Make It or Break It? -Make It or Break it is a "must-have" resource to help equip your short-term missions team. A mission trip can change your life and the life of your church. Whether you are doing construction, VBS, medical ministry, disaster relief, or any of a host of various projects, a missions trip is an opportunity to explore the work of God in a different culture and has the potential of making God BIGGER! But not every trip delivers. What does your team need to know to make the most of their trip? In Make It or Break It, long time missionary Gary Chambers examines how you and your church can make the most of this investment of people, time, and financial resources. From initial conversations, to picking a project, to preparing your team physically and emotionally, Gary examines the many facets of planning and executing a short-term trip.

Make It or Break It? A Guide to Doing Short-term Missions

Religion & Spirituality

Garry D. Chambers

Christian Books & Bibles

PCA CDM

Jesus modeled a different kind of leadership. His leadership brought life to His followers, and our leadership should too. But how can our leadership be life-giving when it can so easily be life-taking? Susan and Karen challenge us to: Think biblically and lead covenantally Find our confidence in Christ, not ourselves Set our purpose on eternal goals instead of specific tasks Reflect Jesus, not agendas Lead with prayer &amp; wisdom Seek covenantal community Submit to God and the complementarian leadership of the church Life-giving leadership is grounded in God's Word, filled with the purpose of glorifying God, relationally driven and decidedly different than anything the world teaches us about leadership. Practical, inspiring and filled with stories of women, like you, who want to know how to lead in a way that reflects Christ. Karen serves as the Coordinator for PCA Women's Ministry, where she seeks to connect women and churches to one another and to sound resources. Susan is the former PCA Coordinator for Women's Ministry and served as a consultant to CDM. Susan is the author and co-author of several books for women's ministries and children.

Life-giving Leadership

Karen Hodge

Life-giving Leadership Leader's Guide contains two parts: The leader's discussion guide and a leadership journal for the participants. Leadership Contexts: This leader's guide is designed to help you take a group of women through Life-giving Leadership. Women lead in many different contexts, often several at the same time such as the home, church, workplace, and community. Leadership Groups: We hope the truths of this book will be transferable to any type of group or team you lead. For our purposes, we will use the word GROUP for the widest application unless we are referencing something only a ministry team would do. You may serve on a children's ministry team, worship team, mercy ministry team, or a women's leadership team. You may be studying this book with a group of women's Bible study small group leaders and teachers. You may study this book with a group of women at your church. All three approaches will require you to: Read Life-giving Leadership Reference the Leader's Guide in this manual. Reference the Leadership Journal (will be noted LJ) in this manual. This needs to be copied and put in a notebook for participants and given to them with a book.

Life-giving Leadership Leader’s Guide

Karen Hodge and Susan Hunt

To be unraveled is to be undone, to untangle your identity and the layers of lies that permeate your story so that you can clearly see the truth. Being made new requires an unraveling, as the stories from your past are transformed and the new threads are tightly tied to the gospel. Join Rachel Craddock as she boldly shares how God has been slowly unraveling her story. Rachel shares how her mother's death, her struggle with perfectionism, and her role as a pastor's wife have unraveled her, revealing her need for Christ and a desire to see every thread of who she is in light of the gospel. Rachel, a writer and speaker, serves as Regional Advisor of Women's Ministry to Mid-America for the PCA. She desires to encourage women in a relatable way to practically apply the gospel to their daily lives and have a a relationship with the God who unravels the old to make us new in the redemptive blood of Jesus. Rachel, her husband Michael, and their four children live in Mason, Ohio, where Michael is the lead pastor at North Cincinnati Community Church.

Slowly Unraveled: Changed from the Inside Out

Rachel Ann Craddock

With clarity and beautiful illustrations, The Good Shepherd's Pasture explains to both children and their parents the rich covenantal theology of baptism in story form using the metaphor of the Good Shepherd's Pasture for the Church. "What a tremendous gift this book is to the covenant family of God! Elizabeth has a wonderful ability to bring to life the awe and significance of baptism for our little ones. Your heart, and Lord willing the heart of your child, will be stirred through the vibrant word pictures she paints centered around Jesus as our Good Shepherd. This book will be one parents can read to their covenant children for generations to come!" Jeff Norris, Pastor, Perimeter Church, Atlanta, GA

The Good Shepherd's Pasture: A Story of Your Baptism

Elizabeth Harwell

Seductress. Prostitute. Outcast. Adulterer. Pregnant unwed Teen. Who would highlight that kind of ancestry? Jesus would. The only person who ever got to choose His family, doesn’t hide the messes. He highlights them for all to see. He unashamedly says they’re His. The Gospel of Matthew begins with Jesus’s family tree, an unusual one not only because it includes women, but messy women: Tamar, who tricked her father-in-law to impregnate her; Rahab, the Jericho prostitute who betrayed her countrymen; Ruth, the widowed Moabitess turn beggar; and Bathsheba, listed only by her murdered husband’s name. Then there was Mary. Although we know her innocence and submission to God, those around her questioned her purity and the legitimacy of the Child she bore. Join Susan Tyner in examining how God wove the messy stories of these five women together into His Big Story of salvation. And learn how He continues to redeem His children—one messy story at a time. INCLUDES free Bible Timeline for use with study. Who is the author? Susan Tyner serves as Women’s Ministry Coordinator at Trinity Presbyterian Church. She is a regular contributor for the EnCourage blog and podcast, was one of the contributing authors of the Hinged Bible study and enjoys speaking at conferences and retreats. Susan and her husband, Lee, have five children, and an almost empty nest.

What's She Doing Here? The Messy Women in Jesus' Genealogy

Tyner, Susan

Reference

The Good King's Feast: An Invitation to the Lord's Table

Naomi: Reason to Hope

Deb McQuilkin

With engaging narratives and rich biblical truths, these 365 daily devotionals for kids ages 8-13 focus on scripture passages from Genesis to Revelation. The questions at the end of each day’s entry are designed to challenge young readers to learn God’s truths, to love them, and then to go and live out these truths every day. The “Teach It” questions provide a way for readers and their families to discuss God’s Word and think more deeply together about living as followers of Christ. Whether reading and studying as a family or on your own, developing the daily habit of learning God’s Word, loving God’s Word, living God’s Word, and teaching God’s Word will set an example for your children to follow for years to come.

Learn it. Love it. Live it. Teach it! A Daily Devotionalthrough the Bible for Children (alone) or Families (together)

John Kwasny

Praying with Paul: Using the Apostle’s Prayers to Guide Our Own

Jim Simoneau

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