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These web sites have information and products that may be of help in outreach, although the Center for U.S. Missions does not necessarily endorse all the theology/viewpoints contained in these sites.
Click topic titles below for a list of links for each.
Church Planting
- MisLinks: An excellent link that displays numerous links to other mission sites. A quality site!
- Barna Group: Research helpful for church planting and ministry decisions
- Visions: Demography for churches
- U.S. Census Bureau: Population research and statistics
- Church Multiplication Center: Techniques, training and resources for multiplying and reproducing churches through equipping and empowering planters, pastors, spouses, and leaders.
- Church Planting links provides a plethora of web links for help in the area of church planting.
- Top Five - Lou Jander, MMF Texas district, recommends this site for Mission Planters. It provides the top 5 products, services, and ideas for church planters. It includes a lot of helpful information.
- Dynamic Church Planting: Paul Becker, Dynamic Church Planting International
- North Coast Training Network - Starting A Video Venue
- Congregations Reach Beyond Church For New Disciples - Leaders say the church must look to opportunities and needs of the marginalized
- Each Church Start a New Church - The United Methodist Church of the Philippines
- New Church Network [website] [blog]- New Church Network has the goal of starting 30 new Lutheran Churches in the Greater St. Louis metro area by providing strategic coordination, peer review, and multiplication funding for effective church starts.
Ethnic and Cross-Cultural
- Pentecost2000: Special effort of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod to plant 1000 new culture-specific ministries before 2002. Opportunity to contact various ministry sites and learn how the ministry started and is progressing
- Ethnic Harvest: This is an excellent site for ethnic/culture-specific ministries. It is filled with resources, articles, statistics, ministry helps and other links. You will be able to find out the ethnic makeup of your neighborhood on this web site.
Evangelism
- New Way: A place to find communication strategies to reach a target population with the Gospel.
- Brigada - Evangelism tools and ideas online:
- Evangelism and the internet
- Lutheran Evangelism Association
- The Lutheran Hour
- New Church Specialities
- Missions International, the home page for SG2, small group training geared to help reach the unchurched. This training is offered through the Center and is called Groups Ablaze.
- Outreach - Excellent evangelism resources
- Oswald Hoffmann School of Christian Outreach - loaded with Evangelism resources
- Fish the Net - links to sites on the net dealing with evangelism
- Friendship Ablaze! - a wealth of material for a friendship evangelism emphasis
- The Charthouse developed the Fish philosophy and produces the popular Fish video that helps organizations focus on engaging and serving the customer.
General Information
- ChurchSmart.com
- Christianity Today: Articles on contemporary Christian issues
- Pastors.com: Rick Warren's site from Saddleback Community Church. Numerous resources for the pastor.
- Lutherans Online: Resources for Lutherans
- William D. Carey Library
- The Hartford Institute for Religious Research has the results of numerous studies they have done on congregations and religious issues.
- Christian Cyclopedia online
- American Religious Data Archive, helpful demographic data
- Olive Tree Bible software - free Bible software with numerous translations and search capabilities.
- Ecunet - The oldest (15 years) Christian Online chat room
- Internet Christian Library - A wealth of Christian literature from the patristic era to the present; Bible studies, devotional, books, newsletters and much more.
- Adherents - A site to answer questions such as "How many Lutherans live in Florida?", "What are the major religions of India?" or "What percentage of the world is Muslim?"
- Glenmary - denominational statistics. Note that some statistics are more current than others.
Healthy Churches
- 5 Guiding Principles for Effective Ministry Teams an article on effective ministry teams
- The Path To Effective Ministry - an article using 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 on a personal path to effective ministry for Christians.
Leadership
- Church Champions: on the Leadership Network site
- Center for Creative Leadership - A helpful tool for leadership in the secular world
- Leadership Journal - An excellent site on leadership provided by Christianity Today.
- Smart Leadership - A secular site developed to leadership with many helpful insights into what makes a good leader.
- Easum, Bandy and associates -- Coaching church leaders for ministry in a pre-Christian world.
Mobilizing Members for Missions
- Ministry Tools Resource Center is a site loaded with helps for discovering your spiritual gifts and your ministry potential. It provides books, resources, links and even a free spiritual gifts inventory that you can take on site. A non-denominational site--be your own judge of the materials offered.
- Energize, Inc. is a comprehensive site for those who lead or manage volunteers in non-profit organizations -- resources, library, conversations, etc.
- The "Uniquely You" discovery tools combine spiritual gifts and personality (DiSC).
- This church has volunteer job descriptions on the internet: Epiphany Lutheran, Pearland, Texas
- Free spiritual growth inventory for individuals or ministry teams.
- A Team Assessment tool used by the Methodist church, providing excellent questions for team members to be asking as they assess their ministry together.
- A site for business teams which offers insights on team building and team assessment.
- The Equipper is a site which helps churches equip their volunteers for service.
Postmodern
- Preaching Plus - sermon helps by Leonard Sweet for preaching to a post-modern generation
Staffing
- Preparing for a Behavioral Interview -- A brief description of behavioral interviewing and helpful information on preparing for such an interview.
- The Effects of Behavioral Interviewing -- Focuses on developing a behavioral interview and provides an example of questions that might be used in an interview.
- Interview Resource for Boards and Call Committees -- The Northern Illinois District LCMS provides excellent information about Behavioral Interviewing including Do s and Don ts. Additionally, there are guidelines for interviewing for teacher positions and administrator positions.
Urban
- Transforming the City - Twenty-five urban experts ask: What does it take to be effective in urban ministry? How do we communicate what we know about urban ministry?
- Urban Cross-Cultural Church Planting Models
Your Partner in Success
If we might assist you in any way, please email us or phone us at 734-648-0185.
