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Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course Leader's Guide

Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course Leader's Guide

Sandy Jackson, Brian Jackson
The Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course Leader's Guide is an introductory course designed to equip new church leaders and renew current leaders in The United Methodist Church. It can be used with adults and youth and is the foundational course for other leadership training courses. This course covers the 3 three core categories of Lay Servant Ministries: Leading, Caring, and Communicating; it also emphasizes ministry in daily life and sharing faith stories. The plans in this Leader's Guide ar...
African Religion

African Religion

The Quarry of the Rock of Monotheism  
John Wesley Zwonunondiita Kurewa
Worldwide scholarship has established the fact that Africa is the cradle land of humanity. Dr. Kurewa promotes the theory that African Religion could very easily have been the proto-religion of humanity, and a religion from which other monotheistic religions, such as Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam have their roots. The author shifts the traditional African historical studies stance of looking at Africa from Egypt alone, and instead looks at Africa from inside Africa. Dr. Kur...
Charting a Course of Discipleship

Charting a Course of Discipleship

A Workbook on Christian Discipleship (Revised Edition)  
Jay Regennitter, Delia Halverson, Teresa Gilbert, ...
Is your congregation living up to its mission? After all, making disciples is what churches are supposed to do. So how do churches go about making disciples? What is a disciple, anyway? And how do congregations know whether they are actually helping people to grow in their faith? Charting a Course for Discipleship provides a step-by-step plan that will help any congregation design a disciple formation process that is effective for its particular context. It will help your church to: identif...
How We Preach

How We Preach

Preaching in the African Context  
Eben Kanukayi Nhiwatiwa
This book is the second of two volumes on Preaching in African Context. For both seasoned preachers and beginners, including students in seminaries, Bible colleges, and universities, this second volume explores how we preach and the practice of contextual preaching in Africa. The two volumes go hand-in-hand and Nhiwatiwa demonstrates that the principles need good practice to become contextual preaching, and our practice needs principles to ensure integrity. Read these volumes to see why preac...
Why We Preach

Why We Preach

Preaching in the African Context  
Eben Kanukayi Nhiwatiwa
This book is the first of two volumes on Preaching in the African Context. For both seasoned preachers and beginners, including students in seminaries, Bible colleges, and universities, this first volume explores why we preach and the principles of contextual preaching in Africa. Nhiwatiwa demonstrates that contextual preaching serves as the most appropriate way of communicating the gospel in Africa—it can connect with and engage the minds of people in effective ways. Read these volumes to se...
The Leadership Lab

The Leadership Lab

A Leadership Development Resource for Senior High Youth  
Hank Hilliard
Effective leadership doesn't just happen. If you're looking for a resource to help develop your young people's leadership skills, The Leadership Lab, a tested and proven resource, is just what you need. The Leadership Lab takes a holistic approach to leadership development. It keeps a balance between improving leadership and helping young people grow in their relationship with God and others. Through hands-on activities, lively discussions, and team building exercises, young people will lear...
Moving In Harmony

Moving In Harmony

An Updated Polity for the United Methodist Church in Africa  
Nday Bondo
In order to fully appreciate the good of the UMC polity, the people called United Methodists need to work together, moving in harmony, and using the same church processes. In this book, Rev. Bondo provides the most relevant and up-to-date information from The Book of Discipline 2008 to the African Methodist Church, so that it can join and move in harmony with the polity of The United Methodist Church worldwide.
The Time Is Now

The Time Is Now

Preparing Candidates for Baptismand Confirmation in the United Methodist Church  
Gift Machinga
With this guide on baptism and confirmation in The United Methodist Church, Rev. Dr. Gift Machinga provides an essential resource for the church in Africa. The book is intended to motivate pastors to consider the ministry of education and to guide pastors and lay members in preparing their people for baptism and confirmation.
African Pastor-Teachers

African Pastor-Teachers

A Brief History of United Methodist Evangelism in Zimbabwe 1901 - 1921  
John Wesley Zwonunondiita Kurewa
African Christians who believe the half-truth that Christianity in Africa is the product of European and American missionary work need this book. Dr. John Kurewa explores Methodist history in Africa, focusing on the early years of United Methodism in Zimbabwe (1890s-1920s). He reveals it was Africans who led the way in propagating the gospel. Missionaries strategized, but African preachers evangelized. So-called "native helpers" took the gospel to the rural areas and planted the churches, esp...
An African Pilgrimage on Evangelism

An African Pilgrimage on Evangelism

A Historical Study of the Various Approaches to Evangelism in Africa (100-2000CE)  
John Wesley Zwonunondiita Kurewa
How easily we forget that it was Africans who brought the gospel to Africa, not foreign missionaries! Evangelism has always been central to African Christianity, ever since Egyptians and Libyans returned home from Jerusalem following the day of Pentecost (Acts 2). In this brief history of the church in Africa, Dr. John Kurewa highlights the major approaches to evangelism that the church employed over the centuries, for better and for worse. Then, in historical context, Kurewa zeroes in on tho...