The Montana Southern Baptist Convention office has
a variety of missions and ministries resources that are available to check
out and use in your church or ministry. If you would like to check out one
or more of the resources, call the office at 406.252.7537.
BIBLE STUDIES
My Purpose, His Plan
(NAMB)
Sharpening Your
Skills for His Mission. Adult resource kit includes video, leader guide and
adult workbook. This study was written and designed in an effort to help each of
us as Christians and churches discover what it truly means to be on mission for
Jesus Christ.
Unveiled: God’s Heart
For His People (WMU)
Videos and
Workbook by Bob Sjogren and Susan Lanford. Sjorgren reveals to Christians a new
way to read God’s Word. The Bible is not 66 separate books, but one book with an
introduction, story and conclusion. Most Christians read the Bible focusing on
God’s blessing for them personally, and thereby miss the Great Commission that
runs throughout the story. God’s blessings to us and His intent for us to bless
others have equal emphasis in His Word.
CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S JOB CORPS -
WMU
Breaking the Cycle:
Issues Affecting Poverty (WMU)
Cathy Butler’s
book gives practical ways churches and individuals can address poverty in the
United States and around the world. It also provides many ways to explore each
of these areas through prayer and ministry.
More Jesus/Less
Religion
By Stephen
Arterburn and Jack Felton. In their work “Toxic Faith” the authors exposed the
dangers of what they called toxic faith, helping countless believers understand
and overcome their religious misconceptions. This work goes a step further,
offering new insights and a positive approach to the dilemma.
Take the Guesswork
out of Cross-cultural Ministry (WMU)
By Margarita
Trevino. This resource addresses the missionary challenge that the church is
facing in the twenty-first century. The book looks at cultural diversity in the
workplace, the global marketplace, education and healthcare. It provides a
framework to address the topic of culture in an informed and sympathetic way.
There is Hope (WMU)
This video will
inspire and motivate you to become a part of Christian Women’s Job Corps. When
WMU leaders were confronted with the desperate plight of many women they asked:
what can we do? CWJC was their answer. Today this ministry thrives and grows,
reaching loving arms across America and beyond to offer women in need a hand up
to self-sufficiency.
What Every Church
Member Should Know About Poverty
By Ruby K. Payne
& Bill Ehlig. As churches engage in urban ministries and invite the poor into
their congregations, many issues arise. This book addresses some of the issues
churches face in dealing with individuals from poverty and offers ideas of how
your congregation can better serve the poor.
MISSIONS RESOURCES
Adults On Mission
Planbook (WMU)
Volume 2. People
all around you have needs that adults in your church can meet – along with
meeting their greatest need of knowing Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.
This book may have just the tips you need to reach people in your own community.
You will find things like: how to help victims of crime, offenders’ family
members, law enforcement and criminal justice professionals and the perpetrator,
how to set up a job fair, how to recognize God’s plan for the church, and for
you, how to engage in kingdom praying, how to be involved in disaster
ministries, ideas for seminars, missions fairs, helpful addresses and more!
Children In Action (WMU)
Fall 2002.
Missions Matchfile contains God’s Plan, My Part, Thailand & Costa Rica.
Spring 2003.
Missions Matchfile contains God’s Plan, My Part, Multihousing Missions, A Detour
to the Past and Paraguay.
Summer 2003.
Missions Matchfile contains God’s Plan, My Part in Chicago, Uganda and Christmas
in August.
Fall 2003.
Missions Matchfile contains the start of missions in Brazil, Yemen-ministering
in the Middle East and Seeing Zimbabwe.
First Steps In
Missions (WMU)
Activities and Ideas for Mission Friends and Teachers. Can be
used on its own. Focuses on Equatorial Guinea, Italy, Togo, China, Louisiana,
Montana, Hawaii, Tanzania, Puerto Rico, Washington, Poland, and Brazil.
Five Steps to the
Great Commission (WMU)
By Dawn Phillips.
This study provides an overview of the five approaches or steps WMU takes in
leading people to obey the Great Commission. 1) Pray for and Give to Missions,
2) Do Missions, 3) Learn About Missions, 4) Develop Spiritually Toward A
Missions Lifestyle and 5) Participate in the Work of the Church and
Denomination.
GIFT QUEST (WMU)
A Search for
Spiritual Gifts by Loyd Allen. Gift Quest is a book for teenagers that will help
them shape up
as they work out the particular gifts that will keep their faith in top condition.