These web sites have information and products that may be of help in outreach, although the Center for U.S. Missions does not necessarily endorse all the theology/viewpoints contained in these sites.
Click topic titles below for a list of links for each.
Church Planting
- MisLinks: An excellent link that displays numerous links to other mission sites. A quality site!
- Barna Group: Research helpful for church planting and ministry decisions
- Visions: Demography for churches
- U.S. Census Bureau: Population research and statistics
- Church Multiplication Center: Techniques, training and resources for multiplying and reproducing churches through equipping and empowering planters, pastors, spouses, and leaders.
- Church Planting links provides a plethora of web links for help in the area of church planting.
- Top Five - Lou Jander, MMF Texas district, recommends this site for Mission Planters. It provides the top 5 products, services, and ideas for church planters. It includes a lot of helpful information.
- Dynamic Church Planting: Paul Becker, Dynamic Church Planting International
- North Coast Training Network - Starting A Video Venue
- Congregations Reach Beyond Church For New Disciples - Leaders say the church must look to opportunities and needs of the marginalized
- Each Church Start a New Church - The United Methodist Church of the Philippines
- New Church Network [website] [blog]- New Church Network has the goal of starting 30 new Lutheran Churches in the Greater St. Louis metro area by providing strategic coordination, peer review, and multiplication funding for effective church starts.
Ethnic and Cross-Cultural
- Pentecost2000: Special effort of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod to plant 1000 new culture-specific ministries before 2002. Opportunity to contact various ministry sites and learn how the ministry started and is progressing
- Ethnic Harvest: This is an excellent site for ethnic/culture-specific ministries. It is filled with resources, articles, statistics, ministry helps and other links. You will be able to find out the ethnic makeup of your neighborhood on this web site.
Evangelism
- New Way: A place to find communication strategies to reach a target population with the Gospel.
- Brigada - Evangelism tools and ideas online:
- Evangelism and the internet
- Lutheran Evangelism Association
- The Lutheran Hour
- New Church Specialities
- Missions International, the home page for SG2, small group training geared to help reach the unchurched. This training is offered through the Center and is called Groups Ablaze.
- Outreach - Excellent evangelism resources
- Oswald Hoffmann School of Christian Outreach - loaded with Evangelism resources
- Fish the Net - links to sites on the net dealing with evangelism
- Friendship Ablaze! - a wealth of material for a friendship evangelism emphasis
- The Charthouse developed the Fish philosophy and produces the popular Fish video that helps organizations focus on engaging and serving the customer.
General Information
- ChurchSmart.com
- Christianity Today: Articles on contemporary Christian issues
- Pastors.com: Rick Warren's site from Saddleback Community Church. Numerous resources for the pastor.
- Lutherans Online: Resources for Lutherans
- William D. Carey Library
- The Hartford Institute for Religious Research has the results of numerous studies they have done on congregations and religious issues.
- Christian Cyclopedia online
- American Religious Data Archive, helpful demographic data
- Olive Tree Bible software - free Bible software with numerous translations and search capabilities.
- Ecunet - The oldest (15 years) Christian Online chat room
- Internet Christian Library - A wealth of Christian literature from the patristic era to the present; Bible studies, devotional, books, newsletters and much more.
- Adherents - A site to answer questions such as "How many Lutherans live in Florida?", "What are the major religions of India?" or "What percentage of the world is Muslim?"
- Glenmary - denominational statistics. Note that some statistics are more current than others.
Healthy Churches
- 5 Guiding Principles for Effective Ministry Teams an article on effective ministry teams
- The Path To Effective Ministry - an article using 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 on a personal path to effective ministry for Christians.
Leadership
- Church Champions: on the Leadership Network site
- Center for Creative Leadership - A helpful tool for leadership in the secular world
- Leadership Journal - An excellent site on leadership provided by Christianity Today.
- Smart Leadership - A secular site developed to leadership with many helpful insights into what makes a good leader.
- Easum, Bandy and associates -- Coaching church leaders for ministry in a pre-Christian world.
Mobilizing Members for Missions
- Ministry Tools Resource Center is a site loaded with helps for discovering your spiritual gifts and your ministry potential. It provides books, resources, links and even a free spiritual gifts inventory that you can take on site. A non-denominational site--be your own judge of the materials offered.
- Energize, Inc. is a comprehensive site for those who lead or manage volunteers in non-profit organizations -- resources, library, conversations, etc.
- The "Uniquely You" discovery tools combine spiritual gifts and personality (DiSC).
- This church has volunteer job descriptions on the internet: Epiphany Lutheran, Pearland, Texas
- Free spiritual growth inventory for individuals or ministry teams.
- A Team Assessment tool used by the Methodist church, providing excellent questions for team members to be asking as they assess their ministry together.
- A site for business teams which offers insights on team building and team assessment.
- The Equipper is a site which helps churches equip their volunteers for service.
Postmodern
- Preaching Plus - sermon helps by Leonard Sweet for preaching to a post-modern generation
Staffing
- Preparing for a Behavioral Interview -- A brief description of behavioral interviewing and helpful information on preparing for such an interview.
- The Effects of Behavioral Interviewing -- Focuses on developing a behavioral interview and provides an example of questions that might be used in an interview.
- Interview Resource for Boards and Call Committees -- The Northern Illinois District LCMS provides excellent information about Behavioral Interviewing including Do s and Don ts. Additionally, there are guidelines for interviewing for teacher positions and administrator positions.
Urban
- Transforming the City - Twenty-five urban experts ask: What does it take to be effective in urban ministry? How do we communicate what we know about urban ministry?
- Urban Cross-Cultural Church Planting Models
Your Partner in Success
If we might assist you in any way, please email us or phone us at 734-648-0185.
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