guide will make any congregation's mission become a reality by matching your church's facilities with its ministry needs.

In this indispensable companion volume to Twelve Keys to an Effective Church, Kennon Callahan offers a practical, step-by-step guide for the most productive long-range planning. This guide will help both pastors and church leaders assess the strengths and weaknesses of their churches in 12 areas -- ranging from specific mission objectives to solid financial resources -- and shows leaders how to determine which methods will work best to advance their church and move their congregations toward action, accomplishment, and success.

The Twelve Keys Bible Study offers a companion volume to the best-selling book, Twelve Keys to an Effective Church. The Bible Study helps readers put the Twelve Keys for strong healthy congregations in biblical perspective and gives clergy and church leaders biblical resources for each of the twelve keys. It includes reflections on the scriptures as well as suggestions and questions for study and conversation. This helpful resource can be used as a guide with individuals, groups, congregations, worship services and retreats.