Jan Goodyear

Written in three parts, this resource examines the characteristics of five generations while offering practical suggestions for integrating generations within church life.

This compilation of articles examines issues and trends relating to developing intergenerational congregations, providing a new perspective on families, singles, and aging.

This book shares insight into why and how small congregations can be strong and viable despite challenges. Here, the small church is capable of creating close communities that lead to natural cooperation and ministry.

This resource summarizes survey findings to provide a broad overview of trends in American religion.

This resource seeks to lessen the stresses of pastoral leadership, offering three traits --- stillness, awareness, and playfulness --- as ways to sustain spiritual empowerment.

This workbook introduces 50 different models for strategic thinking, detailing a history, purpose, and suggested applications for readers to modify based off their needs.

This resource explores historical and current models of missional models, noting how they promote faith among the community and embed themselves in the world.

This book equips congregations to include people with autism, offering strategies and templates for meaningful and inclusive ministry.

Based on research from Fuller Youth Institute, this series focuses on teens in the transitional years of high school and college, specifically looking at those who have active faith backgrounds and what kept them engaged or caused them to become disengaged.

This book examines how to avoid miscommunication, build trust, protect confidential information, and practice transparency.

Drawing on the author's experience as a patient care practitioner and chaplain, this resource explores death in the context of faithful living.

This book demonstrates how to live the Jewish mandate to love one's neighbor, studying Jewish texts and applying them to modern times.

This book examines the multitude of definitions for the term "missional" before offering its own definition based within a biblical and theological context.

This book explores healthy small church ministry such as relationship-building, utilizing individual gifts, and determining priorities.

This resource includes inspirational stories of congregations who leaned into their faith in order to create something new or overcome a challenge. Collected by the Union Presbyterian Seminary, these stories will inspire your congregation to open up to God's spirit.

This resource explores curated worship as an innovative approach to the worship experience, where the designer gathers elements, provides a context, and allows others to engage in imaginative thinking.

This comprehensive guide helps congregations lay the groundwork for establishing vibrant intergenerational churches.

This guide offers a toolkit to make client-based ministry with the poor more transformative for the ones being helped, addressing the complexity of poverty issues.

This resource presents the Missional Church Learning Experience as a potential model to help congregations develop missional projects with partnering churches to share experiences and ensure sustainability.

This resource argues that the old approach to making maps, a strategic planning technique, is no longer applicable to today. Instead, it outlines a new map-making strategy that can be flexible to a more local context.

This book will help your congregation take the first step towards becoming more missionally engaged, inspiring new ways to leave an impact and providing success stories of congregations who did it.

This resource offers a new approach to faith formation, outlining four practices that involve intergenerational activities and home-based practices.

This book shares how to develop a meaningful and transformative youth ministry that adjusts to real-time challenges.

This resource takes the guesswork out of how to plan and implement the task of evaluation and curriculum development by offering a step-by-step process.

This book teaches readers how to integrate technology like video and lighting with the vision God has given a church in order to create a powerful worship service.

Written in five sections, this resource is the result of a symposium of 200 bishops who met to discuss gun violence after the tragedy of the Sandy Hook shooting.

This book highlights the differences between connecting through technology and connecting through genuine community by examining the role of social media among youth and how to apply social media to ministry.

This resource clarifies the issues that make stewardship so challenging in modern times, examining practices that lead to faithful discipleship.

This book includes detailed "how to" plans to create an arts-based camp that includes scripture stories, issues such as ecology and peace, and bonding as a faith community.

This book speaks candidly to congregations wondering how to draw young adults to church, offering insights into what young adults are looking for and making suggestions on how churches can engage with this demographic.

This practical guide offers a new way for leaders to create environments where all members feel valued and included, leading to productive encounters.

This book explores how a neighborhood-based faith congregation can leave an impact on the community using practices modeled by Jesus.

This book examines the three types of humility that affects relationships and how to use inquiry as a way to counter "do and tell" cultures.

For-profit and nonprofit institutions looking to create a gift giving component for their organization will find this a valuable resource. Written by the founder of the National Planned Giving Institute, this book takes a holistic view of the process, constantly emphasizing the relational factors that exist when gift, giver and gift planner come together. It starts with understanding the various kinds of planned gifts that can be offered. Next is a look at who planned givers are, why they wish to give, and what they wish to keep. Matching these motivations with the right kind of gift planner is beneficial and can make a difference in choosing a CPA, attorney, financial planner, etc. Financial plans and emotional considerations must be held in a respectful balance. If a gift giving component is added to an organization, it is vital to know how boards of trustees, CEOs, and other managers can play important roles in making a planned giving program succeed.

Church treasurers and officers have a burden of responsibility to clearly communicate how members' monies are being managed. What are some of the basics that can cause this task to have positive effects on future giving? Prepared by a former professor of accounting, this short, 29-page e-book is a good starting point. Effective, clear reports leave no room for doubt and build trust so that congregations can make decisions based on sound data. Different reports go to different audiences, so it is essential to communicate well so that congregants with little understanding of finances can see a clear picture. In a chapter on principles of financial reporting, questions are asked to elevate awareness of the organization's practices to judge whether it is providing useful information to congregants. Each chapter concludes with a couple of action item questions to help stewards assess their approaches. Suggested sources, such as books, websites, and downloads are offered for further study.

While most charitable giving is geared toward religious organizations, is there any carry-over in giving to non-religious organizations? The answer appears to be "yes," based upon giving by mainline Protestants, Jews, Roman Catholics, and Americans with no religious affiliation, but who are motivated toward helping others and giving to causes that affect change. Connectivity with a faith community breeds the desire to give to a broad selection of other causes. Understanding that giving is influenced by institutions' purposes and the givers' own spiritual motivations has a significant impact on all organizations, religious or otherwise. Recognizing and honoring donors' orientations and commitments can breathe more energy into committed giving. Seven key findings that include statistical analysis and summary conclusions are explored, with the promise of ongoing research in this area.

This book speaks to the intergenerational gap and offers suggestions for bridging divides using the biblical example of Jesus and Paul, who invited all to participate.