Outreach Resources

The Nebraska Synod Outreach Table has compiled a list of helpful resources for congregations to use in their ministry contexts.

The following first is a list of resources of other websites or downloadable documents. The second is a list of recommended readings on related topics to community engagement, evangelism, mission, outreach, transformation and vitality.

Resources
Books
1. Living Lutheran: Renewing Your Congregation by Dave Daubert (Feb 1, 2007)
2. Unbinding the Gospel: Real Life Evangelism, 2nd Edition, Martha Grace Reese (2008)
3. Reclaiming the E Word: Waking Up to Our Evangelical Identity, Kelly A. Fryer (Mar 1, 2008)
4. Growing Young: Six Essential Strategies to Help Young People Discover and Love Your Church, Kara Powell, Jake Mulder & Brad Griffin (Sep 20, 2016)
5. Faithful Metrics: A Field Guide to Measuring Mission without Missing the Moments, Peggy Hahn (2018)
6. Memories, Hopes, and Conversations: Appreciative Inquiry, Missional Engagement, and Congregational Change, 2nd Edition, Mark Lau Branson (2016)
7. Discovering Hope: Building Vitality in Rural Congregations, David Poling-Goldenne & L. Shannon Jung (2001)
8. The Innovative Church: How Leaders and their Congregations Can Adapt in an Ever-Changing World, Scott Cormode (2020)
9. Becoming a Hybrid Church, Dave Daubert & Richard Jorgensen, Jr., (2020)
10. How Change Comes to Your Church: A Guidebook for Church Innovations, Patrick Keifert & Wesley Granberg-Michaelson (2019).
11. The Agile Church: Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age, Dwight Zscheile (2014).
12. Who Moved My Pulpit?: Leading Change in the Church, Thom S. Rainer (2016)
13. Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive, Thom S. Rainer (2014)
14. I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference, Thom S. Rainer (2013)
15. Simple Church: Returning to God’s Process for Making Disciples, Thom S. Rainer & Eric Geiger (2011)
16. The Digital Cathedral: Networked Ministry in a Wireless World, Keith Anderson (2015)
17. The Social Media Gospel: Sharing the Good News in New Ways, Meredith Gould (2015)
18. Weird Church: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century, Beth Ann Estock & Paul Nixon (2016)
19. Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S., Lenny Duncan (2019)
20. Divergent Church: The Bright Promise of Alternative Faith Communities, Tim Shapiro & Kara Faris (2017)

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Outreach Resources

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