Contains a personal inventory, endurance drills, Biblical basis, character and
purpose for spiritual gifts.
Guess What I Made? Recipes for Children from Around the World (WMU)
Pretzels from
Germany, Tortilla Soup from Ecuador, Macaroni and Cheese from America . . .
Children will enjoy trying out recipes gathered from countries around the world.
Most recipes are simple enough for children to do on their own. Book includes
100 recipes representing over 60 countries. Tidbits of information about
countries and their foods are also included.
I Can Do That! 100+
Ways to Be On Mission (WMU)
By Cathy Butler. This is a collection of ideas and projects you
can do to be on mission with God.
Ideas for Hospital
Ministries (WMU)
Homebound ministry is a natural opportunity to share God’s love
in a tangible way that is consistent with God’s concerns and our giftedness.
This book will guide you step-by-step in organizing and maintaining a homebound
ministry, and then “go with the conviction that God is the curegiver and your
are the caregiver.”
Ideas for Homebound
Ministry (WMU)
This is an
excellent resource to help you overcome your fears and be part of a successful
hospital ministry. It will guide you through the initial contact with hospital
staff, the first visit, the first prayer, and the ongoing contact necessary to
make hospital ministry work. Ideas and advise for ministering to special types
of patients prepares you to reach out to maternity patients and babies,
children, the elderly, those with cancer, and people with AIDS.
Mission Kids Leader
Guides (NAMB)
Volume 1.
On Mission Sessions, Field Project, and Ideas for Children Grades 1-6. Contains:
My Association, My State, My Nation, My World. Projects include: Crisis Closet,
Prayer Journeys, Sharing with Those Who Hurt, Ethnic Church Exchange, Helping
New Churches, Supplying Evangelism Tools, Adopting an MK and MANNA Projects.
Volume 2. Contains 52 Missions Events for Boys and Girls, Grades
1-6. Includes: The Languages of God’s Love, I Live in a Busy House, My Parent
Cooks Kimchi, Our Christmas Lasts All Year, We Help Others In Jesus’ Name, Big
Work, Big Pay, My Parent is an Associational Missionary, I Can Share Christ Here
or There, Helping Hundreds of Children, New Friends from Everywhere, Our Grocery
Has Bananas on Stalks and Squawking Chickens, The Doctor Is In . . . My House.
Volume 3.
Sharing Jesus With My Friends. Includes: Meet My Friend, Just Talking To Our
Father, Sharing with My Friends, Gone Fishing, Best Friend in the World,
Sometimes a Friend Just Needs a Hug, Friends Can Help Out, Ready, Aim, Adjust,
Teamwork Helps a Team Win! Special Delivery, I Say Tomayto, You Say Tomahto,
Friends Like to Share.
Volume 4.
Contains 52 Missions Events for Boys and Girls, Grades 1-6. Includes: Come Go
With Me, Giving to Jesus by Giving to Others, Two are Better Than One, Getting
in the Game, Learning to Follow Jesus, My Special Place, Making Things Happen,
Why Doesn’t Everyone Love Jesus, Being a Learner, Encouraging Others, People Who
Go and Working Together.
Lottie
Moon (IMB)
Video “A Journey
of Faith and Sacrifice”. See God at work in the contemporary video portrayal of
Lottie Moon’s life as told by Dr. Jerry Rankin, President of the International
Mission Board. 32 minutes.
Parents As
Partners (IMB)
Supporting Your Children As They Serve Overseas. This resource
provides encouragement and support as well as networking ideas for parents who
children are serving as international missionaries.
This I Know – Basic
English Bible Studies (WMU)
Bible Studies for
English-As-A-Second Language students.
Who Will Fill Our
Shoes? (WMU)
By Glen D. Post.
This book contains thirteen dramatic sketches for missions awareness. The
sketches are thought provoking and simple enough to be done by any group; drama
that is funny, challenging, and appropriate for a worship service.
WOMEN’s ENRICHMENT RESOURCES
A Heart Like His, by Beth
Moore – Leader Kit
Contains five
videotapes in which Beth Moore presents ten 50-minute lessons from the
Scriptures. Presents fascinating Bible truths about how David was a man after
God's own heart with many applications for women today. A sixth videotape
includes an administrative, leadership, and promotional segment. Also includes a
copy of A Heart Like Him Member Book (# 0-7673-2596-6), which includes
leader helps.
