<p>This book will be a fresh and comprehensive resource of twelve essential for providing quality Christian education for adults in the church. It also grow out of a concern that pastor, staff, and lay leaders grasp the potential this age group has for continuing their spiritual developing and updating their understanding of God, the Bible, the church and its mission, and their role in the church family. This book will be used for training ministry students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It will be a resource for students anticipate serving on the paid vocational church staff. In addition, it is designed to be used by church leaders to train volunteer teachers and workers to conduct Bible teaching and learning for this all ages of adults. Also, it provides guidelines for reaching and ministering to adults and their families. While it is written from the perspective of persons of the Baptist faith tradition, it will be useful for training ministers and lay volunteers teachers in other Evangelical traditions. The book will be used as a supplementary textbook and will be instructive. The content will provide guidelines for developing and conducting teaching and learning for this age group. Also, guideline will be provided for all aspects of ministry for this age group. This book is composed of 12 Essentials for doing quality Christian education for the adult age groups. It begins with a biblical and theological foundation, gives information about the context for ministry to all ages of adults and their families, and helps persons understand what these age group are like and how spiritual formation takes place. Guidelines are also given for helping vocational age group minister and volunteer leaders in gaining support from the pastor, other staff, and the congregation. A key chapter relates to quality teaching -- the often overlooked aspect of ministry in emerging churches today – much more that fellowship and “just hanging out.” Ideas are also given for creatively conducting activities to attract adults and their families. Guidelines are also given for providing state of the art facilities and equipment needed for a good learning environment. Also addressed are the all-important skills for securing, developing, motivating, and ministering to a group of caring leaders and teachers. To round out the skills needed for effective adult ministry, is that of developing a viable system for communicating to adults, volunteer workers, and the congregation. Finally, a chapter is provided on using wholesome motivation and servant leadership as a means of guiding and inspiring teachers and leaders and parents. As mentioned above the target audiences will be ministry students in universities and seminaries, pastors and staff leaders in local congregations, and persons who lead small groups in Sunday School Bible teaching will be in the focus of writers.</p>

Adult Christian Education: 12 Essentials for Effective Church Ministry to Adults and Their Families

Spooner, Bernard M.

Parrott, Dennis

Shotwell, Carter

Gambrell, Bill

Williamson, Brad

Stege, Steve

Lowry, Keith

Crouch, Keith

Liebrum, Chris

Cranford, B.J.

Religion & Spirituality

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This small volume provides a history of Earl W. Spooner and Lomie Vick Spooner. Some limited background is given about each of their ancestry in Great Britain and Europe, where their ancestors left from in Europe, where they landed in the colonies, and how they eventually arrived at the places our parents were born. Also, this volume has some information about each of their children and their families. The book includes available photos of family members in color or black and white.

Family History of Earl and Lomie Spooner: Summary and Highlights with Picture Album

History

Vanderhoef, Jane Spooner

Americas

<p>Senior Adult Discipleship is composed of nine essentials for doing quality Christian education for the senior adult age group. This age group is generally thought of as adults who are age sixty-five and older. Church leaders simply must be led to address this major segment of believers and especially new members now. Churches will soon discover baby boomers are already joining the retirement ranks. The impact of this growth is already being felt in churches and in society. This book will help pastors, church staff members, church lay leaders, and church members to commit themselves to make a difference for Christ through quality discipleship of senior adults. To fail to disciple current and new Christians, including those who are senior adults, is unacceptable in light of the urgency of Jesus in commissioning the early disciples. The senior adult age group is important to the enrichment of this special group and the overall work of Christ in the ministry of local churches. Furthermore, the concern of this book is not just to suggest ways to minister to senior adults. Rather, the book also emphasizes providing resources for leading senior adults themselves to engage in ministry. This book is part of a series that provides the essentials for effective church ministry to all age groups. The titles of the books in this series are as follows: Preschool Christian Education; Children's Christian Education; Youth/Collegiate Christian Education; Adult Christian Education. An additional book, Christian Education Leadership, provides a comprehensive overview of Christian education for all ages.Bernard M. Spooner, Ph.D., general editor, has a lifetime of experience in helping churches, including fifteen years as a local church minister and more than three decades as a seminary and university professor and denominational leader. He served as the first dean of what is now the Graduate School of Ministry of Dallas Baptist University, Dallas, Texas.</p>

Senior Adult Discipleship: Essentials for Effective Church Ministry to Senior Adults

Lawson, Margaret

Fuston, Bob G.

Everett, Randel

Barrett, Robby

Independently published

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