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Anabaptist Evangelism Council Reports - about the Council

Alternatives for Worship
by Cindy Hollenberg & Steve Clapp

For churches starting new worship services or seeking creative ideas for existing services.

Alternative Worship Primer
by Cindy Hollenberg

Arranged in a question and answer format, The Alternative Worship Primer tackles the issues churches face when they consider starting an alternative worship service. It provides 20 ready-to-use alternative worship services.

Building a Multicultural Congregation: Widening the Welcome of Your Church to Other Cultures
edited by G. Edwin Bontrager

A handbook to help congregation members and their leaders understand cultural diversity and embrace it for the expanded outreach.

Called to Care  
Called to Equip
Called to Lead Video
by Palmer Becker

This series helps leaders and their congregations develop a vision for small groups and provide a setting for welcoming newcomers into them.

A Church for the 21st Century Video

New ideas to help your church minister in a changing world.  Includes examples of churches who are making changes to reach their communities.

The Church of Recovery
by Sam Detwiler and Steve Clapp

The book also explores healthy ways that congregations can relate to 12-step groups and circumstances in which churches may choose to actively encourage such groups.

Church Planting: Laying Foundations (North American Edition)
by Stuart Murray

Church planting involves laying foundations. Strong and secure foundations provide the basis for healthy churches and effective mission. This book is not a training manual, but it is for practitioners rather than theorists. It lays some theological foundations for church planting and invites church planters to think seriously about missiology and ecclesiology.

Creating Quality in Ministry  
by Steve Clapp and Cindy Hollenberg Snider

Offers practical strategies for sharpening the focus and enhancing the impact of local church ministry.  

The Desires of Your  Heart –
Giving and the Spiritual Life 
by Holly Carcione, Steve Clapp, Kristen Leverton, and Angela Zimmerman

This book shares the results of Christian Community's research on stewardship and the spiritual life in the form of practical strategies which any church can use to improve its financial base.  

Dessert First – Complete Financial Commitment Program

This package draws on Christian Community's extensive research to give your congregation four options for the annual commitment program.  See what others have said about our stewardship materials.

Dessert First: Reflections on Stewardship and the Spiritual Life - Devotional Booklet 
by Steve Clapp

A devotional booklet designed for individual or group reflection on the relationship between the spiritual life and financial giving.  Priced for quantity distribution.

Evangelism: Good News or Bad News?  
by the Andrew Center staff

This report deals with crucial questions including that are often raised as a challenge to evangelism today.  It seeks to provide a holistic perspective.

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