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The Future is Now:
How God Is Moving in the 21st Century

Are you a ministry leader wondering what's next? Ever ask yourself, where have all the people gone? Think your ministry can do better at reaching more people?

The Future is Now takes you through how God is moving and working in the church today and the key strategies needed to increase effectiveness in ministry and mission. The time is now for you to read this book, because God is moving now!

The J-Dog Journey:
Where is Life? 

The story that started it all for Servants Equipping New Disciples, SEND North America.

Read about the story of a young man looking for direction and for God's plan for his life. Discover, just has he did, that God has a plan, even when we think He doesn't. Discover there are places God is calling you to, you've never even imagined, and discover how, through taking on a new adventure you can find God, find yourself, and find your passion and purpose in life.

Read this story and be prepared to be challenged and changed. If you're a young adult searching, a parent, pastor, or ministry leader who knows a young adult who you believe might be called by God for something great - share this story with them.

$ 14.00

Discover Your Windows:
Lining Up With God's Vision

After interviewing 15,000 church members and surveying 18,000 more, this book shows that many people operate from a worldview that is not biblical. By reading this book, you can review your own approach to Christianity and see how you measure up. Discover that:

• ~ Your purpose determines your mission
• ~ Your comfort determines your sacrifice
• ~ Your image determines your impact
• ~ Your desire determines your priorities
• ~ Your blessings determines your giving
• ~ Your abundance determines your possibilities
• ~ Your past determines your future
• ~ Your pastor determines your potential
• ~ Your giftedness determines your involvement
• ~ The power of God determines your attitude

This best-selling book will make you a different person.

$ 13.00

Move Your Church to Action

A healthy, thriving church, one that is active with purpose and a sense of mission, is a goal upon which all Christians can agree. Yet the path to that goal—and especially the first steps along the way—are often difficult to achieve. This book provides clear, practical guidance on how to implement simple, direct strategies for change.

$ 13.00

Your Church Has Personality:
Find Your Focus—Maximize Your Mission

The church is a living body of Christ. Every church has its own personality. To discover it and to communicate it to others is a key outreach strength. This book gives you a step-by-step process for developing a philosophy of ministry. It tells how how that statement can become a printed or video brochure/DVD to help your congregation communicate what you have to offer.

$ 18.00

The Jesus Enterprise

How would Jesus minister to someone with a nose ring or purple hair? This book says He would engage him in a relevant way. Enterprising ministry meets people's needs, develops relationships, and shares God's love. What is your posture toward culture? Do you retreat, ignore, or judge?

The Jesus Enterprise will show you term of engagement that will turn your Christianity 180 degrees toward relevance and effectiveness. Learn about the cutting-edge ministries that the most exciting churches are using today. From rock climbing walls to skateboard parks, from interactive worship to cyber cafes. You too can join the Jesus Enterprise.

www.the Jesus Enterprise.com

$ 10.00

Foundations for Church Growth:
Biblical Basics for the Local Church

This is the fundamental resource for understanding church growth from the biblical perspective. Used throughout the world, translated into numerous languages, used by churches, seminaries, and Bible colleges, this is the best manual for training members to think, understand, and practice biblical church growth in their personal lives and in their church. This book includes a glossary of church growth terms. It represents an introduction to a church growth course on a Doctor of Ministry level put into words every Christian can understand and put to use.

$20.00

The Church Growth Leader's Index

This questionnaire, which comes in packets of 50, is a reflective tool to help leaders think through their church growth potential based on their understanding of leadership, the church, and the Great Commission. This is a great tool for leadership training, starting a discussion on leadership, or a leadership retreat.

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Church Vitality Profile

Discover the vitality of your church in eight categories:

• Spiritual Health
• Local Environmental Factors
• Worldview
• Attitude
• Leadership
• Programming
• Openness to Change, and
• Assimilation/Ministry to Inactives

This is a tool that begins with a questionnaire answered by a cross-section of your leadership. You return the questionnaire and, in a few weeks, receive a report of over twenty pages directed to your congregation. It will pinpoint which areas of vitality in your church are strong and where you need improvement. Each area is displayed in graphic form so you can demonstrate your vitality profile to otehrs in your congregation.

When added together, these eight areas will determine your congregation's position on a Growth Probability Scale. This graph will instantly demonstrate how closely your congregation falls in the area of maximum effectiveness for God's work. Each category will include recommendations from a Church Doctor consultant who will personally provide you action-oriented steps to improve your church.

Many congregations use this too as an annual health "checkup" from a Church Doctor.

$55.00

Discover Your Windows Questionnaire

Help the people of your church discover their biblical—or unbiblical—worldviews!

The self-discovery process through this engaging questionnaire provides members with multiple-choice answers. Upon scoring the questionnaire, they discover whether or not their vision lines up with God's.

Based on the best-selling book Discover Your Windows: Lining Up With God's Vision, this questionnaire is a great discussion starter. It is the ideal way to start a Bible class series or sermon series on the ten chapters of Discover Your Windows that deal with the biblical worldviews that impact the productivity of the church the most.

The license for this questionnaire, once purchased, allows the congregation to print as many copies as desired. You can survey your leadership and staff or the entire congregation.

As people process the information reflected in this questionnaire, you will start a discussion at the very heart of what drives behavior among members of the church. This questionnaire is the beginning of a process that will help you help the people of your church think like Jesus.

$ 98.00

70 Days of Vision Campaign Resource Kit

A 10-, 9-, or 8-week small group and preaching effort that transforms your local congregation at the origin of change: biblical worldviews. However you fit the Vision Campaign into the life of your church, our prayer for you is for transformational change. It happens when people say, "this is a different church," and it signals increased vitality, health, joy, and focus to bring God's Kingdom to the people of your community.

When you purchase your 70 Days of Vision Campaign Resource Kit, you will receive both hard-copy and digital editions of :

• A cover letter
• Campaign Brochures
• Advertising and Outreach Material
• Bulletin Announcements
• The Campaign Timetable
• The Prayer Guide and Prayer Schedule
• Discover Your Windows Questionnaire
• Small Group Discussion Starters for Small Group Leaders
• Preaching Helps and Model Messages
• Message PowerPoints

$ 2.00

Spiritual Gifts Profile

You can't understand where you should serve God in your church unless you know your spiritual gifts.

This survey is one of the two or three most widely used spiritual gifts discovery tools in the world. It is available in quantities for congregational-wide spiritual gifts discovery.