Ministerial Growth and Support

Helping you learn and grow -- serve well and  be healthy! Advocating for Church Workers and their Families

Healthy Tips for a Healthy You! Here are several tips taken from the questionnaires collected from our Healthy You! contest.  Try them out for a boost to your daily activity.  Watch this space for more tips during the coming weeks! Try a new physical activity this week. Get out and garden!  Walk inside a mall if it gets too hot outside. Enjoy a new park each weekend. Enjoy the outdoors with your family         What a Way will help you carry out your ministry with health, wholeness, and vitality. See more... What a Way seeks not to simply recruit future generations of church workers but to support and encourage you, the church's present generation of workers. Your skills, gifts, and talents are a treasure to the church's ministry.     ?Money Blues? Click on Financial Planning for help with managing personal finances. Check out the new Consumer Purchase Payment Calculator to estimate payments of large purchases over time and to find out the real cost of that purchase.

Study on Churchworker Indebtedness Read the latest study on Rostered Church Worker indebtedness by clicking on this LINK.                     View highlights from the "Let's Talk it Over" DVD. Read  a new  study concerning Churchworker Retention.  Click on the link "Retaining Church Work Professionals" on the upper left .     E-NEWSLETTER READER ENJOYS BI-MONTHLY MESSAGE Gail Pawlitz, a regular reader of the CMGS e-Newletter writes, "Thank you for these wonderful emails. They help in unique ways to put my chin up and move forward in faith.  Over my many years as a church worker, I have rarely felt this kind of support.  God bless you with more good stuff (and we know He will)." If you would like to subscribe to the CMGS e-News, click on the box below and enjoy CMGS e-News twice a month!   Click on the link to read the latest CMGS e-Newsletter, published on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month!   INTERNATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY PROVIDES HOPE TO COMBAT ADDICTION   According to surveys by George Barna and Christianity Today, 40 percent of pastors and 70 percent of Christian laymen have viewed pornography within the past 60 days.  The Recovery Leader's Guide IBS will release in January contains helps for pastors, church leaders, and ministries to build and expand effective, Christ-centered recovery and support group ministries.  For more information on how your church can become involved, pleast contact IBS or visit http://journeyofrecovery.org.

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