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Leadership Loneliness: How Pastors Deal with Times They Feel All Alone
Cost: Free Download
Date Published: 6/25/2008
Loneliness is a painful and familiar emotion that many pastors experience. Dr. Sam Chand’s unique position as a consultant to pastors has allowed him to have several authentic conversations about lonely times leaders have gone through and how they have dealt with those feelings. He explains where different types of loneliness can come from, what leaders should expect, and healthy coping mechanisms that can alleviate some of the loneliness they feel.
LENGTH: 23:57
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Launching Satellite Campuses with a Community-Minded Focus
Cost: Free Download
Date Published: 8/21/2007
LifeBridge Christian Church of Longmont, CO knows all about impacting their community as an externally-focused church. Leadership Network asked the hard questions about being missionally intentional in adding churches to neighboring communities and found out how this church has made externally-focused and community-friendly the path to successfully adding new satellite campuses.
LENGTH: 10:01
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Kenny Brown: Lessons Learned in Multi-Site
Cost: Free Download
Date Published: 3/8/2007
Kenny Brown of Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, NC, talks about keeping the DNA of the church as new venues and satellite campuses have been added. Kenny also shares how the church has grown internally in the middle of greater than 50% staff turnover over the last few years.
LENGTH: 6:46
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John Handy: Using God's Gift of Creativity to Become Innovative
Cost: Free Download
Date Published: 3/8/2007
John Handy, former Senior VP for Mattel, talks with Leadership Network about creativity and, in particular, innovation in churches. Having worked in one of the most creative, innovative and dynamic types of jobs, John gives practical illustration and more than enough just cause for churches to change their paradigms and embrace innovation.
LENGTH: 12:07
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Omar Reyes: Creative Partnerships for Outreach with Externally Focused Churches
Cost: Free Download
Date Published: 3/8/2007
Omar Reyes, development pastor at Northwood Church in Keller, TX, has helped mobilize the 2,000+ members into service within their communities. Omar shares practical steps on how to transform a church into being externally focused with a strong sense of outreach and innovation.
LENGTH: 10:47
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Growing as a Leader by Increasing Your Pain Threshold: An Interview with Sam Chand
Cost: Free Download
Date Published: 2/8/2007
All leaders experience pain, but healthy leaders find appropriate ways to increase their pain threshold. Doing so helps them grow as a leader to new levels, enabling them to take their churches and ministries to new levels as well. Failure to deal with their pain leads to a “leadership leprosy” in which they, like someone with leprosy, do harm to themselves or those around them because of their inability to deal with pain. Author and pastoral consultant Sam Chand (www.samchand.com) offers many practical ideas in this fast-moving podcast.
LENGTH: 23:45
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The Externally Focused Quest: Becoming the Best Church for the Community
by Eric Swanson and Rick Rusaw
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Cost: SRP $24.95
Date Published: 3/29/2010
A practical approach for leaders to guide their congregations to become more externally focused, The Externally Focused Quest is designed for church leaders who want to transform their churches to become less internally focused and more oriented to the world around them. The book includes the clear guidelines on the ten changes congregations must adopt to become truly outwardly focused. This book is not about getting all churches to have an annual day of community service as a tactic but changing the core of who they are and how they see themselves as a part of their community.
Also from the authors: The Externally Focused Church and Living a Life on Loan
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Servolution: Starting a Church Revolution through Serving
by Dino Rizzo
Publisher: Zondervan
Cost: SRP $16.99
Date Published: 5/1/2009
“Servolution is a must-read. It is inspirational. It is practical. And it has the potential to revolutionize your life.”
Mark Batterson —Lead Pastor, National Community Church
A movement is rumbling through the body of Christ—a revolutionary army of people giving hope to a hurting world through practical, personal acts of service.
In Servolution, Dino Rizzo shares the story of his relentless pursuit of ways to bless the lost, poor, and hurting people of his community in Jesus’ name. You’ll be amazed and inspired by the incredible ways God has used Healing Place Church to meet the needs of thousands of people. Each chapter includes practical suggestions and resources for use in any church.
Be encouraged by the testimony of how God’s Spirit can use a simple passion to serve to revolutionize your approach to ministry. Wherever you are and whatever your gifts, you can play a vital role in this revolution through serving.
Start your Servolution at www.servolution.org
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Innovation 2007
Connecting Innovators to Multiply
Publisher: Leadership Network
Cost: SOLD OUT
Date Published: 1/23/2007
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This 64-page glossy book with 104 diagrams and charts, 10 in-depth profiles of compelling trends and literally hundreds of facts and examples, is the single biggest compilation of ideas and insights about North American churches ever undertaken by Leadership Network. The project presents a unique catalog and analysis of today’s most promising church innovations.
