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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"lay leaders"”.
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Equipping Lay Leaders in Expository Preaching at Four Points Baptist Church in Centreville, Alabama
This project was designed to equip elder-qualified men in expository preaching at Four Points Baptist Church in Centreville, Alabama. Chapter 1 provides the context, rationale, purpose, goals, and research methodology of this project. Chapter 2 provides the biblical and theological basis for the …
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The Impact of Values Clarification and Expression of Beliefs on Dysfunctional Leadership among Church Lay Leaders
<p>Problem</p> <p>Leaders face challenges from within themselves and from others. Dysfunctions within the leader and with their group can lessen leadership effectiveness. It appears some leaders manage these dysfunctions better than others. More needs to be understood about how these dysfunctions …
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Essential leadership competencies of professional ministerial staff as identified by senior pastors, staff members, and church lay leaders
This dissertation identifies a set of leadership competencies that those in church leadership positions consider essential for professional ministerial staff to possess in order to lead effectively. Chapter 1 provided the research problem that justifies the research. It also defines the research …
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Equipping Lay Leaders of Cape Bible Chapel in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to Create a Community of Biblical Counseling
The purpose of this project is to train the key lay leaders of Cape Bible Chapel in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to counsel those under their care for the further development of the church’s community of disciples. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry context of Cape Bible Chapel and the goals …
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A study of the knowledge and attitudes held by county extension lay leaders and members relative to the 1966 reorganization of the Cooperative Extension Association of Jefferson County, New York
… (1) levels of knowledge and attitude held by lay leaders and members of the Extension reorganization, (2) the relationships between the levels of knowledge and attitude of the leaders and members, and (3) the relationships of the levels of knowledge and attitude held by leaders and members …
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Justice, faith and politics : congregational engagement in social justice issues.
… political rather than biblical. Congregational leaders are facing many challenges as they engage social justice issues from the pulpit and as a congregation. The perceptions and lived experiences of clergy and lay leaders that are discussed in the quantitative study and qualitative studies …
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A case for critical reflection for mission leader formation in interdisciplinary ministry
… to examine the role critical reflection should play in preparing Lay leaders to serve as mission leaders in an interdisciplinary ministry. The aim of this study was to design an evidence-based case of the need for critical reflection as a tool for mission leader formation. A qualitative case …
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An analysis of leadership styles of pastors of growing ethnic churches of the Florida Baptist Convention
… descriptive-quantitative study was to identify leadership styles, specifically the transformational and transactional leadership of pastoral leaders of growing ethnic churches of the Florida Baptist Convention. This study further examined self-perceptions of transformational and transactional …
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A Curriculum Data Base for Continuing Education for Ministers in the Colombia-Venezuela Union Mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
… of administrators, departmental directors, and lay leaders at the Union, Conference, and Mission levels.</p> <p>Methodology. Societal factors of the countries of the Colombia-Venezuela Union Mission were collected and organized from existing sources. Information concerning the ministers was …
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Power, Authority and Influence: A Comparative Study of the Behavioral Influence Tactics Used by Lay and Ordained Leaders in the Episcopal Church
Leadership is a social influence process that is necessary for the attainment of societal and organizational goals. Leadership is both conspicuous in its absence and mysterious in its presence — familiar and yet hard to define. Leadership happens within the power and authority structures of …
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A Matter of Balance: Program Outcomes for Community-Dwelling Older Adults
… determine if A Matter of Balance with volunteer lay leaders (AMOB/VLL) was effective in increasing fall self-efficacy, fall control, and fall management in community-dwelling older adults.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> Participants included community-dwelling older adults over the age of 60 …
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Leadership Training of Ministerial Students in Evangelical Institutions of Higher Education
… in the United States, that more and better leaders are needed in local congregations. Traditionally, seminaries, graduate and undergraduate schools have prepared pastors to fulfill these roles and satisfy church expectations. The majority of pastoral preparation is theological in nature, …
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The Deepening of Catholic Identity Through a Focus on Mission and School Culture by Lay Leadership: A Case Study on a Diocesan High School without a Religious Order Affiliation
… Church has added to the pressures put on the lay administrators to combat these challenges (Hunt, 2005; Heft, 2011). The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCBB) and other church leaders have called for Catholic schools to deepen their Catholic identity as a way to draw in the …
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The impact of leadership on school improvement
… produced a substantial amount of literature on leadership, school improvement and change. Some of this has been reviewed and discussed with reference to general education. There is a paucity of research in this country on leadership in Jewish Supplementary Education, although some important …
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Pastoral Effectiveness : a Study of Differences Among Comparison Groups of Seventh-day Adventist Clergy
… than the less-effective pastors. According to lay-leaders' ratings, the more-effective group spent more time on 12 aspects of their work, and their task proficiency was rated superior on 23 of 25 pastoral tasks.</p>
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The Empirical Development of a Curriculum on Faith Development
<p>Problem. Professional and lay leaders in the Seventh-day Adventist church need to be sensitive to the dynamics of faith development as it interfaces with human development over the life span, and with its practical implications. Currently, there is no curriculum available, empirically developed …
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Takkanot Kandiyah – A collection of legislative statutes as a source for the assessment of laymen’s legal authority in a Jewish community in Venetian Crete
… a unique opportunity to study the development of leadership of a semi-autonomous Jewish community. The dissertation is divided into an introduction, two parts and a conclusion. In the introduction (chapter one), I outline the structure of Takkanot Kandiyah, summarise its historical background and …
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A Missiological Study of the Phenomenon of Dual Allegiance in the Seventh-day Adventist Church Among the Yoruba People of Nigeria
… needed on the power of the gospel. Pastors and lay leaders of the church need to be trained in critical contextualization. The creation of a study center for African Traditional Religions and worldviews will help the denomination to better understand how to contextualize mission to Africans and …
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A study of the nature and development of orthodox Judaism in South Africa to c.1935
… and mind-sets of the Jews from Eastern Europe played a very important part in the way the community shaped itself. Other influences which were brought to bear included the Zionist movement, the internal authority of the important religious figures and institutions such, as the Ecclesiastical …
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