Designing Adult Services

Designing Adult Services
Author: Ann Roberts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440852553

Focusing on adult patrons ages 19 through senior citizens, this book explains how libraries can best serve this portion of their community's population at different life stages and foster experiences that are "worth the trip"—whether actual or virtual. Adult library patrons are busier than ever before—working, taking classes and studying for advanced degrees, caring for children, helping their aging parents, taking care of their homes or rental properties, planning and nurturing careers, managing investments and retirement funds, and inevitably retiring. Each of these endeavors can require highly specific learning and education. Throughout their lives, adults continue to have different information needs that the library and its services can fill. Designing Adult Services: Strategies for Better Serving Your Community discusses the many ways libraries can serve adults of various ages and at different life stages, covering online services, collection development, programming, and lifelong learning. This guide's unique approach simplifies the processes of designing and carrying out a successful adult services program for adult library users in all the various stages of life. The book is organized by age groups, with the respective information needs and life challenges. Each chapter suggests programs, services, and collection development strategies for the life stages. Public library administrators and managers as well as adult services librarians in public libraries will find this guide a must-read.

The Happy Expat

The Happy Expat
Author: Ann Hoffman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2015-09-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781628652277

The Epistles to the Colossians, to Philemon, and to the Ephesians

The Epistles to the Colossians, to Philemon, and to the Ephesians
Author: F. F. Bruce
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 478
Release: 1984-10-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802825100

F.F. Bruce's study of the Epistles to the Colossians, to Philemon, and to the Ephesians constitute a single volume in The New International Commentary on the New Testament. Prepared by some of the world's leading scholars, the series provides an exposition of the New Testament books that is thorough and scholarly while faithful to the infallible Word of God.

Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon

Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon
Author: Clinton E. Arnold
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2016-04-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310530229

Brimming with lavish, full-color photos and graphics, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary walks you verse by verse through all the books of the New Testament. It’s like slipping on a set of glasses that lets you read the Bible through the eyes of a first-century reader! Discoveries await you that will snap the world of the New Testament into gripping immediacy. Things that seem mystifying, puzzling, or obscure will take on tremendous meaning when you view them in their ancient context. You’ll deepen your understanding of the teachings of Jesus. You’ll discover the close, sometimes startling interplay between God’s kingdom and the practical affairs of the church. Best of all, you’ll gain a deepened awareness of the Bible’s relevance for your life. Written in a clear, engaging style, this beautiful set provides a new and accessible approach that more technical expository and exegetical commentaries don’t offer.

Ephesians and Colossians (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)

Ephesians and Colossians (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)
Author: Charles H. Talbert
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441206590

Ephesians and Colossians is the first of eighteen volumes in the new Paideia commentary series. This series approaches each text in its final, canonical form, proceeding by sense units rather than word-by-word or verse-by-verse. Each sense unit is explored in three sections: (1) introductory matters, (2) tracing the train of thought, (3) key hermeneutical and theological questions. The commentaries shed fresh light on the text while avoiding idiosyncratic readings, attend to theological meaning without presuming a specific theological stance in the reader, and show how the text uses narrative and rhetorical strategies from the ancient educational context to form and shape the reader. Professors, graduate and seminary students, and pastors will benefit from this readable commentary, as will theological libraries.

The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget

The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget
Author: Suzan Haskins
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-03-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118758595

Achieve your dream of retiring abroad while on a budget The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget provides a detailed guide to one of the least-known but most effective retirement strategies in today's chaotic economic environment: retiring abroad. The premise is simple: Enjoy a happier, healthier, more fulfilling retirement than you could possibly afford in the U.S. or Canada by finding the right overseas retirement haven. The book reveals those affordable havens and the strategies for successfully making the move that could save your retirement. Aimed at retirees and near-retirees in the U.S. and Canada, this book's strategies apply just as well to younger people and people with families who are looking for ways to improve their quality of life while at the same time lowering their cost of living. It includes solutions for the challenges of continuing to work and earn money abroad, too. As long-time contributors to the acknowledged leader in the field, International Living, authors Suzan Haskins and Dan Prescher have at their disposal more than thirty years of International Living experience and expertise in the topic. They've been writing about living overseas for more than 12 years and have created their own broad and deep body of work, including regular blogs on the topic for Huffington Post and AARP. The authors include information and strategies that can be successfully applied by anyone regardless of their political or economic opinions. For anyone who wants a happier, healthier, more affordable life, The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget shows you how to enjoy the romance and excitement of living abroad on an affordable budget.

Encountering Missionary Life and Work (Encountering Mission)

Encountering Missionary Life and Work (Encountering Mission)
Author: Tom Steffen
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2008-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441211276

This new volume in the award-winning Encountering Mission series is for current and future missionaries. It provides practical guidance regarding getting ready for the mission field and the realities of life on the field. The authors are well qualified to write such a manual, each having served as a missionary for more than twenty years and each having taught missions in seminary. The authors begin by examining the contemporary context for missions, including the recognition that the world's mission fields are in constant and often rapid change. They then discuss aspects of preparing oneself for the mission field, beginning with home-front preparations and moving to on-the-field preparations. The final section deals with practical issues and challenges of missionary life.

Marriage Is

Marriage Is
Author: Andrew T. Walker
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433688735

Marriage is not up for debate; marriage simply is. Today the meaning and purpose of marriage has been lost, and it is our fault. The prevalence of pornography, divorce, pre-marital sex, cohabitation, infidelity, and a thousand other mistakes have blurred our vision of God’s plan for sex, family, and society to the point of blindness. The task before us is not merely to argue against the lie of same-sex marriage. Though that it is necessary, ours is a much larger project. It is time to restore among our people a sense of the profound beauty, mystery, and holiness of faithful marital love. It is time to recognize the time for defending the institution of marriage has passed. Sadly, for far too many, the marriages they know are not worth defending. Instead, Christians must take up the mission to renew and rebuild a culture that values marriage and family. To do so, we must first understand what marriage is and why it matters.

Genesis

Genesis
Author: Andrew E. Steinmann
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830894756

Genesis is a book of origins: of the world, of sin, of God's promise of redemption, and of the people of Israel. It serves as a foundation for the New Testament's teaching that Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promise to humankind. In this Tyndale Commentary, Andrew Steinmann offers a thorough exegetical commentary on Genesis, including a reconstructed timeline of events from Abraham's life through to the death of Joseph.

Introduction to Global Missions

Introduction to Global Missions
Author: Zane Pratt
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433678756

Comprehensive treatment of the biblical foundation and unique purpose of global missions.