Visiting in an Age of Mission: A Handbook for Person-to-Person Ministry - Softcover

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KENNON L. CALLAHAN, ??researcher, professor, and pastor?is one of today's most sought-after church consultants. He has worked with thousands of congregations around the world and has helped tens of thousands of church leaders and pastors through his dynamic workshops and seminars. Author of many books, he is best known for his groundbreaking study Twelve Keys to an Effective Church, which has formed the basis for the Mission Growth Movement, a widely acclaimed program for church renewal. Callahan has earned the B.A., M.Div., S.T.M., and Ph.D. degrees. His doctorate is in Systematic Theology. He has served both rural and urban congregations in Ohio, Texas, and Georgia and taught for many years at Emory University. Ken and his wife of over forty years, Julie, have two children, Ken and Mike, and three grandchildren, Blake, Mason, and Brice. They enjoy the outdoors, hiking, horseback riding, and camping.

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In his classic work Twelve Keys to an Effective Church, Kennon Callahan highlights the critical role visiting plays in a congregationÕs ministry—a role that has grown even more important in an age when so many do not participate in the life of the church. Here he presents a full-length practical guide to visiting, both within the congregation and in the community at large. "A visit is a sign of hope and promise. As you visit, you share the good news. People take hope. They discover life has promise. They know someone cares--deeply--for them."

He organizes the book into five steps that will help you grow in your visiting:

• Discovering those whom God is inviting you to visit
• Choosing your ways of visiting
• Deciding the best timing
• Growing your gifts for visiting
• Building your mission

Finally Callahan provides invaluable lessons on how we can develop our own gifts and graces for visiting. Through pragmatic exercises and sample dialog, he teaches us not only how to help persons with their specific hurts and hopes, but also how to build friendships and share the joy and caring of God's mission.

"Let our visiting be like a sacrament. Let our visiting be a sign of grace, of compassion, of community, of hope. Let us run with unflinching purpose the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus." —Kennon Callahan, Visiting in an Age of Mission

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In his classic work Twelve Keys to an Effective Church, Kennon Callahan highlights the critical role visiting plays in a congregation?s ministry a role that has grown even more important in an age when so many do not participate in the life of the church. Here he presents a full-length practical guide to visiting, both within the congregation and in the community at large. "A visit is a sign of hope and promise. As you visit, you share the good news. People take hope. They discover life has promise. They know someone cares--deeply--for them.
"He organizes the book into five steps that will help you grow in your visiting:

• Discovering those whom God is inviting you to visit
• Choosing your ways of visitingDeciding the best timing
• Growing your gifts for visiting
• Building your mission

Finally Callahan provides invaluable lessons on how we can develop our own gifts and graces for visiting. Through pragmatic exercises and sample dialog, he teaches us not only how to help persons with their specific hurts and hopes, but also how to build friAndships and share the joy and caring of God's mission.

"Let our visiting be like a sacrament. Let our visiting be a sign of grace, of compassion, of community, of hope. Let us run with unflinching purpose the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus." Kennon Callahan, Visiting in an Age of Mission