Places of Promise: Finding Strength in Your Congregation's Location (Paperback)

~ (Author), Deborah Bruce (Author)
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In Places of Promise Cynthia Woolever and Deborah Bruce present the ways in which location is defined and employ results from research to reveal how location influences congregational life. Woolever and Bruce include illustrations to demonstrate that every congregation can achieve strength and effectiveness in its present location if its ministry focus and leadership decisions parallel factors that are important to the community.

About the Author

Cynthia Woolever is Director of the U.S. Congregational Life Survey for U.S. Congregations and Professor of Sociology of Religious Organizations at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research at Hartford Seminary. She is the coauthor of A Field Guide to U.S. Congregations and Beyond the Ordinary, also published by Westminster John Knox Press. Deborah Bruce is Project Manager of the U.S. Congregational Life Survey for U.S. Congregations and Associate Research Manager in the Research Services Office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). She is the coauthor of A Field Guide to U.S. Congregations and Beyond the Ordinary.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Westminster; illustrated edition edition (January 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0664230237
• ISBN-13: 978-0664230234
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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