Rock-Solid Volunteers

Rock-Solid Volunteers
Author: Larry Fowler
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441266259

Children's pastors and ministry leaders consistently point to recruiting and retaining dedicated volunteers as their number-one challenge. How can they keep volunteer workers engaged in ministry that will change people's lives? Larry Fowler, director of program and training for Awana Clubs International, believes that there are seven biblical principles, drawn from the book of Nehemiah, that will help pastors and leaders more effectively motivate and manage volunteers. Rock-Solid Volunteers looks at the obstacles Nehemiah and his volunteer workers faced: fatigue, weakness, loss of vision, peer pressure, and opposition, just for starters! He examines the seven steps Nehemiah took to lead his volunteers to success. Pastors and ministry leaders will be equipped to attract, inspire, and keep talented, committed volunteers, no matter the challenge!

Rock-Solid Children's Ministry

Rock-Solid Children's Ministry
Author: Larry Fowler
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441266232

How Do We Measure Success in Our Ministry to Kids? In children's ministry, the essence of what we do is to impact the immeasurable--the heart of a child. While Bible knowledge is highly valuable in this endeavor, knowing Scripture does not automatically translate to changing the heart of a child. Practical application is also desirable, but changing behavior can be done without a heart change. Relating Scripture in such a way that it meets a child where he or she is at is critical, but as an approach, it may fail to build a solid enough foundation to equip children for the challenges that they will face later in life. All three approaches must be synergized to have a greater impact, and all three must be retargeted at the "bull's eye"--the heart of a child. Read this book to discover the seven standards of a rock-solid children's ministry!

Volunteers:

Volunteers:
Author: Ricardo Miller
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2016-02-23
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1514458071

Volunteers: How to Get Them, How to Keep Them Your Coaching Guide to Recruiting and Retaining Them For most children’s ministries, attracting new volunteers and getting your existing volunteers to remain is a never-ending task. It is often rooted in inefficient recruiting practices, misunderstood motivational techniques, inadequate training, and high-volunteer turnover. The results: low productivity and poor performance, unhappy volunteers, and endless leadership headaches. Volunteers: How to get Them, How to keep Them offers creative approaches to effectively recruit long-lasting volunteers. And the best part? These powerful principles work! Each is presented in a bite-sized package that allows instant execution. You don’t have to invent any new step-by-step methods, concepts, or buzz words to do it! Just follow some of Ricardo’s practical wisdom keys to building an eager, willing, and fervently driven team.

Rock Solid

Rock Solid
Author: Carolyn Muir Helfenstein
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2018-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146029419X

When James is hired by the Duke of Dorchester to deliver a young Arab stallion to the colony of Newfoundland in the year 1800, he and the duke’s daughter, Alicia, realize this is a perfect opportunity for them to escape together to the New World. They would cross the sea, James would deliver the young horse to a Mr. Penney who lived on Bell Island, and then, they would be free to live their lives as husband and wife. Nothing could stop them, they thought. But their ship, the Hindsight cannot withstand the unrelenting waves of an Atlantic storm near the Newfoundland coastline. It slips beneath the surface. James and Alicia are tied to each other and to the leads they had secured around their Arab stallion. Bred to meet any challenge, he surges onward to an unknown shore. Alicia however, gives in to the ice-cold sea. James catches sight of a single light, flickering in the distance. The young black stallion senses shore and is able to scramble up on a rocky beach. Out of the darkness come two Newfoundlanders. Knowing the secrets to outsmart Poseidon’s deadly hand, Ted and Marion Martin get to work. Equally important and pivotal to the entire saga is the lonely Mr. Robert Penney. Overwhelmed with joy when James delivers the young stallion to his doorstep, Mr. Penney offers James, Alicia and their two Newfoundland friends an opportunity that sweeps Rock Solid through the next fifty years of true-to-life Newfoundland history. Helfenstein’s tale has been taken from the research she absorbed while in search of her own Newfoundland identity.

Rock Solid

Rock Solid
Author: Riley Hart
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-04-27
Genre: Construction industry
ISBN: 9781511725453

Sober for thirteen months, Trevor Dison is determined to do the right thing: rebuild his relationship with his family, and help his brother get Rock Solid Construction off the ground. Too bad the first estimate Trevor goes on alone is for an uptight doctor with a superiority complex. A hand injury took away the only important thing in Dr. Simon Malone's life: performing heart surgery. Now he doesn't know who he is. When Trevor and Simon form an unlikely friendship, Trevor starts wondering if maybe Simon's not as straight-- or uptight-- as he thought. They have little in common, yet there's something about each other that they just can't shake.

Rock Solid

Rock Solid
Author: John Cameron
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1475954190

Want to know how to build a great company? Then buy and read Rock Solid. Not only will it help you lay a firm foundation, it will help you build a future that will be rock solid and sound. Isn't that what we all want? -Peter Legge, OBS, LL.D (HON), D. Tech. Chairman/CEO-Canada Wide Media Limited If you're in business and you'd like to build a strong company then Rock Solid-How to Strengthen Your Company was written with you in mind. It is a practical, how to guide for achieving success in business. It's packed full of down to earth, common sense advice and innovative new concepts that were born and raised in the trenches of small business. Rock Solid delivers ideas that genuinely work in today's business world. If you aren't getting business results you want or you plan to grow your business then this book will be an extraordinarily interesting read. Rock Solid is a fable that follows Jen Russell's journey as she discovers and documents the Company Strength Program developed by Mark McKinley a savvy, community minded business veteran who now lives in a rest home.

