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and More- Christian Caregiving--
a Way of Life - Caring Evangelism: How to Live and Share Christ's Love
- Discovering God's Vision for Your Life: You and Your
Spiritual Gifts - Spiritual Growth through
Spiritual Gifts - Leader Killers: How
to Identify and Deal
with Antagonists in
Your Organization - Antagonists in the Church: How to Identify and Deal with Destructive Conflict
- Caring for Inactive Members: How to Make God’s House a Home
- Christian Caregiving--
About
Us
Discovering God's Vision for Your Life Participant Manual (Certificate Included)
Price: $11.95
Leadership Prayers
Price: $12.95
Real Leadership
Price: $27.95
The Heart of Stephen Ministry - VHS
Price: $7.95
Pass the Word Packet
Mission and Ministry
of Stephen Ministries
Since 1975, the 45-person staff of Stephen Ministries St. Louis has developed training and resources characterized by excellence, practicality, psychological integrity, and theological depth. Stephen Ministries offers books, courses, videos, training conferences, and ministry systems to fit the needs of every Christian congregation and adult education ministry, as well as to equip individuals for ministry and leadership in daily life.
To accomplish this, Stephen Ministries St. Louis offers:
- The Stephen Series system of one-to-one lay caring ministry
- The ChristCare Series system of small group ministry
- The Breakthrough Leadership Conference for leaders of all types--in the church, business world, social sector, and elsewhere
- Journeying through Grief, a set of four short books to share with grieving people
- Discovering God's Vision for Your Life, a complete set of spiritual gifts discovery and ministry mobilization resources and tools for congregations
- A number of other resources such as adult education courses, books, and videos
The Core Purpose (Mission) of Stephen Ministries
Stephen Ministries' Core Purpose is summed up in the words of St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesians. These verses have been rendered by renowned calligrapher Timothy Botts on the entryway wall to the Stephen Ministries Center, boldly proclaiming the mission to everyone who enters.
"To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ" (Ephesians 4:12-13).
The Core Values of Stephen Ministries
- Incarnational theology
- Ministry as the privilege and responsibility of all God's people
- Empowering those we serve to get excellent results
- Personal humility
- Organizational stability
- Positive work environment
Read about the history of Stephen Ministries.