Recommended Resources
Summer 2012
This summer, encourage your church to participate in mission work. Even in your Bible Studies and Sunday School classes, you can use curricula that connects mission work to scripture and inspires your congregation to be the hands and feet of Jesus in the world. See the recommended resources below to assist in building your missional church. To search all of our resources, click on the Catalog link on the right.
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Resources for Adults
Change the World
United Methodist pastor Mike Slaughter invites churches into the world to live out the message and mission of Jesus. These DVD studies for small groups or church leadership teams link Bible study to service projects and challenge participants to become missional leaders as the scriptures command. The small group resource is 6 sessions and includes a DVD, leader’s guide, and participant book. The resource for leadership teams is 4 sessions and includes the DVD and a leader’s guide. Participants are encouraged to read the book that serves as the basis for the study.
BK745 Change the World: Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus
DVD382 Change the World: Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus
DVD384 Change the World: A Study for Leadership Teams
Servant or Sucker
Learn the truth about poverty and homelessness from those directly involved and form Christ-centered responses in these five sessions. A leader’s guide is included.
DVD256 Servant or Sucker: Wise and Compassionate Ways to Help the Poor
Resources for Youth
Peace DVD: Especially for Youth
This 6-session DVD study for youth looks at peace with God, community, the Earth, service, and nation. Each session includes scripture, discussion questions, activities, and assignments that encourage youth to explore the concept of peace and bring it into the world.
DVD184 Peace DVD: Especially for Youth
Mission Mania
These books are excellent for anyone planning to start or recharge a mission program with youth. Along with introductory materials, the leader’s guide includes complete mission plans for in-class, on-the-go, weekends, and retreats plus an additional 100 mission ideas. An example of the participant’s journal is included.
BK143 Mission Mania: A Can-Do Guide for Youth, Leader’s Guide
BK144 Mission Mania: Crazy to Serve: Youth Booklet
Ready to Go: Missions
This book is a great guide to missions to use in the summer. After the introduction, the book includes complete plans for 6 missions that take 1-3 days and 6 other missions that take 5 or more days. The plans include scripture, a description of the project, cost, ideas for congregational support, preparation, schedules, and follow-up. The book also includes reproducibles and a list of organizations recommended by Abingdon Press as partners for your missions.
BK488 Ready to Go: Missions
Resources for Children
Heifer International Global Education Resource Kits
Heifer International donated four global education resource kits to the Media Center. Each kit is for a different age group and introduces the participants to children who are climbing out of poverty in another part of the world. The kits include lesson plans, action ideas, DVD documentaries, field trip opportunities, donation envelopes, maps, posters, and a children’s book.
KIT115 Heifer International Global Education Resource Kit – For pre-K to K
KIT116 Heifer International Global Education Resource Kit – For 1st and 2nd Grades
KIT117 Heifer International Global Education Resource Kit – For 3rd and 4th Grades
KIT118 Heifer International Global Education Resource Kit – For 5th and 6th Grades
Raising Children to Love Their Neighbors
This book from Abingdon Press includes everything a church needs to teach children to obey the greatest commandment. After an introduction and vision statement grounded in scripture, the book includes training sessions for teachers, service projects for preschoolers, a curriculum for each grade of elementary school, and a workshop for parents. The book even includes ways to involve the whole congregation.
BK538 Raising Children to Love Their Neighbors
PowerXPress: Peacemakers
The PowerXPress curriculum from Abingdon Press is designed for rotational Sunday School teaching, although the lessons can be used in any children’s groups. Rotational teaching sets up stations with different teachers that the children rotate through each week. The stations are: Art, Computer, Cooking, Game, Music, Science, Storytelling, and Video. This Peacemakers unit examines the role of peace and justice in the biblical stories of Jacob and Esau, Amos, Abigail and David, and the Beatitudes. The participants will learn about and commit to peacemaking.
KIT104 PowerXPress: Peacemakers
