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The Climate Hero Handbook is an interactive, full-color illustrated book designed for children ages 9 to 13. Fostering wonder and respect for the planet and all interconnected living things, this book shows children how to engage in nature and play a vital role in caring for the earth. Young people across the globe have taken courageous actions to step up, lead, and combat climate crisis; this book encourages and equips new ranks of Climate Heroes to tune in to the earth and respond to this call.Engaging by design and packed with activities that are suitable for kids, families, and classrooms, this book inspires thought, discussion, and positive action in regard to experiencing nature and protecting the planet. Young readers will appreciate the many mental, physical, and emotional benefits gained from their growing awareness of their world. This book offers a much-needed reparative space to work through feelings of deep concern about the environment and to respond in positive ways with concrete acts, community engagement, and advocacy.

The ministry of fundraising: turning hope and joy into tangible help. According to author David Heetland, helping people experience generosity always yields happy surprises.

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. While some things have changed, others haven't. This book tells the story of American Methodist women's efforts fight for women's rights, beginning with the Women's Christian Temperance Union and ending with the #MeToo movement.

A step-by-step guide for hearing and claiming God's calling for your life. For students, youth and young adult pastors, counselors, chaplains, and campus ministers to help students find clarity about how God has uniquely gifted them to participate in God's ongoing mission for the sake of the world. T

El mensaje que Philip Wingeier-Rayo presenta en este libro es crucial. La evangelización va más allá de salvar almas y crecer la congregación. La evangelización es la manera en que la iglesia participa en la misión de Dios, el Dios que busca reconciliar al mundo consigo mismo.

Written in French, this book is for United Methodists in the Democratic Republic of Congo written by an author who grew up in that context.

The purpose of this bilingual edition is to connect John Wesley with the two main reformers, Luther and Calvin, exploring what was incorporated and rejected in each of them by Wesley.

This book helps Christians begin to both discuss and address political issues without the partisanship and tribalism that marks our discourse. Basing the conversation on shared theological and ecclesiastical commitments can provide a new means to approach divisive issues.

Richly illustrated with prayers, hymns, and reflective writings from John, Charles, and Susanna Wesley, this book looks at the roots, impact, and trajectories of early Methodist spirituality, hoping that this exploration will help us chart new a course for the "people called Methodist" as we sail the rough seas of our time.

Journal your way through a 12-week Christian leader intensive.

Where would we be without the truth telling of Moses, Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr.- and you? The choice is clear: truth, justice, and freedom, or lies, injustice, and bondage? The good life and a just society depend on truth telling- but are we more comfortable with lies and fake news?

Early Methodism as seen by its adversaries and detractors. This book examines eighteenth-century pamphlet attacks on early Methodism, which came from all sides-the episcopacy, clergy, other Christian groups, universities, Wesley's ex-preachers, ex-Methodist laity, the Calvinist branch of Methodism, and the secular community.

If it doesn't happen on Sunday, it doesn't happen. A down-to-earth, practical introduction to the ins and outs of preaching for lay preachers, bivocational and local pastors, and others newly arrived in the pulpit.

United Methodist Scholars Writing from Their Global Contexts. As the United Methodist Church continues to live into its global nature, this book, written by scholars from their own contexts, will help develop deeper global sensibilities as it tells the stories of Annual Conferences throughout the world.

Mission: Conversation, Credibility, Connection. This book advocates for a new understanding of mission, one that connects it to the very heart of what it means to live the Christian faith in its fullness as we experience and share the Good News.

A complete guide to church finance and stewardship for congregations of all sizes

Written especially for Christian mental health professionals and students, counselors, therapists, psychologists, and pastors, the author lays out a framework and shows why issues related to violence and abuse continue to plague our society. The goal of care is not merely to help victims survive but move on to healing and wholeness.

Join the movement and go and make disciples in an ever-changing world.

Let us remember that Jesus was an immigrant. Topics include: (1) war, poverty, or famine and displacement; (2) immigration and international migration; (3) marginalized communities; and (4) spiritual and personal displacement.

How American Methodists have responded to sexual change since World War II.

Lead with cultural intelligence as you minister to God's diverse peoples.

To know the story of Nathan Bangs is to understand American Methodism between the death of Francis Asbury and the Civil War.

Preparing leaders for an interfaith world, colleges strive to educate students for leadership in communities, businesses, churches, governments, and the academy, and they must also prepare them for an increasingly religiously pluralistic world by offering opportunities for interfaith cooperation.

A convenient, reliable guide to United Methodist polity questions.

Move mission beyond "us and them" to "all of us together."

"...unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see."

Written especially for Licensing School and United Methodist Course of Study students, this book will see pastors through those early days of ministry.Includes: Your First Appointment, First Worship Service, First Sermon, Clergy Income Tax, Moving Expenses, Fees with Weddings and Funerals, Family Pet at Parsonage, Hospital Ministry, Your Predecessor, Your Community, Deaths and Funerals, Reports and Salary Issues, Disliked by a Member, Musical Differences, Brief "Tricks of the Trade", Basics of Leadership, Nominations and Leadership Development. Plus much more!

An exploration into the meaning of God's call to ministry and the ways The United Methodist Church offers to live out that call