SU Victoria

Margaret Wheatley is well known in the world of Organization Leadership. This book delves into the secret life of teams and leaders, providing ‘break-through’ understandings of how organizations do and should work. A rich and very exciting book for anyone who takes leadership and teamwork seriously.

Our culture is constantly changing, as fast as – or faster than – we can adapt to it.

By highly recommended authors Catherine Stonehouse (Joining Children on The Spiritual Journey) and Scottie May (Children Matter), an enlightening and challenging book for all those nurturing the faith of children. Used and recommended by Chris Barnett of CTM, this book is also praised by Ivy Beckwith adn Jerome Berrymen.
Stonehouse and May have listened to children and their parents and clearly establish the necessity and strategies for setting the stage, with our youngest Christians, for a thriving spiritual life and future.

One of the current ministries being developed here at Scripture Union is the development and growth of mutually beneficial relationships between schools and churches. Intended for church leaders, lay ministers, parents and childrens’ ministry workers, this book by Margaret Withers encourages churches to see engagement with their local schools as part of their service to the community God has placed them amongst.

Local author Ash Barker shares first hand experience of the richness and life experienced when we follow Christ into sharing the daily reality of the majority of the world’s population.
The Bible repeatedly calls for the end of poverty and consequent oppression and suffering. Ash Barker and his family have answered the call with conviction and action and this book is a powerful testimony to what God does when we answer the call.

Teaching and talking from experience, Stephen Robinson shares first hand wisdom on care for those experiencing a major disaster.
Robinson has been a volunteer fire-fighter and chaplain with the NSW Rural Fire Service since 1996. This book is the fruit of a a doctorate that included many interviews with chaplains and pastors who have working in disaster settings, and offers advice and strategies specific to these situations.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove takes the reader inside new monasticism, tracing its roots through scripture and history and illuminating its impact on contemporary church.
One the of the most repeated criticisms non-Christians have of our faith is that for all the talk and bells, we don’t seem very much different from non-Christians in what we have, what we do in our daily lives, what we spend and where we live.
New Monastic movements are bringing fresh and modern life to the monastic movement, offering a new/old, radical but ancient way of living the Christian life – in such a way that no one could miss the difference!

For the secular age we live in, and all those who are skeptical of “organised religion” (so-called!) and institutions, one of the forms of Christianity that remains universally respected and appealing is monasticism. Signs of fresh life, based on ancient traditions, are springing up around the world, including in Australia and Victoria, as Christians seek new forms of the monastic Christian life. This communal, sacrificial and missional way of following Christ may be one of the ways that Christians show the reality of the goodness and radical nature of Christ through their own radical committment to that can actually be said to be ‘different from everybody else’.
By Graham Cray, Ian Mobsby and Aaron Kennedy.

By local author Kristen Hobby (Melbourne), this delightful book looks at exploring spirituality with pre-schoolers. One of a relatively small group of books exclusively for under 5’s, Hobby has called on a great creative and theological talent to provide the reader with motivation and ideas for teaching toddlers how to experience thoughtful, comptemplative listening – to their own heart and the songs within. A celebration and encouragement of each unique spirit.

An Orange leaders is any leader who connects other leaders and parents in order to build faith in the next generation.
What worked yesterday in ministry may not work today – and what works today may not work tomorrow. This book can help you to do an honest assessment of your ministry and develop strategies for moving on with change and become a skilled modifier of programs or strategies that need change.