Guidelines Church Historian: Remember the Past and Inspire the Future
Ebook
Overview
You have been asked to be your church’s historian, or you have just found a box of old records. What do you keep? How do you store the materials? How do you preserve them? What good is all this? As part of celebrating you church’s anniversary, you want to write a history of your church. How do you start? Some of your church’s leaders are aging. You want to record their memories. How do you prepare to interview them and what do you ask? This Guideline offers some answers and suggested ways to get more help.
This is one of the twenty-six Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2017-2020 that cover church leadership areas including Church Council and Small Membership Church; the administrative areas of Finance and Trustees; and ministry areas focused on nurture, outreach, and witness including Worship, Evangelism, Stewardship, Christian Education, age-level ministries, Communications, and more.
Prepare leaders for their ministry roles.
Focuses on the work of the Church Historian Team.
Looks at the biblical and theological found the ministry area.
Provides a description of each area along with How-to information.
Bibliography/resource list and contact information for boards and agencies
Examples of forms and records used for each ministry area in each booklet.
Helps foster inclusiveness within the church and beyond.
Help new leaders understand their job, get organized, get started, and confidently lead.
Provide new and emerging leaders with the practical help they need to succeed in their ministry.
Help maintain consistent leadership from year to year.
Connect all the laity leaders with the spiritual dimensions of their ministry, while living their faith.
Product Details
- Title : Guidelines Church Historian: Remember the Past and Inspire the Future
- Author: Commission, General on Archives and History
- Publisher: Abingdon Press
- Publication Date: 2016
- ISBN: 9781501830341