Seasoned ministry leaders know that volunteers are hard to find. Parents are often busy and stressed. Youth workers get confused and burnt out. It's easy to be discouraged by or question the impact of your church's children s ministry! Cynthia Brown, author of Energizing Your Children's Ministry, deeply understands the eternal significance of children s ministry. That's why she gathered her vast experience (over 40 years in children's ministry) and personal anecdotes into a practical tool for church workers and volunteers who are passionate about outreach to God's littlest disciples. She starts with the foundational understanding that re-evaluating your children's ministry is as basic as your ABCDs: assess your church's needs, build relationships, create a leadership team, and then define the focus. These crucial steps are key in creating and leading children's programs that inspire and educate children and their families. So whether you teach Sunday school, VBS, preschool, or another children's ministry, this inspiring book will encourage you to intentionally and prayerfully reach children with the Good News of the Gospel.

Energizing Your Childrens Ministry

Brown, Cynthia Stokes

Religion & Spirituality

CONCORDIA PUBLISHING* HOUSE

Why and how have whites joined people of color to fight against white supremacy in the United States? What have they risked and what have they gained? For anyone who has wondered about the character, motivations, and contributions of white civil rights activists, Refusing Racism offers rich portraits of four white American activists who have dedicated their lives to the struggle for civil rights. Drawing heavily on interviews and memoirs, this volume offers honest accounts of their thoughts and experiences and shows how their commitments are central to our ongoing history.

Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights (The Teaching for Social Justice Series)

History

Americas

Teachers' College Press

Why and how have whites joined people of color to fight against white supremacy in the United States? What have they risked and what have they gained? For anyone who has wondered about the character, motivations, and contributions of white civil rights activists, Refusing Racism offers rich portraits of four white American activists who have dedicated their lives to the struggle for civil rights. Drawing heavily on interviews and memoirs, this volume offers honest accounts of their thoughts and experiences and shows how their commitments are central to our ongoing history.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Alexander Meiklejohn: Teacher of Freedom

Legal Pubns

Gives instructions for writing oral histories and biographies including such aspects as planning, interviewing, transcribing, editing, and publishing the results

Like It Was: A Complete Guide to Writing Oral History

Teen & Young Adult

Teachers & Writers Collaborative

New Faces in Our Schools: Student-Generated Solutions to Ethnic Conflict

Jorgensen, Karen

Many Cultures Pub

The prizewinning educator’s brilliant and timely meditation on the misleading ways in which we teach the story of Rosa Parks Published in hardcover in the fall of 2005 shortly before Rosa Parks died, She Would Not Be Moved is a timely and important exploration of how the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott has been distorted when taught in schools. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review when it was first published as having “the transcendent power that allows us to see . . . alternate ways of viewing our history and understanding what is going on in our classrooms,” this expanded version of Kohl’s original groundbreaking discussion “deftly catalogs problems with the prevailing presentations of Parks and offers [a] more historically accurate, politically pointed and age-appropriate alternative” (Chicago Tribune).
In addition to Marian Wright Edelman’s introduction, She Would Not Be Moved includes an original essay by Cynthia Brown on civil rights activists Septima Clark, Virginia Durr, and Rosa Parks; a teachers’ resource guide to educational materials about Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement; and an appendix explaining how to evaluate textbooks for young people about this critical period in U.S. history.

She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Kohl, Herbert R.

The New Press

Jared Diamond meets Stephen Hawking in a book that fits human history into the history of the universe, by an American Book Award winner. An epic for our time, Big History begins when the universe is no more than a single point the size of an atom, squeezed together in unimaginable density, and ends with a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by 6.1 billion people. It's a story that takes in prehistoric geology, human evolution, the agrarian age, the Black Death, the voyages of Columbus, the industrial revolution, and global warming. Historian Cynthia Brown visits the Vikings, the Mayas and Aztecs, the Incas, the Mongol empire, and the Islamic heartlands. Along the way she considers topics as varied as cell formation, population growth, global disparities, and illiteracy, creating a stunning synthesis of historical and scientific knowledge of humanity and the earth we inhabit. Big History represents a new kind of history, one that skillfully interweaves historical knowledge and cutting-edge science. In an age of global warming, when the fate of the earth hangs in the balance, scientific advances permit us to see the universe as never before, grasping the timescales that allow us to understand the history of mankind in the context of its ecological impact on the planet. Cynthia Brown's lucid, accessible narrative is the first popularization of this innovative new field of study, as thrilling as it is ambitious.

Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present

New Press, The

An epic for our time, Big History begins when the universe is no more than a single point the size of an atom, squeezed together in unimaginable density, and ends with a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by 6.1 billion people. It's a story that takes in prehistoric geology, human evolution, the agrarian age, the Black Death, the voyages of Columbus, the industrial revolution, and global warming. Historian Cynthia Brown visits the Vikings, the Mayas and Aztecs, the Incas, the Mongol empire, and the Islamic heartlands. Along the way she considers topics as varied as cell formation, population growth, global disparities, and illiteracy, creating a stunning synthesis of historical and scientific knowledge of humanity and the earth we inhabit.  Big History represents a new kind of history, one that skillfully interweaves historical knowledge and cutting-edge science. In an age of global warming, when the fate of the earth hangs in the balance, scientific advances permit us to see the universe as never before, grasping the timescales that allow us to understand the history of mankind in the context of its ecological impact on the planet. Cynthia Brown's lucid, accessible narrative is the first popularization of this innovative new field of study, as thrilling as it is ambitious.

World

New Pr

Jared Diamond meets Stephen Hawking in the first popular book in an innovative new field that seeks to fit human history into the history of the universe, by an American Book Award winner. An epic book that Kirkus called "world history on a grand scale," Big History begins when the universe is no more than the size of an atom and ends with a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by 6.1 billion people. It's a story that takes in prehistoric geology, human evolution, the agrarian age, the Black Death, the voyages of Columbus, the industrial revolution, and global warming. Along the way historian Cynthia Stokes Brown considers topics as varied as cell formation, population growth, global disparities, and illiteracy, creating a stunning synthesis of the historical and scientific knowledge of humanity and the earth we inhabit. Big History represents a new kind of history, one that skillfully interweaves historical knowledge and cutting-edge science. In an age when scientific advances permit us to grasp the history of mankind in the context of its ecological impact on the planet, Brown's lucid, accessible narrative is the first popularization of this innovative new field of study, as thrilling as it is ambitious.

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Energizing Your Childrens Ministry

Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights (The Teaching for Social Justice Series)

Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights (The Teaching for Social Justice Series)

Alexander Meiklejohn: Teacher of Freedom

Like It Was: A Complete Guide to Writing Oral History

New Faces in Our Schools: Student-Generated Solutions to Ethnic Conflict

She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present

Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present

Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present