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…where to find it            David Mays

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About – About David Mays 

Book Notes – Notes on the books David reads

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• Leadership Book Notes on CD
• Book Notes on the Web 
• Current Book Notes

·        Lists of Best Books on Leadership, on Management, and on Change

• List of David’s Favorite Books and Authors

Itinerary  

Consultations and Coaching

Missions Check Up – Diagnosing your church’s missions health

• Missions as Purpose
• Missions as Program

·        Missions as Project

Missions Pastor – Helps for Missions Pastors and those who need one

• When do you need a missions pastor?
• Where to find a missions pastor
• Considerations for finding a missions pastor
• Profile of a missions pastor
• Critical responsibilities of a missions pastor
• Job description for a missions pastor
• Orientation for missions pastors
• Handbook for new missions pastors
• Toughest issues for missions pastors
• Leadership obstacles for missions pastors
• Local Missions Networks

Missions Resources – Lists of Missions Resources

• Articles – by David Mays
• Books and Resources by David Mays

• Books – Best Books on Leadership, on Management, and on Change
• Books – Missions-related books subdivided by category
• Books – For Christians new to missions
• Books – I want to read something on missions.
• Books – Shorter books for developing spiritual intimacy with God
• Building Global Minded Christians – A Study of Local Church Mobilization, 92-page thesis (.pdf) by Mark Mays
• Lists of Resources – Missions topics for which you can request an informal list of resources
• Networks – Area Missions Pastors and Missions Leaders Networks
• Pastor’s Packet – Resources to strengthen your missions background and build a global perspective
• Stuff you need to know about Doing Missions in Your Church by David Mays
• Sample Forms – Missions forms, policies, and procedures developed by churches
• Short-Term Resources
• Stories to illustrate a point or an issue, by David Mays
• Strategy Resource - Guide for Developing a Missions Strategy by David Mays
• Trip Stuff: Stuff you need to know about Doing Mission Trips in Your Church by David Mays
1. Trip Stuff Contents
• Workshops and presentations available by David Mays

Writings - Things David has written

Audio

• Making Your Life Count (Sunday morning message, 30 minutes)
• What is the Bible All About?  (Sunday morning message, 25 minutes)  
• Where is God?  (Sunday morning message, 25 minutes)

Articles

·        Biblical Foundations for a Missions Strategy

·        Communicating Missions

·        Four Kinds of Pastors

·        Four Key Criteria for Missionary Support

·        Mission Trips – What Are We Doing?

·        Missions: Foundation Fractures in the North American Church

·        Selected Missions Verses

·        Supporting Our Own

·        The Coming Missionary ‘Crisis’

·        The Domestication of the Great Commission

·        The Expanding Scope of Missions

·        The Great Commission-Driven Church

·        The Great Distortion

·        Top Missions Challenges for the Changing US Church

·        What Belongs in the Missions Budget?

·        What is Missions – And Why does it Matter?

·        What is a Missionary?

·        What is the Bible All About?

·        Why Mission Organizations Should Expect to Keep Tightening Their Belts

·        Why Strategy?

·        World Evangelism and the Purpose of the Church

     Brief Items

·        Changing Missions Dynamics:

·        Church Missions Budgets - 2009:

·       Compassion Without Strings:

·       Critical roles of a missions pastor

·        Funding Local Ministries:

·       How Does a Visitor Know Your Church’s Priorities?

·        How to Start a Missions Ministry:

·       The Minimum Factor:

·        Missions Ministry Orientation: Purpose & Task or Relationships & Compassion?

·       Missions Priorities in Contemporary Churches:

·       Missions Questions to Ask senior Pastor Candidates

·       Reading Tips

·       Ten Main Things
Ten Steps to an Effective Mission Trip

·        The Image and Substance of Missions: Three Critical Issues

·        Weighed in the Balance:

·        What is the Best Way to Fund Missions in Our Church?

·        What Shapes Your Missions Ministry?

·       Will You Support Us?

     Brochures

·        Finding Your Niche in Missions

·        What is Missions and Why Does It Matter?

     Stories (to illustrate a point)

·        A Visit to the Rescue Mission

·        Building the Church?

·        Coaching

·        Do As I Say...

·        Farming 

·        Feeding the Hungry

·        Fishing

·        Go-Karts and Power Steering

·        Measuring Results 

·        Missionary Vehicle

·        Priorities

·        Selling Pepsi

·        The Dream

·        The Missionary Bulletin Board 

·        Three Great Ideas and How They Grew

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