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Social Media Ministry

This very short article provides four specific examples of how social media can be used as...

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A Change of Pastors... and How it Affects Change in the Congregation

This resource frames clergy transitions as a period with potential to strengthen relationships...

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Leading Missional Change: Move Your Congregation from Resistant to Re-Energized

This book provides insight on why congregations don't want to change, how to utilize trust to...

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Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Creating Radical Change in a Community Called Glide

Told by its two founders, this book recalls stories from Glide Memorial, a United Methodist...

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Story & Narrative | The Commons Social Change Library

This online library collection supports congregational leaders doing community ministry by...

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Choosing Change: How to Motivate Churches to Face the Future

This book will help congregational leaders move their churches towards change through...

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Reframing guidelines: A step-by-step approach to building a narrative change campaign

This online toolkit, published for the project Reframe the Debate: New Migration Narratives...

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Smart Compassion: How to Stop "Doing Outreach" and Start Making Change

This guide offers congregations a relationship-rich model for community ministry that can...

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Memories, Hopes, and Conversations: Appreciative Inquiry, Missional Engagement, and...

This resource details the impact of Appreciative Inquiry and how to create congregational...

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Finding Our Story: Narrative Leadership and Congregational Change

This collection of essays by various congregational consultants helps congregations...

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