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  • Audiobook

    Taking Your Parish From Good to Great: Best Practices in Parish Management

    by Charles Zech ...
    Narrated by Charles Zech ...
    Series series Learn25: Religion

    Unabridged

    4 hours 51 min

    How many parishes do you know of that are truly great?In his book Good to Great, Jim Collins makes the point that good is the enemy of great. What does a great parish look like? Obviously it nurtures the spirituality of its parishioners, but it must do more than that. To be truly great, a parish must also have the temporal side in order. It must be a welcoming, community building place where ... Read more

    $17.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plain Talk about Churches and Money

    by Patrick McNamara, Dean Hoge, Charles Zech ...
    Series series Money, Faith and Lifestyle
    Based on extensive research, this volume offers insight and help on the key fiscal topics confronting church leaders today, including: Why is the church so uneasy with the topic of money? Is there a difference between stewardship and fundraising? How can we motivate giving? Should we invest church funds? It tackles the resistance, fears, and difficulties about money common in congregations. The ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Creativity in Church Management

    Entrepreneurship for a 21st-Century Parish

    by Zech, Charles E. ...
    As an adjunct to the Best Practices in Church Management Series, Creativity in Church Management covers a number of topics that, while important, do not warrant their own volumes in the series. Topics include co-responsibility, managing parish diversity, and issues surrounding parish reconfiguration and consolidation. ... Read more

    $19.96 USD

  • Catholic Parishes of the 21st Century

    by Charles E. Zech, Mary L. Gautier, Mark M. Gray, Jonathon L. Wiggins, Thomas P. Gaunt ...
    A seminal moment in the study of U.S. Catholic parish life came in the 1980s with the publication of a series of reports from the ground-breaking Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life. These reports are now badly outdated, as Catholic dioceses grapple with new challenges that didn't exist in the 80s. Topics that were not considered then, like greater Catholic mobility, increased cultural ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Best Practices in Catholic Church Ministry Performance Management

    by James H. Alphen, Christopher Anderson, Lisa R. Berlinger, David DeLambo, Deacon Justin Green, Daniel Koys, Most Reverend Donald W. Wuerl, Rev. John Beal, Charles E. Zech, Zeni Fox ...
    The Church is not a business, but it does have a stewardship responsibility to ensure that all of its resources are used as effectively as possible to carry out God's work on earth. In the case of human resource assets, good stewardship involves assisting those engaged in ministry (whether clerical or lay) to achieve their greatest potential through the various components of performance management ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Parish Finance

    Best Practices in Church Management

    by Michael J. Castrilli, Charles E. Zech ...
    A practical, accessible guide to help church leaders through the steps needed to ensure an effective, accountable, and transparent financial process in a parish. ... Read more

    $23.96 USD

  • Becoming a Pastoral Parish Council

    A Guide for a Synodal Church

    by Carroll, Patricia ...
    Becoming a Pastoral Parish Council is a basic primer on how a parish council can be set up and organized, and what roles it can play. ... Read more

    $10.02 USD

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    Management Skills for Parish Leadership

    Edited by Paul A. Holmes ...
    Today’s parish leaders are expected to be holy and prayerful spiritual guides, great preachers and compassionate confessors, but also to make important decisions in key areas like finance, budgeting, hiring and firing, fundraising, risk management, relationship-building, and more—often with virtually no transition or training. And with all the requisite education in philosophy and theology they ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Reclaiming Vatican II

    What It (Really) Said, What It Means, and How It Calls Us to Renew the Church

    by Fr. Blake Britton ...
    Winner of a first-place award for a first time author and second-place in popular presentation of the faith from the Catholic Media Association.During the past five decades, the Second Vatican Council has been alternately celebrated or maligned for its supposed break with tradition and embrace of the modern world. But what if we’ve gotten it all wrong? Have Catholics—both those who embrace the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Back from the Dead

    The Book of Congregational Growth

    by Gerald W. Keucher ...
    Almost everywhere throughout the greater church are unsustainable trends-endowments are being depleted, building maintenance deferred, congregations are aging and dwindling, and budgets are too far out-of-whack. And although there is much literature on what to do to grow congregations, little has been said about how to get those things done.In highly accessible, anecdotal prose, church management ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forming a Community of Faith

    A Guide to Success in Adult Faith Formation today

    by Jane E. Regan ...
    Some of the most important people in faith formation are often overlooked: adults. But how can parishes engage people living in a postmodern world—people who consider themselves “spiritual but not religious,” who may be suspicious of large institutions, and whose experiences and worldviews are as diverse as our parishes themselves? Nationally recognized educator Jane Regan offers a bold yet ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Understanding the Ordinariate

    Catholics of the Anglican Patrimony

    by Fr Edward Tomlinson ...
    In 2009 Pope Benedict XVI formally responded to petitions for closer unity from many of the Anglican patrimony. Thus, the Personal Ordinariates were created - a new space within the Latin Rite in which the Anglican tradition may flourish: no longer in separation from Rome but now in unity with it. Common questions asked about the Ordinariate are answered here, explaining the different Ordinariates ... Read more

    $4.89 USD