A Woman’s Heart: God’s
Dwelling Place – Leader Kit
This video-driven kit for A
Woman's Heart study contains five videotapes in which Beth Moore presents
ten 50-minute lessons from the Scriptures. A sixth videotape contains
administrative, leadership, and promotional segments. In addition this boxed kit
contains a copy of the Member Book, and a copy of the Leader Guide.
Believing God, by Beth
Moore – Leader Kit
Join best-selling author and
popular women’s conference leader Beth Moore as she explores what it means to
know and truly believe God—as described in Isaiah 43:10. Drawing from the
"Heroes of the Faith" in Hebrews 11, this study examines the lives of Abraham,
Moses and others who believed God. Through their examples, Beth encourages women
to deepen their own trust in God and receive a fresh word from Him. Originally
offered as a unique, Internet-only group study, this current version is ideal
for anyone who hasn’t experienced it already—or simply wants to share it with
others. This powerful resource will lead participants to a more active, living
faith—one that begins with...believing God.
Includes 1 Member
Book, 1 Leader Guide, and 5 DVDs with
Beloved Disciple: The Life
and Ministry of John, by Beth Moore – Leader Kit
Through Beth Moore's study of the
Extraordinary biblical figure, John, she conveys that he had the God-given gift
of seeing a larger picture. Accentuating that his love relationship with Jesus
Christ profoundly influenced everything he did and wrote, she helps women know
the one the New Testament calls the "beloved disciple." This in-depth 10-session
interactive study, filmed in Greece and Turkey, helps women develop ears to hear
and eyes to see what Christ desires to reveal to each of His children. The
Leader Kit includes six videotapes and a copy each of the Leader Guide
(# 0-6330-1853-8), the Member Book (# 0-6330-1851-1), and the Music
Listening CD (# 0-6330-2294-2).
Breaking Free, by Beth
Moore – Leader Kit
Breaking Free: Making
Liberty in Christ a Reality in Life Leader Kit is essential for leading the
11-week, video-based study. This boxed kit contains six videotapes, a Leader
Guide (# 0-7673-9113-6), and a Member Book (# 0-7673-9112-8). Five of
the videotapes contain the 10 50-minute presentations featuring Beth Moore.
These dynamic and insightful lessons are used in group settings. The sixth
videotape contains administrative, leadership, and promotional segments.
Conversation Peace, by Mary
Kassian - Leader Kit
Have you ever left a conversation
feeling like shredded wheat? Stuck your foot in your mouth? Been at a loss for
words? Had difficulty getting your point across? Or been talked into doing
something you didn’t want to do? Do you find it difficult to connect with
others? Do you suspect that your speech patterns are hindering your
relationships? Maybe you need some Conversation Peace! Let Mary Kassian
teach you the seven powerful speech-transforming elements to master the skill of
effective communications. You will also strengthen your vocabulary with Words
from the Word. Conversation Peace will help you revolutionize your speech
habits and improve your relationships.
Fingerprints of God: Recognizing God's Touch On Your Life, by Jennifer
Rothschild - Leader Kit (LifeWay)
Recognize, receive, and
remain under God's touch. The God who raised mountains and set the mighty waves
in motion wants you to feel His tender touch. While no skin-on-skin or 98.6
degrees, God's touch is always personal. Author, speaker, and recording artist
Jennifer Rothschild understands that God guides us on pathways we cannot
navigate alone. God's essential touch separates us from all other created
beings. His touch warms, affirms, and guides us; it communicates value and
self-esteem. Study teaches us to recognize six things we can experience because
of God's touch; honor, intimacy, shelter, guidance, redemption, and refinement.
Leader kit includes member book, two Dvds with all six sessions of Jennifer's
teaching, promotional segments, and Jennifer singing "He Touched Me" and one
trade book of the same name.
He Speaks
To Me, by Priscilla Shirer - Leader Kit (LifeWay)
Why do we settle for the Word
of the Lord revealed to someone else and passed on to us as if God does not
speak to us individually? This shouldn't satisfy us. He wants us to hear His
voice, understand and obey. The Lord desires to speak to us personally. He wants
to meet us where we are despite who we are and reveal His will for our lives.
The Leader kit contains the following items for facilitating a seven-session
study: Member book includes viewer guides and study material for six weeks of
in-depth, interactive daily assignments and seven small-group sessions, and a
leader guide for facilitating the small-group sessions. Two DVDs include seven
teaching sessions, promotional segments to invite participation in the study,
and a music video by recording artist Anthony Evans.
