THE EQUIPPING CHURCH GUIDEBOOK

By Sue Mallory and Brad Smith

Zondervan/Softcover/$19.99

The Equipping Church Guidebook is a user-friendly guide containing practical suggestions, charts, checklists and discussion guides to use when building an equipping church. This book will assist senior pastors, elder boards, deacons, directors of equipping ministry, key lay staff and others responsible for building an equipping church. The Guidebook, formerly the popular Starter Kit for Mobilizing Ministry, has been rewritten, and published by Zondervan.

WHAT ARE THE FEATURES? 1. User-friendly blueprint for easy reference 2. Well-designed and customizable charts, forms and templates 3. Designed with key signposts to help track and measure progress

WHO WILL BENEFIT? 1. Senior Pastors 2. Elder Boards 3. Directors of Equipping Ministry (both paid and unpaid)

4. Equipping Teams

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THE EQUIPPING CHURCH – Serving Together to Transform Lives

By Sue Mallory

Zondervan/Hardcover/$21.99

The Equipping Church describes the benefits, structure, and culture of an equipping church and shows how your congregation can become one. This book is about limitless possibilities. What might your church look like if its members became vital, fully-empowered partners in ministry? How can you help them discover and release their full potential? How would their roles – and yours – change?

Unpacking insights and principles uncovered by Leadership Training Network, Mallory helps you customize an equipping system and culture in your church. You’ll proceed from preparation (what you need to know), to foundations (what you need to change), to construction (what you need to do). In the process, Mallory takes you inside the story of her own church, Brentwood Presbyterian, to observe the different stages of their trial-and-error journey and how it has transformed their approach to “doing church.” See how they dealt with various concerns that arose along the way, and meet men and women whose lives have been changed because Brentwood took the ministry road less traveled.

Each chapter includes a section of “Equipping Principles,” questions for discussion and reflection, and a summary of different equipping churches around the country. With the accompanying The Equipping Church Guidebook, this book will be a mile marker in your church — and the gateway to a more effective and biblical approach to ministry.

Sue Mallory is executive director of Leadership Training Network, a partner with Leadership Network. She developed the office of Lay Ministry at Brentwood Presbyterian Church and served as its full-time director for eight years, founded the Southern California Association for Lay Empowerment, and serves as adjunct faculty at Fuller Theological Seminary and Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. She is supporting author of several other Leadership Network publications.

An “equipping church” is a church where:

* pastors and leaders enable church members to share in ministry

* people’s gifts, talents and life callings are matched with areas of service

* ministry opportunities are recognized and developed

* the culture encourages the growth of a broad array of ministries

* a well-designed system addresses needs of every kind, both individual and corporate

* the pastor doesn’t have to be all things to all people

WHAT ARE THE FEATURES? 1. Clearly designed to portray what a successful equipping church embodies, from vision-casting to implementation

WHO WILL BENEFIT? 1. Senior Pastors 2. Elder Boards 3. Directors of Equipping Ministry (both paid and unpaid)

4. Equipping Teams

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