Bi-Vocational/Part-time Pastors Resources

compiled by Ronald W. Waters

last updated 01/06/2003

The following list of resources is provided for your assistance. Inclusion in this list does not imply the endorsement of all the content by New Life Ministries. We do believe you will find them to be helpful.

Bickers, Dennis. The Tentmaking Pastor: The Joy of Bivocational Ministry. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2000.

Clapp, Steve; Ron Finney, and Angela Zimmerman. Preaching, Planning, and Plumbing: The Implications for Bivocational Ministry for the Church and for You. Richmond and Fort Wayne, Indiana: The Brethren Academy and LifeQuest, 1999. Available through New Life Ministries at www.NewLifeMinistries-NLM.org .

Dorr, Luther. The Bivocational Pastor. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1988.

Elliott, John Y. Our Pastor Has An Outside Job: New Strength for the Church through Dual Role Ministry. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1980 (111 pp.).

Greene, James Y. The Dual Career Ministry: Bivocational Ministry in the 21^st Century. Cary, N.C.: The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, 1989.

Lowery, James L., Jr. Case Histories of Tentmakers. Wilton, Conn.: Morehouse-Barlow Co., 1976 (83 pp.).

McCarty, Doran C. Meeting the Challenge of the Bivocational Ministry. Nashville: Seminary Extension of the Southern Baptist Seminaries, 1996.

Bi-Vocational/Part-time Pastors Resources

Also check this web site: http://members.aol.com/bivopastor and other bivocational/part-time ministry links.

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