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The Team That Jesus Built: How to Develop, Equip, and Commission a Women’s Ministry Team
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Praying For Your Prodigal Daughter: Hope, Help, & Encouragement for Hurting Parents
The Team That Jesus Built
How to Develop, Equip, and Commission a Women’s Ministry Team
Building, remodeling, or refurbishing your ministry? This book is for you and your team members!
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In The Team That Jesus Built, Janet Thompson shares from personal experience with team building Jesus-style. She is thorough in every area and phase of team development, providing useful tools for building, mentoring, coaching, and assessing your team. No matter where you are in your team-building process, The Team That Jesus Built provides a proven model that will help you and your team efficiently and effectively serve the ministry. –Laurie Beth Jones, author of Jesus, CEO; The Path; and The Four Elements of Success
Janet Thompson has a heart for the Lord and a heart for raising up women who have a heart for Him. She has given us many tools to mentor women and to grow together as women. As a leader herself, she has developed effective and multiplying teams.”—Chris Adams, senior lead women’s ministry specialist, LifeWay Christian Resources
THERE ARE NUMEROUS THEORIES AND BOOKS written on leadership and team building, but from personal experience Janet learned that none surpass the example of Jesus and His team of disciples. Using the Gospel of Mark as the text, Janet will help you develop a team that is equipped to do the Lord’s work even when you are not around.
Through personal observations, step-by-step instructions, and simple how-to applications of Jesus’ leadership principles, The Team That Jesus Built equips laywomen—regardless of church location, denomination, or size—to cultivate leadership skills and create teams for the glory of God. The goal of every ministry leader!
Based on Janet’s experience building the Woman to Woman Mentoring Ministry at Saddleback Church, under the leadership of pastor Rick Warren (The Purpose-Driven Life), Janet mentors ministry leaders with tools, direction, guidance, and encouragement to build teams that equip leaders to build teams.
What Readers Are Saying:
THIS IS AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE for starting (or developing) a women’s ministry and other ministries as well. The ministry God led me to start involves men and women, but much of the principles and wisdom Thompson shares is applicable across the board. I am highly considering purchasing a book for each of my ministry leaders and reading other books she has written.—Ashley I GOT YOUR NEW BOOK ABOUT TEAM BUILDING, The Team That Jesus Built, and I LOVED it.—Pam Workman YOUR BOOK ARRIVED IN THE MAIL TODAY. Besides the beautiful pink cover, I was attracted to the captivating title. I meant to just briefly look through it, but the introduction caught me and I haven’t put it down since. I love it. It’s been a real encouragement and motivation to me at a time when I feel dry as a leader and wondering if I want to direct my women’s ministry anymore!!! Great job on that book. It’s been a long 20 years for me in women’s ministry and I feel “burnt out” because, like you said, I have not taken the time to adequately develop a team. But reading your book has not made me feel guilty about not developing a team, but rather has inspired me that it isn’t too late to do what Jesus did. More importantly, your book has brought me back to why I minister in the first place…to serve my Lord. Thank you for a book that is already bringing me back to the feet of Jesus.—Darlene |
Praying For Your Prodigal Daughter
Hope, Help, & Encouragement For Hurting Parents
What to do with a child who has walked away from the Lord, or is not living out her faith, or maybe is not a believer yet? Janet gives hope to parents of sons or daughters who have gone astray.
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How I wish Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter was available when my journey as a prodigal’s mom began! What a wealth of encouragement, reality checks, and practical help for hurting parents. Janet’s transparence brings hope in what often feels like a hopeless situation.—Chris Adams, senior lead women’s ministry specialist, LifeWay Christian Resources
Don’t wait until you have a prodigal situation; get this book now. Any parent will benefit from its strong combination of prayers, insights, and stories. If you have a prodigal daughter, you’ll find Janet Thompson’s book comforting and a reminder to keep praying confidently, expectantly, and with conviction. I recommend it.?—Brenda Nixon, parenting expert, speaker, and author of Parenting Power in the Early Years
MANY CHRISTIAN PARENTS THROW UP THEIR HANDS or suffer from guilt based parenting…neither of which helps the daughter. Based on Janet’s own testimony of praying for over six years for her former prodigal daughter, Kim, she offers hope to parents in what may seem like a hopeless situation.
Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter chronicles Janet’s realization that only God could bring back her daughter and the journey of praying daily for Kim’s salvation and God’s will to be done in her life. Their story, as told by Kim and Janet, of God’s redemption in both of their lives, along with the stories of many praying mother’s and former prodigal daughters, will give hope and encouragement to hurting parents of prodigal daughters. Janet also shares practical tips to help parents and families cope with the trauma of having a prodigal daughter or sibling.
Each chapter has discussion question designed for use as a family or support group, and Janet encourages families to pray and receive support together. There is also space to journal and cry out to the Lord at the end of each chapter. The Appendix includes “Forty Days of Praying Scripture for Your Daughter” and a Prayer & Praise Journal.
What Readers Are Saying:
Hope
THIS BOOK HAS INSPIRED ME TREMENDOUSLY in a walk that sometimes seems more than I can bear. I ordered this book when I had reached a point that felt as if my prayers would never be answered. I read the first chapter within minutes of receiving the book so that I could get through the rest of that day. My hope is renewed that regardless of my daughter’s ultimate decision, that God identifies with my pain, He wants to heal my heart and He will take care of me no matter how things turn out. I have prayed many of the referenced prayers/journal entries, not only for the sake of my daughter, but also for me. Thank you, Janet for having written this book, even if it were only for me. Any person facing an estranged relationship with their daughter will be encouraged as they read the loving words written in this book.—S. Tallas IN THE PROCESS OF OUR ADOPTIVE DAUGHTER RUNNING AWAY FROM OUR HOME 2 YEARS AGO, I ordered 5 books on prodigals that I randomly selected from the CBD website. Yours was one of the books. It was the one that helped me the most as a mother and helped to give me a glimmer of hope, where before I wasn’t sure one existed. The truths in the book spoke loudly to me in my grief. I felt someone understood what me and my husband were going through. It felt as though the Holy Spirit was reaching from the pages and telling me to look up to receive the comfort that I so desperately needed. The book helped give focus to my prayers. After a long 9 months, God miraculously worked to bring our daughter home. She will turn 21 in 2 months, is working, in school and is the mom to our first precious 1 year old grandson. Thanks for writing this book and sharing your struggles to help others. God Bless your ministry.—Lou Ann |
Help
YOUR BOOK IS HELPING ME THROUGH THIS ordeal by teaching me to turn my focus back towards God and taking my thoughts off what Satan tries to get me to focus on.—A Praying Mom |
Encouragement
Praying For Our Granddaughters
Yes, I will pray preventively through your book and claim God’s protection on my precious granddaughter. It’s a GRAND idea. Thank you for that suggestion.—A Praying Grandma
Praises!
SO MANY TIMES, I’D CRY OUT TO GOD and plead with Him to give me strength. He did, as He always does. Thank you SO much for your interest, counsel, and your book. —A Praying Mother, Grand Rapids, MI |