Lead the Way God Made You:: Discovering Your Leadership Style in Children's Ministry [Paperback]

Larry Shallenberger (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Group Publishing (CO) (June 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764428233
• ISBN-13: 978-0764428234
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #386,167 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Larry is an associate pastor in Erie, PA.

Larry spent several years working in the field of children's mental health before becoming a pastor.

Larry has contributed to over twenty books related to the spiritual development of children and adults, including the Gold Medallion winning "HandsOn Bible." Larry is a frequent contributor to Children's Ministry Magazine.

Larry is a monthly columnist for www.churchvolunteercentral.com and www.nappaland.com.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lead the Way God Made You, November 8, 2006

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Todd McKeever (Fairfax, Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lead the Way God Made You:: Discovering Your Leadership Style in Children's Ministry (Paperback)

I have always enjoyed books about leadership, giftings, and children's ministry and with this book you get all three of those topics wrapped up into one well written book.

I found that Larry through his descriptions of each type of person that God has made, did a wonderful job of painting a very clear picture of not only team work and what it consist of, but also helps walk you through a self discovery of how God made you and where He would have you fit.

In this realistic look into the many dynamics of children's ministry leadership and where each of us fit Larry goes on to not just help each of us to find who God has made us to be but Larry also guides us into how to recognize who God made others to be and how we can all fit on the team.

I have been a full time children's pastor for 15+ years and really enjoyed reading this book as well as giving it to each of my volunteers. In this book it has everything from simple language to challenging us veterans in children's ministry by building a plan to make our cast (volunteer team) complete.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Witty, creative, and inspirational!, October 21, 2009

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Sarah Kehayias "AckSar5209" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lead the Way God Made You:: Discovering Your Leadership Style in Children's Ministry (Paperback)

I read this book a few years ago and loved it so much that when I took over as director for the children's ministry at my church I bought copies for the rest of the staff and we read through it together. For those of you who are like me and were once a drama club/class...nerd...person...this book will be right up your alley. It really helped to pinpoint areas of needs in our ministry and how to structure the staff to meet them and in a creative, original way. Realizing the gifts and passions of each person on the CM team really helps each person to feel more appreciated, more passionate for what they do, and gave me the strength to continue when things got rough. God really blessed me through this book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Lead the way God made you. Must have book, July 1, 2010

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Todd Mckeever "Pastor Todd McKeever" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lead the Way God Made You:: Discovering Your Leadership Style in Children's Ministry (Paperback)

I have always enjoyed books about leadership, peoples gift sets, and children's ministry. It brings great pleasure that with this book you get all three of those topics wrapped up into one well written book titled Lead the way God made you by Larry Shallenberger.

I found that Larry through his descriptions of each type of person that God has made, did a wonderful job of painting a very clear picture of not only team work and what it consist of, but also helps walk you through a self discovery of how God made you and where He would have you fit. Unfortunately due to the terms that Larry uses to describe each leadership style, I think that it may serve as a double edged sword as well. The terms come from the theater field which for me is a huge plus and very understandable. For some, this may work against the true greatness of this wonderful book and the content in it. I completely feel that if anyone will read this book and work through the terms used to describe the leadership styles in the end they will actually see the true genius of what Larry has accomplished in the direction he chose to write from.

In this realistic look into the many dynamics of children's ministry leadership and where each of us fit Larry goes on to not just help each of us to find who God has made us to be but Larry also guides us into how to recognize who God made others to be and how we can all fit and work successfully on the team.

I have been a full time children's pastor for 17+ years and have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book as well as giving it to each of my volunteers over the years since the publishing of the book in 2005. This book has everything from simple language to challenging veterans in children's ministry by building a plan to make our cast (volunteer team) complete.

What about you? How did God make you? How are you wired for leadership? Do you dream for your team? Do you keep things organized? Post here in the blog how you lead or how your team shares that leadership. And to make it worth your time to comment, I will give away an autographed copy of Larry's book at the end of the blog tour, from a random drawing of all comments.

This is definateley one of those books that have made and stayed on my top shelf of must read books for children's ministry. Lead the Way God Made You: Discovering Your Leadership Style in Children's Ministry