Innovation 2007 is divided into four primary sections:
Snapshots ("Why churches need innovation") reports on the huge societal needs and challenges to which the church must respond. Quick, at-a-glance statistics and summaries reveal, for example, startling facts on poverty, AIDS and literacy—as well as telling trends in church attendance, giving and pastors’ use of their time.
Discoveries ("How churches use innovation") covers 10 crucial approaches to ministry that are extending the reach and changing the face of today’s church. Topics range from churches that are creatively addressing community healthcare to significant church-based recovery ministries. In each case, Innovation 2007 explores the hows, the whys and newly emerging models of ministry.
Commentary ("In-depth perspectives on innovative trends") analyzes two particularly significant trends in even greater detail. "Inside the American Megachurch," by Warren Bird and Scott Thumma (of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research), shows how megachurches differ from the picture assumed by many stereotypes. "What to Do with Talented People," by Robert Lewis (pastor-at-large of Little Rock’s Fellowship Bible Church and founder of Men’s Fraternity) discusses how an innovative "catch-and-release" approach to ministry can boost a church’s impact in a local community.
Resources ("Strategic readings about leading innovations") presents a host of materials readers can use to further their understanding of high priority topics. Coverage ranges from Leadership Network’s recent "Salary and Economic Outlook," to overviews of some 20 books and 39 helpful online resources.
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The Externally Focused Church
by Rick Rusaw and Eric Swanson
Publisher: Group Publishing
Cost: SRP $17.99
Date Published: 6/1/2004
Learn from churches that have made serving their communities a priority with dramatic results. Your church can be a firm pillar in your community because of the unwavering truth and love of its members.
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The Externally Focused Life
by Rick Rusaw and Eric Swanson
Publisher: Group
Cost: SRP $15.99
Date Published: N/A
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Leading Outside the Walls: How Externally Focused Churches Engage and Grow Ministry Leaders
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 7/1/2009
Leadership Network recently surveyed 32 divisional
leaders of influential externally focused ministries
around the country and found that they have
implemented leadership structures in a variety of
ways. This report examines why churches specifically
assign a leadership role to externally focused ministry,
how they find those leaders, what these leaders face,
how they build teams and sustain themselves.
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Missional Households: Externally Focused Churches Discover the Value of Families that Serve
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 2/16/2009
From parent/child mission trips to preschoolers
packing lunches for the homeless, externally focused
churches are designing service projects that focus on
family participation. Making a difference and
influencing the next generation towards compassion
are just two of the many reasons why. A recent study
reveals that it's actually what families want from their
church: more ways to serve!
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Creating New Opportunities for Older Adults to Serve; 50+ Age Adults Reaching Outside the Walls of the Church
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 9/10/2007
Across the nation, both secular organizations and
faith-based communities are recognizing the
invaluable resource resident in older adults. A
number of leading churches in older adult ministry
are finding creative ways of engaging seniors in
ministry and encouraging them to use their time and
resources for Kingdom expansion.
Not ready to download it? Click here to read an excerpt
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Going Glocal: Externally Focused Churches Engage in both Global and Local Missions
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 8/27/2007
Have you heard the new buzz word in missions?
Glocal: it's the combination of local and global
missions into one. While the word glocalization has
been around in business vernacular since the 1990s,
churches are now adopting the term as well as the
concept that what they do across the street and around
can works together to grow the Kingdom of God.
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Externally Focused Small Groups: How Churches are Re-engineering Their Small Groups for Community Service
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 6/14/2007
How do churches effectively increase the level of
community service without detracting from the
internal strength of the church or competing with
other programs? Re-engineering small groups to serve
as well as study together is one of the more popular
answers to this dilemma of staying internally strong
while being externally focused.
Not ready to download it? Click here to read and excerpt
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Strategies for Investing in Your Community: How Externally Focused Churches are Leveraging Their Impact
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 5/29/2007
Externally focused churches take the resources they have and pour them out into the community. But they don’t pour out resources carelessly because church staff time, volunteers and dollar resources are limited. Churches are constantly weighing the risks and rewards of community ministry and must invest prayerfully, strategically, and compassionately—making wise plans that yield results.
