Leader Resources

OverviewThe church’s greatest discipleship strategy isn’t a new program, but a return to God’s beautiful design: generations learning, serv

OverviewTeam Family® Is Your Year-Round Guide for Intentional Family Ministry Team

OverviewThe Sunday school classroom can be a place where all kinds of challenging behaviors pop up. And when they do, teachers want to feel prepare

OverviewHearing From Jesus Every Day With the ALL-NEW 2026 Jesus-Centered Planner, you’ll hear from Jesus each wee

OverviewWhere Spiritual Conversations Happen Naturally You’ve felt that tug... A friend, co-worker, family member, o

OverviewBabies and toddlers are soaking in the world around them. They're learning about faces and sounds. They're building relationships and learn

OverviewHelp kids learn the books of the Bible! The Hands-On Bible: Books of the Bible Poster Set makes a great addition to every Sunday school roo

OverviewBy Group Publishing We’ve taken 110 of the best devotion ideas from Children’s Ministry Magazine and put them all into one

IntroductionIt's been said that you just can't do children's ministry without crafts. We agree! That's why we've taken 101 of the best

OverviewBy Jake and Melissa Kircher Ministry is such a rewarding experience, but why does it create so much strain on marriages? Jake

OverviewBy Brian Berry Is criticism inevitable in life? Maybe you've asked that question because you're tired of the

OverviewBy Toby Rowe You're excited about the chance to work alongside teenagers on a mission trip. You're energized to see how God challeng

OverviewBy Doug Franklin Every time you walk out of your senior pastor's office, you leave with a sense of bewilderment and confusion. "Did

OverviewThis stuff works. That's because the ideas in this book--hundreds of them—come from people like you: people in the thick of youth mi

OverviewFew teenagers think of slavery as a modern-day issue. It's something they read about in history books-a painful, troubling chapter from the

OverviewSunday School That Works is a dynamic new resource designed specifically to help you strengthen and enrich your Sunday school mini

OverviewBy Mark DeVries and Jeff Dunn-Rankin Today's youth ministry volunteers are clamoring for training, yet many of them won't show up fo

OverviewBy Tony Myles with Doug Franklin Take a look around at the brokenness in this world and its spiritual poverty. Jesus wants to change

OverviewBy Mark Oestreicher with Kami Gilmour Parents are the biggest influence on the lives of teenagers—a fact that research has proved ag

OverviewBy Shawn Harrison When it comes to ministering to gays and lesbians, far too many churches have chosen silence over service, or a re

OverviewLimited Edition Hard Cover Version By Thom and Joani Schultz The church leadership book that wil

OverviewBy Austin Maxheimer and Zach Below What if small group ministries had been invented in 2014... by your local churches? Woul

OverviewBy Group Publishing Humongous Book of Preschool Ideas 2 is the incredible preschool pick-and-choose idea book! Select

IntroductionIn the beginning of class, John created his world. Oh, it didn't turn out looking like the magnificent perfect world that God orig

IntroductionAs Christians, we share a passionate love and a high regard for God's Word. We gather regularly to listen to sermons that explain

OverviewBy Rick Bundschuh Make EVERY sermon memorable! Here's how... Are you hungry for Sunday me

OverviewBy Josh Packard, Ph.D. and Ashleigh Hope They're called The Dones. After devoting a lifetime to their churches, they're walki

OverviewMost pastors don't go into ministry because they love risk management and balancing budgets and writing human resource policies. And yet ea

OverviewEver tried to replace the organ with a keyboard? Change the service time by 30 minutes? Introduce a new ministry? Retire an old one?

OverviewChurch members look to pastors to guide them in their faith and help them merge theology with real life. Of course, that's just the tip

OverviewPreach a sermon? No problem. Choose a theologically-sound Sunday school curriculum? No trouble. Conduct annual performance re

OverviewBy Rick Chromey People today want to connect to God; they crave spirituality. But inside the walls of the church they are getting a

OverviewBy Thom and Joani Schultz "They judge me.""They're just a bunch of hypocrites." "If they're an example of who God is, I

OverviewBy Mark Waltz Updated! Guests in church often decide whether to return or not before service even starts. It's cruc

OverviewBy Rick Rusaw and Eric Swanson Can ordinary people live extraordinary lives? Yes—when those lives are externally focused! T

OverviewBy Rick Lawrence If you're a volunteer in youth ministry, you've likely wondered: "How did I get here?" No matter how you'd normally