A memoir from the hard-living rock musician and producer, who survived prolonged drug addiction--twenty-two years of chronic heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse--before cleaning up, straightening out, and finding new reasons to live.
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A memoir from the hard-living rock musician and producer, who survived prolonged drug addiction--twenty-two years of chronic heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse--before cleaning up, straightening out, and finding new reasons to live.
Ordained ministry, says Willimon, is a gift of God to the church - but that doesn't mean that it is easy. Always a difficult vocation, changes in society and the church in recent years have made the ordained life all the more complex and challenging.
Examines the roles of the pastor. Focuses on the pastor as preacher, counselor, teacher, interpreter of scripture, evangelist, prophet, leader, and role model.
Music ministry in the Christian tradition engages people in the process of growth, both in regard to their musicianship and in their wider formation as human beings and disciples of Christ. This document focuses on the closely related areas of music education and human formation…
The purpose of this project is to develop a strategy for construction-based local missions through multi-denominational cooperation in Viburnum, Missouri. The project involves developing and applying a clear ministry strategy and job descriptions for key positions in the leaders…
The thesis of this project was based on the premise that the members and attendees of Park Chapel Christian Church in Greenfield, Indiana, do not practice a regular rhythm of service in the community. The project involved twelve sessions of teaching delivered in a hybrid model o…
This project addressed the problem of pastoral burnout. Pastors (n = 21) experienced a burnout training in the form of an intensive two-day conference including seven sessions, eleven resources pertaining to stress and burnout, and four follow-up sessions. Participants completed…
The project director set out to design a strategy for membership accountability at Water’s Edge Church in Virginia Beach, VA. The project reflects the process of research and development that went into the strategy, along with the steps taken to prepare various groups within the…
The purpose of this project was to develop and implement a training manual for aspiring elders at Liberty Baptist Church of Dalhart, Texas. Chapter 1 explains the ministerial context of Liberty Baptist Church and the need for the development of an elder training plan. Chapter 2 …
This servant-leadership project involves cultivating a Pastor-Deacon Ministry anchored in biblical manhood and womanhood at Monterey Baptist Church in Batavia, Ohio. Chapter 1 offers the background for Monterey Baptist Church by presenting the need for cultivating a Pastor-Deaco…
The purpose of this project was to train leaders at Community Bible Church in Vallejo, California, to revitalize ministries for the building up of the church to the glory of Christ. Chapter 1 describes the project’s ministry context, the rationale for its implementation, and the…
In the summer of 2020, The Wild Goose Meeting House, a café in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, crafted a series of conversations on racial justice called “The Goose Talks.” Over the course of twelve weeks, the café hosted sixteen events in order to engage the local communit…
Grace Lutheran Ministries in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, is a larger LCMS church in the Greater Milwaukee area. Grace is organized around six areas of ministry in order to reach as many people as possible; this includes a school ministry that serves over 150 separate families. T…
José W. PimentelThe Iglesia de Dios Comunidad de Esperanza in Cleveland, Tennessee is a Hispanic Pentecostal Church composed mainly of first-generation Spanish-speaking congregants. The congregation is an ethnically diverse Hispanic group represented by Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, …
Recent data regarding the faith of young adults in America continues to reveal that young people are disaffiliating from the Church at faster rates and in greater numbers. In light of this, the Church has consistently called for a New Evangelization, beginning with Pope Saint Jo…
The International Theological Commission’s report, From the Diakonia of Christ to the Diakonia of the Apostles (2002), examines the history of deacons and deaconesses from apostolic times to the present, and the theology of the diaconate from the Scholastic period to the Second …
The purpose of this study is to equip church teachers experiencing difficulties to train the next generation leaders in postmodern era through the education of Christian epistemology. In the current project, both qualitative and quantitative methods had been applied to the proje…