The LAST Virtual Volunteering Guidebook

The LAST Virtual Volunteering Guidebook
Author: Jayne Cravens
Publisher: Energize, Inc.
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2014-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 094057666X

What is virtual volunteering? It’s work done by volunteers online, via computers, smartphones or other hand-held devices, and often from afar. More and more organizations around the world are engaging people who want to contribute their skills via the Internet. The service may be done virtually, but the volunteers are real! In The LAST Virtual Volunteering Guidebook, international volunteerism consultants Jayne Cravens and Susan J. Ellis emphasize that online service should be integrated into an organization’s overall strategy for involving volunteers. They maintain that the basic principles of volunteer management should apply equally to volunteers working online or onsite. Whether you’re tech-savvy or still a newbie in cyberspace, this book will show you how to lead online volunteers successfully by: -Overcoming resistance to online volunteer service and the myths surrounding it; -Designing virtual volunteering assignments, from micro-volunteering to long-term projects, from Web research to working directly with clients via the Internet; -Adding a virtual component to any volunteer’s service; -Interviewing and screening online volunteers; -Managing risk and protecting confidentiality in online interactions; -Creating online communities for volunteers; -Offering orientation and training via Internet tools; -Recruiting new volunteers successfully through the Web and social media; and -Assuring accessibility and diversity among online volunteers. Cravens and Ellis fervently believe that future volunteer management practitioners will automatically incorporate online service into community engagement, making this book the last virtual volunteering guidebook that anyone has to write!

Joan Garry's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership

Joan Garry's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership
Author: Joan Garry
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119293065

Nonprofit leadership is messy Nonprofits leaders are optimistic by nature. They believe with time, energy, smarts, strategy and sheer will, they can change the world. But as staff or board leader, you know nonprofits present unique challenges. Too many cooks, not enough money, an abundance of passion. It’s enough to make you feel overwhelmed and alone. The people you help need you to be successful. But there are so many obstacles: a micromanaging board that doesn’t understand its true role; insufficient fundraising and donors who make unreasonable demands; unclear and inconsistent messaging and marketing; a leader who’s a star in her sector but a difficult boss… And yet, many nonprofits do thrive. Joan Garry’s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership will show you how to do just that. Funny, honest, intensely actionable, and based on her decades of experience, this is the book Joan Garry wishes she had when she led GLAAD out of a financial crisis in 1997. Joan will teach you how to: Build a powerhouse board Create an impressive and sustainable fundraising program Become seen as a ‘workplace of choice’ Be a compelling public face of your nonprofit This book will renew your passion for your mission and organization, and help you make a bigger difference in the world.

The Physics of God

The Physics of God
Author: Joseph Selbie
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1632658968

Setting aside the pervasive material bias of science and lifting the obscuring fog of religious sectarianism reveals a surprisingly clear unity of science and religion. The explanations of transcendent phenomena given by saints, sages, and near-death experiencers—miracles, immortality, heaven, God, and transcendent awareness—are fully congruent with scientific discoveries in the fields of relativity, quantum physics, medicine, M-theory, neuroscience, and quantum biology. The Physics of God describes the intersections of science and religion with colorful, easy-to-understand metaphors, making abstruse subjects within both science and religion easily accessible to the layman—no math, no dogma. This intriguing book: Pulls back the curtain on the light-show illusion we call matter. Connects string theory’s hidden brane worlds to religion’s transcendent heavens. Reveals the scientific secret of life and immortality: quantum biology’s startling discovery that the human body is continuously entangled. Demonstrates the miracle-making power of our minds to effect instantaneous physiological changes. Explains how the intelligent observer effect confirms our high spiritual potential. Compelling and concise, The Physics of God will make you believe in the unity of science and religion and eager to experience the personal transcendence that is the promise of both.

Anthropological Optimism

Anthropological Optimism
Author: Anna J. Willow
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2023-04-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000852695

This book theorizes the roles of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out to explore optimism’s origins and implications, its conceptual and practical value, and its capacity to contribute to contemporary anthropological aims. In an era of extensive ecological disruption and social distress, this volume contemplates how an optimistic anthropology can energize the discipline while also contributing to bettering the lives, communities, and environments of those we study. It brings together scholars diverse in background, career stage, and theoretical approach in a collective attempt to comprehend the myriad intersections of anthropology and optimism. The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have recently underscored the larger, longer-term catastrophes of climate change, ecosystemic collapse, social injustice, and antipathy toward scientific knowledge and those who produce it. In this context, exceedingly few anthropologists feel comfortable observing and documenting passively while their research communities face unrelenting waves of (un)natural disasters. We need to act. But we also need to hope. Discontent with the state of the world and cultural anthropology’s turn to increasingly positive, future-oriented, and engaged work have converged to unleash a courageously optimistic anthropology. This book is a timely springboard for this impactful and emergent approach.