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Used and recommended by CTM Children and Families Ministry staff, this book contains three complete Christmas plays with lots of mime and movement (speaking parts minimal), hints for preparing for the day of the play and photocopiable sheets and scripts.
Everything you need to stage a play kids will love doing and adults will love seeing!

Where do leaders come from?
What does it take to be a leader?
When does leadership begin?
Dr Robert Clinton identifies the sometimes surprising patterns God uses to make a leader. A highly recommended book for anyone interested in leadership, or working as a leader or with leaders.
Includes a personal reflection/application at the end of each chapter.

Church Leadership professor Leonard Sweet understands that in our fluid and postmodern culture church ministries need to be continually re-shaped to reach a society that is essentially adrift. In Australia, a post-Christendom country where the majority of the population do not attend church, this is particularly so.
Aqua Church is a guide for developing responsive and relevant church leadership, fusing Biblical wisdom with modern day insights.

By George Barna has conducted thousands of interviews with young adults and their parents to investigate what goes into the raising of a powerful and passionate Christian. Barna knows there is no one-size-fits-all answer but Barna goes along way to providing key concepts and skills that will strengthen and enlighten parents.

The Bible can be a daunting read and there are many Christians who only touch the surface. Mike Beaumont (Oxford) provides clear and concise help in taking the first step towards really enjoying and comprehending the stories and teachings, by establishing an ‘overview’ to provide a primary foundational knowledge.
Easy to use, the book includes:
*An accessible overview of the Bible Story
*Chapters on key themes and characters
*Insights into application of the Bible in our lives today
*Over 150 colour illustrations, timelines and maps

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.

Walter C Wright (Executive Director of the De Pree Leadership Centre at Fuller Theological Seminary) reflects on ‘Leadership, Relationships and Teamwork’. His book comes highly recommended by CTM Ministry staff.
If you are in leadership and looking to create a cohesive, happy and effective church or ministry team, this book will provide invaluable teachings and insight.

In this book, Parker J Palmer guides through an honest process of listening to the voice of the Spirit as ‘inner teacher’ to find our own unique sense of calling and purpose. For anyone who is ‘not sure’ about what they are meant to be doing, or who feels themselves to be subject to despondency or darkness, this book is a most helpful shared journey towards knowing where to be and where to go.

Rob Bell has gifts – for interpretation, for honesty, for humour and for clarity. Velvet Elvis distills them all in this ‘repainting of The Christian Faith’. So who do you think God is? And what does that mean about YOU? Explore this in an edgy and incisive way with Rob Bell.

In this follow up to the best selling ‘Velvet Elvis’, Rob Bell explores the connections between sexuality and spirituality.