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When an Entire Church Values Recovery
Cost: Free Download
Date Published: 8/12/2008
The story at Christian Assembly church in Eagle Rock California shows what can happen when an entire church values recovery ministry. Senior Pastor, Mark Pickerill and leader Jim Cosby share with Warren Bird the journey that caused them to embrace the hope of grace and openness in every aspect of church.
LENGTH: 18:30
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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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Growth Insights from a Long-Time Recovery Ministry: An Interview with Jane Wolf
Cost: Free Download
Date Published: 3/6/2007
Jane Wolf, Pastor of Life Path Ministries at Salem (Oregon) Alliance Church, oversees one of the longest-running recovery ministries North America. Launched in 1991, it currently draws some 450 people in 33 recovery groups. Learn how their ministry has grown and how churches can apply the principles of careful growth that she describes.
LENGTH: 11:29
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Curriculum for Recovery Ministry: An Interview with Teresa McBean
Cost: Free Download
Date Published: 3/6/2007
Learn from Teresa McBean of NorthStar Ministry (part of Bon Air Baptist Church), Richmond, Virginia, about the many different kinds of recovery resources that are available to churches, where to get these resources, and how the curriculum used in her recovery ministry has needed to be adjusted and adapted over time. An interesting perspective from a church that is based entirely on recovery ministry.
LENGTH: 12:21
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Driving the Vision for Recovery Ministry
Cost: Free Download
Date Published: 2/8/2007
Two leaders (Miriam Mollering, Wes Gorman) at Canada's largest-attendance church -- Centre Street, Calgary -- discuss the many ways they keep the recovery ministry at their church up front and growing, from involving the pastoral staff to training recovery leaders from other churches.
LENGTH: 12:07
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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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New Directions in Recovery Ministry
Cost: Free Download
Date Published: 2/8/2007
Liz Swanson spent the last two years researching churches that put major emphasis on recovery ministry, visiting dozens and interviewing more than 200. In this interview she observes some of the major directions she has observed. She notes that in reality every Christian is in recovery.
LENGTH: 10:03
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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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Best of Both Worlds: Recovery Ministries Combining Attraction and Mission to Reach Home and Abroad
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 8/31/2009
Churches that are leading the way in healing
ministries are moving out with renewed leaders to
minister recovery principles and practices in prisons,
halfway houses, drug and family courts, homes for
recovering prostitutes and some of the most
devastated countries in the world. This paper will
examine this growing trend and strategy of recovery
ministries to attract new attenders to restorationrelated
groups and activities, and the move toward
mobilizing those groups to intentionally meet needs
in the community.
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Language Barrier: Recovery Ministries Search for the Words to Communicate Mission
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 10/3/2008
As leading churches nationwide are developing multifaceted
recovery ministries to address life-dominating
issues, a language barrier may be developing that could
hamper these vital ministries for people seeking healing
and restoration. Through this concept paper, listen in on
the conversation as innovative leaders in recovery
ministry:
• Wrestle with the questions regarding recovery
language,
• Search for an inclusive voice, and
• Forge ahead in the midst of their journey to create
places of grace and authenticity.
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The Whys Behind the Movement: The Significance of Recovery Ministry in Today's Church
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 2/21/2008
An increasing number of American churches are
diving headlong into a life-altering ministry-recovery
ministry-that is meeting the deepest needs of the most
deeply damaged in society and in our churches. Case
studies in this paper explore four motivators for
churches as they consider venturing into the choppy
waters of recovery, relapse and restoration.
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Clearing the Hurdles: Overcoming the Obstacles in Recovery Ministry
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 6/20/2007
Leading churches speak to three principal areas that
affect the success of a recovery ministry: the
sponsoring church, the recovery ministry itself and
the larger community. Obstacles exist in each of these
areas, such as stigma attached to the ministry, lack of
volunteer leaders and difficulty attaining community
backing. Churches successfully overcoming these
barriers are finding strategies that help them thrive in each circumstance.
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Growing a Recovery Ministry: Context-Sensitive Innovations and Christ-Centeredness Define Successful Programs
Cost: Free Download
Date Posted: 1/19/2007
Successful recovery ministries maintain reliance upon Christ and divine guidance as central to their continuation. Prayer – by the leadership, over the ministry and at every gathering – is the answer these churches give most often when asked how they developed. This paper shares the stories of several churches and ministries who have successfully gone through the process of growing a recovery ministry. Download this free resource to read these powerful stories.
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Moving Recovery Ministry Out Of The Shadows; Innovative Churches Learn How to Take Recovery Mainstream
Cost: free download
Date Posted: 5/22/2006
o There is a new breed of leaders around the country who are bringing programs that address a myriad of internal wounds and addictions into the mainstream of church life. This emphasis is known in most circles as recovery or restoration ministry. Whereas churches in the past might have allowed an Alcoholics Anonymous group to occupy a secluded space on a night when none of the “nice church people” would come around, these recovery-savvy churches are carving out a prominent time and place for people who are serious about tackling their addictions and other life-dominating issues. What is the church’s role in offering hope and healing to growing scores of people who are crippled internally by deep hurts, habits and hang-ups? This and other questions are explored in this concept paper that examines the unique journeys of some of the nation’s recovery ministry leaders.
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