The Shepherd’s Toolbox: Advancing Your Church’s Shepherding Ministry

by Timothy Z. Witmer

Publisher:

P&R

, 2023

Overview

In The Shepherd Leader, pastor and professor Tim Witmer laid out seven elements of an effective shepherding plan, showing church leaders how to minister to their congregations in practical, pastoral ways. Now, in this standalone but complementary volume, he gathers seven church leaders to show how they and their churches have addressed specific challenges in innovative ways. How do you adapt a shepherding plan to a large congregation? How do you fine-tune or revise plans that aren’t working? How do pastors get reluctant elders on board? How do male leaders make sure the women of the congregation are receiving adequate care? Randy Schlichting, Bijan Mirtolooi, John Barrett, Ken Jones, Mark Hallock, Gary Smith, and Sue Harris contribute.

Key Features

• Gathers seven church leaders to show how they and their churches have addressed specific challenges in innovative ways
• Addresses common ministry questions and challenges
• Serves as a complementary volume to The Shepherd Leader

Product Details

• Title: The Shepherd’s Toolbox: Advancing Your Church’s Shepherding Ministry
• Author: Timothy Z. Witmer
• Publisher: P&R
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 147
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Christian leadership
• ISBNs: 9781629955315, 9781629955346, 1629955310, 1629955345
• Resource ID: LLS:SHPHRDSTLMNSTRY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-05-05T15:07:44Z

About Timothy Z. Witmer

Timothy Z. Witmer, MDiv, DMin is Professor of Practical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary where he serves as Coordinator of the Practical Theology Department and Director of Mentored Ministry and Master of Divinity Programs. He has also served for thirty-five years in pastoral ministry, currently as the pastor of St. Stephen Reformed Church. Tim is the author of Mindscape: What to Think about Instead of Worrying, The Shepherd Leader, and The Shepherd Leader at Home. He and his wife, Barbara, have three children, four grandchildren, and reside in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.