Jesus, The One And Only, by
Beth Moore – Leader Kit
Through video segments taped on
location in Israel, women can visit many of the places Jesus visited in this
11-week, interactive study by Beth Moore. This kit—an essential element of the
group study—includes six videocassettes, a Member Book (#076733275X), and
a Leader Guide (#0767332768). Five of the videocassettes feature 10
presentations sharing lessons from the Scriptures. During the group meeting,
participants view dynamic 50-minute video messages as well as discuss insights
from each week's lesson. The sixth video includes an introductory segment for
the first session, plus a leadership segment, and brief promotional segments for
in-church and cable TV use. A music CD by worship leader and arranger Travis
Cottrell also is included. Featured songs correspond to the weekly sessions and
reinforce the Bible truths learned each week—a valuable bonus for both group and
individual use. Videotapes are close-captioned for the hearing impaired.
The Life
and Ministry Of Paul, by Beth Moore – Leader Kit
This video-driven kit contains five
videotapes that feature Beth Moore as she presents lessons from the Scriptures,
plus a sixth videotape with administrative, leadership, and promotional
segments. In addition, the Leader Kit also contains one copy of the
Member Book (# 0-7673-3412-4) and one copy of the Leader Guide (#
0-7673-3411-6).
The
Patriarchs: Encountering the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, by Beth Moore -
Leader Kit (LifeWay)
Explore with Beth Moore such
concepts as blessing, covenant, and promise. See how they affect our lives as
New Testament believers. Get to know the individuals and families God used to
birth His redemptive plan. See a perfect and holy God endure in His relationship
with man at his best - and at his weakest and worst. Full of twists and turns,
ruin and redemption, revelation and mystery, this in-depth study of Genesis
12-50 will keep you captivated by the God who stars in it. This eleven-week
study includes personal, daily assignments and weekly group session. This leader
kit provides six dvds featuring and introductory session and ten teaching
sessions, one member book, one leader guide and one inspirational CD.
The Vision
of His Glory: Finding Hope Through The Revelation Of Jesus Christ, by Anne
Graham Lotz - Leader Kit (LifeWay)
This study is a
seven-session, video driven study of the book of Revelation based on the content
of Anne Graham Lotz's award-winning book, The Vision of His Glory. Along with a
workshop that presents Anne's approach to learning an effective way to read,
study and apply Scripture, this study contains six seminars that help
participants find hope through the revelation of Jesus Christ and impart that
vision of His glory to others. This kit includes: four videotapes which provide
two promotional segments, a music video, the worksho, and Anne's seminar
presentations, a copy of the book, and a member book.
Walking By
Faith: Lessons Learned in the Dark, by Jennifer Rothschild - Leader Kit (LifeWay)
The study contrasts the
evidences of walking by faith and walking by sight and encourages participants
to take risks instead of playing it safe, give God control rather than seeking
to remain in control, persevere through hardship instead of quitting, receive
God's gifts versus rejecting God's goodness, be guided by the Truth rather than
feelings, seek God instead of seeking deliverance from difficulty. Leader kit
contains items for a 6 week study including member book and two dvds that
contain the teaching portions of all six sessions.
When Godly People Do
Ungodly Things, by Beth Moore – Leader Kit
Based on the best-selling
book with the same title, the first section of this seven-week study is a
warning to believers, while the second section shows women how to prepare for
attacks by the Enemy. The third section is directed to those who have been
snared by seduction, and compassionately points the way back to God. With 1
Samuel 12:20–25 as a guide, Christians can arm themselves against temptation and
learn how to help other fallen believers. Group sessions for this short-term
study require about an hour each week. Each lesson is divided between a
30-minute video-based teaching segment by Moore, followed by 30 minutes of group
discussion. The Leader Kit contains one Leader Guide, one
Member Book, and—for the first time—video-based lessons on two DVDs. Discs
include an introduction and six weekly sessions that correspond to the Member
Book, plus lots of study enhancing additional footage. Video segments are
closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
AGE SPECIFIC AIDS
Ways to Care for
Preschoolers (WMU)
Provides helpful
hints for parenting, instilling Christian values, establishing discipline
techniques, and introducing the concepts of ministry. Packed with practical
advice and fun activities, this book is a valuable resource for parents,
teachers and other caregivers.
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