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Quick Start Guide
Not sure where to begin? We've organized our resources into these easy-to-use categories.

Ministry Planning
Research, background information, reviews, and the latest ideas for designing your programs.

Ready Resources
Material that's ready for you to take into the classroom, group setting, or worship.

Enhancing Leadership Skills
Are you the most effective leader you can be? We can help bring your leadership to its full potential.

Strengthening Your Church
Programs that help you evaluate and empower your entire ministry.

Primary Resources
A series of handbooks of ideas for leaders in every area of ministry.

Church Vitality Indicator
Understanding and building on your church's strengths.

The Upper Room daily devotional guide
The daily devotional can be the centerpiece of small-group practice.

Know These First
Everyone should have an understanding of these basics that form us as United Methodists

Practices of Wesleyan Discipleship
Explore how to live as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. We learn about God's grace, which is the character of the divine-human relationship, and we learn the basic practices God has given us to draw us to Christ.

What We BelieveQué Creemos
Excerpts from The United Methodist Book of Discipline (courtesy United Methodist Communications)

Baptism
By Water & The Spirit
A United Methodist understanding of baptism.

Communion
This Holy MysteryEste misterio santo (pdf)
An invitation for study, conversation, and sharing around this sacrament.

Teaching the Basics of Christian Discipleship

Online resources, books and more


 
2008 Christian Home Month: Families Called to Hope

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Registrations are now being accepted for
Burning Bush 1,
October 9-12, 2008

Nashville, TN

Built around the dramatic appearance of God to Moses in the Exodus story, Burning Bush is the core curriculum of Discipleship University.


Planning Calendar

Trinity Sunday
Peace with Justice Sunday
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Second Sunday After Pentecost
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Memorial Day
Monday, May 26, 2008

Third Sunday After Pentecost
Sunday, June 1, 2008

SEE ALL PLANNING RESOURCES


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Hope
Our Longing for Home

By John Indermark

How we long for hope -- a reason to hold on -- in this, an often despairing world!