New Doors in Ministry to Women: A Fresh Model for Transforming your Church, Campus, or Mission Field

New Doors is a creative, new approach to life-changing women's ministries! Mothers and grandmothers, stay-at-home moms and working moms, students and singles. How can your women's ministry become a celebration of the church's uniqueness rather than a conflict of interest?

New Doors provides direction for building a ministry team, creating dynamic Bible studies, and preparing for and surviving conflicts through the implementation of the Transformation Model - a life-changing strategy that adapts the understanding of biblical truth to the unique circumstances of various ministries. By building a women's ministry around an understanding of biblical truth, this new model helps deepen women's relationships with God and then with others.

The book is based on an approach that has been tested and found equally effective in campus ministries, local churches, and missions programs both in the U.S. and overseas. Published by Kregel in December 2002.

Women's Retreats: A Creative Planning Guide

Almost every church—large or small—has a women’s retreat. While Bible study should always remain the core of any quality women’s ministry, Scripture- centered retreats provide a unique opportunity for women to hear back-to-back life-changing messages, live in the midst of authentic community for several days, and get away for fun and fellowship. Annual retreats provide a perfect forum to address relational needs, take time away from busy jobs and homes, and focus on knowing God.

In addition there are new retreat formats to consider: retreats can highlight prayer and solitude, training, or fit a special audience such as singles, working women and mothers and daughters. God has given women creative gifts and retreats are an excellent place for women to use them. In our book, we will show how to combine art, drama and worship to complement biblical themes. We will actually take five or six themes and bring them alive with "how to" instructions that women can adapt to their setting.

Published by Kregel in October 2004.