ideas! for Church Leaders: Winter 2006-2007
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The art featured on the cover is from the 2006 Peacemaking Offering. The illustration was drawn by Annette Cable.

 
   
 
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Families Living as a Small-Group Ministry

Presbyterian Men
Christians and Citizens
It Is in Giving that We Receive
Consider the Season

Remembering What Is Holy about Holidays

From Darkness to Light: The Journey from Advent to Epiphany

Christmas Joy Offering

Continuing Study Ideas for Elders
and Deacons

The Church’s Book

Keeping It Together

Calvin and Luther: Working Together in the Twenty-first Century

Thus Far on the Way: Toward a Theology of Child Advocacy

One Congregation, One Women’s Class, and One Question: “What Should We Study?”

Welcome Aboard the VBS Express

God—Father, Mother, or Parent?

African American Leadership Beyond
the Church Walls

 

Remembering What Is Holy about Holidays

Following Thanksgiving, we hear the annual news reports of people pushing and shoving their way into stores for Christmas shopping specials, and reports on how much our society goes into debt each year for the holiday season.

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2006 Christmas Joy Offering

Last year the Christmas Joy Offering introduced a PowerPoint CD. This is the first such Special Offerings resource. Unfortunately, it appeared late enough in the Offering’s season that many people did not learn about it in time to use it. Those who did use it were very positive about it. This year’s resources will include an updated version with a couple of new twists. We hope you will find it helpful.

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One Congregation, One Women’s Class, and One Question: “What Should We Study?”

A church was in transition with an interim pastor. Serious questions were raised about what it really means to be Presbyterian and Reformed.

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