Name: Designing Effective Women's Ministries By Jill Briscoe
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Designing Effective Women's Ministries Summary

Designing Effective Women's Ministries: Choosing, Planning, and Implementing the Right Programs for Your Church by Jill Briscoe

For nearly twenty-five years, Elmbrook Church in Waukesha, WI, has supported a variety of ministries by and for women. Today their program stands as a model. Yet, as the authors of Designing Effective Women's Ministries will tell you, it did not happen overnight, but through trial and error. In Designing Effective Women's Ministries, the authors share what worked for them and what didn't. they explain how to start where you are, with what you have, and how to do what God wants you to do. Designing Effective Women's Ministries included tips and techniques for establishing groups and programs that meet the needs of today's women. The book shows how to develop programs that are specifically tailored to your church and your community.

About Jill Briscoe

Jill Briscoe was born in Liverpool, England, in 1935. Educated at Cambridge, she taught school for a number of years before marrying Stuart and raising their three children. In addition to sharing with her husband in ministry with Torchbearers at Capernwray in England, and in pastoring a church in the United States for thirty years, Jill has written more than forty books, travelled on every continent teaching and encouraging, served on the boards of Christianity Today and World Relief, and now acts as executive editor of a magazine for women called Just Between Us. Jill can be heard regularly on the worldwide media ministry Telling the Truth. She is proud to be called Nana by thirteen grandchildren. Since 1990, Laurie has served as pastor of the Elmbrook Women's Ministries, a dynamic ministry drawing over 1,200 women weekly. In addition, she maintains an ambitious speaking schedule at retreats and conferences. Laurie has co-authored Designing Effective Women's Ministries with Jill Briscoe, and is a contributing author of Mothers Have Angel Wings by Carol Kent. She is a graduate of Biola University and Dallas Theological Seminary. Beth Seversen has served as a ministry leader at Elmbrook Church, Waukesha, WI. She was formerly associate pastor of women's ministries at Elmbrook Church.

Contents Prologue Acknowledgments Part I: BEGINNING A WOMEN'S MINISTRY 1. The Best Way to Begin Is to Begin 2. Start With What You've Got 3. Designing a Ministry Through Brainstorming Perspective: Are You a Doer or a Dreamer? 4. Put It All Together Part II: MEETING WOMEN WHERE THEY LIVE 5. Morning Break Perspective: Commitment to the Same Faces 6. Moms and More Perspective: Quiet Times in Noisy Times 7. Evening Edition Perspective: Women Wearing Many Hats 8. The Widow's Might Part III: DEVELOPING YOUR LEADERS 9. The Coordinator's Board 10. Looking for and Leading Your Leaders 11. Effective Leadership Retreats Part IV: REACHING YOUR WORLD 12. Breakaway for Renewal Perspective: Ask No Quarter 13. Reaching Out through Special Events Perspective: Between Your Own Two Feet 14. Women on a Mission Part V: ENERGIZING YOUR MINISTRY 15. Being Women of Prayer Epilogue: Women Who Change Their World Appendix 1: Caring for a Speaker Appendix 2: Surveys and Forms

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9780310431916

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0310431913

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Designing Effective Women's Ministries: Choosing, Planning, and Implementing the Right Programs for Your Church by Jill Briscoe

Author

Jill Briscoe

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Publisher

Zondervan

Year published

19950601

Number of pages

224

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Designing Effective Women's Ministries Jill Briscoe

Designing Effective Women's Ministries by Jill Briscoe

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Designing Effective Women's Ministries: Choosing, Planning, and Implementing the Right Programs for Your Church by Jill Briscoe

About Jill Briscoe

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