Not ready to download it yet? Click here to read an excerpt
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How Externally Focused Churches Minister to Children: The Power of Serving Kids in Your Community
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 2/20/2007
Externally focused churches seek to be salt and light in their communities, showing the good news of Jesus Christ through good deeds and good will. Church leaders and volunteers serving children in their communities find it to be one of the most rewarding as well as challenging ways to extend God’s grace beyond the walls of their church.
Not ready to download it? Click here to read an excerpt
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Church to Church Collaborations on the Rise
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 12/7/2006
Community service activities are becoming increasingly important to many church congregations. According to the latest Hartford Institute for Religion Research national survey of U.S. faith communities, interfaith activity among faith communities has more than tripled since 2000. A survey by Leadership Network revealed that food programs and emergency assistance topped the list of opportunities for churches wanting to make a difference outside their own walls. These churches have partnered on everything from building projects, to health care ministries. Their stories and the principles that make collaboration effective are revealed in this paper.
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Making Good Ideas Happen: How to Help Your People Unleash Their Best Innovations
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 9/22/2006
From ideas to action, often the best way to get something done is to empower the person who had the idea in the first place. Read stories from these churches who are flipping the paradigm of leadership and equipping lay leaders to launch new ministries. A blanket ministry, a ministry to pregnant women, and a trip to summer camp for inner city children are just a few of the many fledglings which developed into full blown ministries.
Not ready to download it? Click here to read an excerpt
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Six Catalytic Service Approaches: Taking First Steps through Great Days of Service
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 8/3/2006
Externally Focused churches want less talk and more action outside the walls. Planning large service events can serve as a catalyst for changing church culture from internal to external. Even a spontaneous street clean-up can lead to engaged servants. This paper illustrates six different approaches to service by churches reaching out to their communities in full force.
Not ready to download it? Click here to read an excerpt
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Transforming Volunteers from Social Workers to Kingdom Laborers: Tapping into America's All-Time High Volunteerism
Cost: free download
Date Posted: 2/20/2006
What does this interest in community service mean for church ministry leaders? Finding purpose in life through serving others is no longer reserved for the faithful churchgoer or the social activist of the neighborhood. As people are looking for outlets to serve, they may see church community-based projects as a viable option of engagement. This paper outlines six critical elements that every individual needs to become properly equipped as a volunteer, resulting in the attitude shift from being a mere worker to a laborer for the Kingdom.
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99 Innovations: Creative Ideas and Resources to Engage 100 Percent of Your Church in Externally Focused Service
Cost: free download
Date Posted: 7/12/2005
In this concept paper, eighteen different churches offer insight into their extraordinary methods of serving. Alexandra McNabb compiled 99 successful ideas from churches within Leadership Network's Externally Focused Churches Leadership Community to help get your ministry off the ground, or add variety to an existing ministry
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The Urban Plunge: A First-Person Taste of Inner-City Renewal
Cost: free download
Date Posted: 7/1/2005
Gain first hand knowledge of the Urban Plunge experience, headed by Pastor Eli Morris’s team from Hope Presbyterian Church of Cordova, a suburb of Memphis TN. This concept paper includes a first-person narrative of the experience, sample itinerary, participant list of “Things to Know,” sample volunteer liability waiver, list of partnership ministries and websites, and recommended reading list.
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Widening the Funnel in Externally Focused Churches; Good Deeds Build Good Will, Becoming a Catalyst for Good News
Cost: free download
Date Posted: 2/14/2005
Many churches use a funnel model to describe their member-development process as an externally focused church. The top of the funnel represents events that serve as wonderful introductions to serving. These simple activities take little commitment or screening, and they expose the volunteer to a need in the community.
As volunteers step through the funnel, they are pulled into tasks of creater commitment, personal growth and deeper relationships. Often a lot of effort is put into creating and executing a successful large event, like a community carnival, but if there is not an intentionality to reconnect those volunteers to other areas of service and passion, they could be lost. This paper continues with ideas of how to widen that funnel to move from good deeds to good news.
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Ten Paradigm Shifts: How Churches Are Impacting Their Communities with the Good Deeds and Good News of the Gospel
Cost: free download
Date Posted: 3/9/2004
From building walls to building bridges . . . measuring attendance to measuring impact . . . from fellowship to functional unity, this concept paper outlines ten paradigm shifts that churches are experiencing as they engage their communities with the good news and good deeds of Jesus.
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Churches Moving Into the Community: Creating Capacity and Increasing Velocity through Leadership Communities
Cost: free download
Date Posted: 2/19/2004
An overview of twelve pioneering churches in the externally focused ministry movement
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