Designing Effective Women's Ministries: Choosing, Planning, and Implementing the Right Programs for Your Church
Ebook
Overview
For nearly twenty-five years, Elmbrook Church in Waukesha, WI, has supported a variety of ministries by and for women. Today their program stands as a model. Yet, as the authors of Designing Effective Women's Ministries will tell you, it did not happen overnight, but through trial and error. In Designing Effective Women's Ministries, the authors share what worked for them and what didn't. they explain how to start where you are, with what you have, and how to do what God wants you to do. Designing Effective Women's Ministries included tips and techniques for establishing groups and programs that meet the needs of today's women. The book shows how to develop programs that are specifically tailored to your church and your community.
Contents
Prologue
Acknowledgments
Part I: BEGINNING A WOMEN’S MINISTRY
1. The Best Way to Begin Is to Begin
2. Start With What You’ve Got
3. Designing a Ministry Through Brainstorming
Perspective: Are You a Doer or a Dreamer?
4. Put It All Together
Part II: MEETING WOMEN WHERE THEY LIVE
5. Morning Break
Perspective: Commitment to the Same Faces
6. Moms and More
Perspective: Quiet Times in Noisy Times
7. Evening Edition
Perspective: Women Wearing Many Hats
8. The Widow’s Might
Part III: DEVELOPING YOUR LEADERS
9. The Coordinator’s Board
10. Looking for and Leading Your Leaders
11. Effective Leadership Retreats
Part IV: REACHING YOUR WORLD
12. Breakaway for Renewal
Perspective: Ask No Quarter
13. Reaching Out through Special Events
Perspective: Between Your Own Two Feet
14. Women on a Mission
Part V: ENERGIZING YOUR MINISTRY
15. Being Women of Prayer
Epilogue: Women Who Change Their World
Appendix 1: Caring for a Speaker
Appendix 2: Surveys and Forms
Product Details
- Title : Designing Effective Women's Ministries: Choosing, Planning, and Implementing the Right Programs for Your Church
- Authors:
- Briscoe, Jill
- McIntyre, Laurie A.
- Seversen, Beth
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publication Date: 2010
- ISBN: 9780310877240