Books about Outreach from Amazon.com

How to promote Christian leadership development through the study of the history of Christianity, including discipleship, mentoring, Christian community, and personal relationships.
Price: $10.60 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This paperback edition of the full ESV Bible is a handy and affordable Bible for personal use and for bulk distribution Its handy size makes it suitable for regular Bible readers, and its extra features and content will help newcomers discover the Bible for themselves and understand it better.

* 8.2-point type

* Introduction to each book

* Black-letter

* 928 pages

* Size: 5.25" x 8.25"

* Special features: What the Bible is All About; How to Read the Bible; Where to Find Help When You Are...; What the Bible Says About...; Getting Started: A Forty-Day Bible-Reading Plan; God's Plan to Save You; One-Year Bible-Reading Plan.
Price: $4.15 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Designed for teachers who work with students who have difficulty with writing and/or expressive language skills, this book provides practical strategies for teaching expository expression at the word, sentence, paragraph and essay levels.

Here's a brief look at what you'll find in this Teaching Guide: theory on teaching language; techniques for teaching noun, verb, preposition, adjective and adverb concepts; strategies and frameworks for sentence, paragraph and essay instruction; and teacher friendly examples and templates for use with students.

The teaching methodology in this book has been refined through over thirty years of teaching students with language-based learning disabilities..
Price: $25.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Trigonometry, a work in the collection of the Gelfand School Program, is the result of a collaboration between two experienced pre-college teachers, one of whom, I.M. Gelfand, is considered to be among our most distinguished living mathematicians. His impact on generations of young people, some now mathematicians of renown, continues to be remarkable. Trigonometry covers all the basics of the subject through beautiful illustrations and examples. The definitions of the trigonometric functions are geometrically motivated. Geometric relationships are rewritten in trigonometric form and extended. The text then makes a transition to the study of algebraic and analytic properties of trigonometric functions, in a way that provides a solid foundation for more advanced mathematical discussions. Throughout, the treatment stimulates the reader to think of mathematics as a unified subject. Like other I.M. Gelfand treasures in the program—Algebra, Functions and Graphs, and The Method of Coordinates—Trigonometry is written in an engaging style, and approaches the material in a unique fashion that will motivate students and teachers alike.

From a review of Algebra, I.M. Gelfand and A. Shen, ISBN 0-8176-3677-3:

"The idea behind teaching is to expect students to learn why things are true, rather than have them memorize ways of solving a few problems, as most of our books have done. [This] same philosophy lies behind the current text by Gel'fand and Shen. There are specific 'practical' problems but there is much more development of the ideas.... [The authors] have shown how to write a serious yet lively book on algebra."

—R. Askey, The American Mathematics Monthly

.
Price: $22.43 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Praise for Family Life Education:

"Excellent for use by university instructors teaching family life education and program development courses The book's strength is the focus on bridging theory and research with actual practice, something much needed in the family life education field. This is a good book for both university instructors as well as practitioners working with family life education programs."

-Brent A. McBride, University of Illinois

"A big strength is the authors. . . .they are two excellent family life educators with a great depth of experience in this area."

-Charles A. Smith, Kansas State University

"This book will make a valuable contribution to teaching faculty in Family Life Education."

-Karen DeBord, North Carolina State University

Family Life Education: Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach is an excellent book for helping students and field professionals develop the knowledge and skills needed to take family science principles to citizens via family life education programs. Authors Stephen F. Duncan and H. Wallace Goddard incorporate leading outreach scholarship with years of professional experience to provide a scholarly, yet practical, guide for current and future family life outreach professionals.

Opening chapters lay the foundation of family life education by discussing its philosophical underpinnings and by encouraging readers to develop their own outreach philosophy. Subsequent chapters help readers learn principles and methods for reaching out to the public and diverse audiences. The book helps readers form and use community collaborations, navigate the social marketing of programs, and explore means of improving the practice of family life education.

Key Features

• Uses the authors' practical, hands-on experience to demonstrate how to put principles from the latest scholarship into action
• Provides figures, tables, and boxes to illustrate concepts
• Includes an end-of-chapter Conclusions section to summarize key points
• Offers an interactive Explorations section to give students practice in applying principles with useful, real-world questions and activities

Family Life Education is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who are preparing to be family life educators, as well as for current field professionals. It is a comprehensive, scholarly, yet practical how-to text that should prove to be the ultimate resource on effective family life education.

(20040907).
Price: $52.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

It began when a small group of believers stepped out in faith-against all odds-and claimed the Queen of Angels Hospital in downtown Los Angeles for the cause of Christ. Now 200 different ministries in the Los Angeles International Church reach out to thousands of residents. Innovative programs minister to AIDS victims, the homeless, battered women, drug and alcohol addicts, and abused children-offering hope and a chance for a better life. The Church That Never Sleeps shows how God can use this incredible ministry as a model to make dreams come true in neighborhoods across the nation.

.
Price: $8.74 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Exploring Life's Great Questions about God.
Price: $4.85 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Are you looking for fresh ideas to energize your small group? Here are hundreds of activities contributed by small group experts from across the United States. Tested in the field and drawn from the front lines of small group ministry, these creative ideas will help you evaluate the state of your group and enhance the five components of healthy group life.Community activities for the four stages of a group's life help you to get acquainted, go deeper with one another, process conflict, make memories and prepare for your group's ending.Whether charismatic, liturgical or somewhere in between, you'll find ideas for worship and prayer that stretch group members in these vital areas of spiritual growth. Your group will grow closer to one another as you draw near to God together.Ideas for study offer you some creative methods for Bible study and life application as well as ideas for learning through books, videos and other resources.A section on outreach helps your group to look beyond its borders and serve the needs of others. You'll find ideas for inviting others into your group and for working together in evangelism, social action and world mission.Edited by Cindy Bunch, this edition features new ideas gathered from the InterVarsity Press small groups website (www.ivpress.com/smallgroups) and The Small Group Network (www.SmallGroups.com) founded by Michael Mack and now directed by Dan Lentz.Whether you are a small group leader, a group coordinator or a pastor, you will return to this valuable resource again and again..
Price: $5.85 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The heart was there, the vision was set, the motives were genuine . . . but no one showed up. The book will help youth workers program to an audience that they’re not used to reaching. Programming an outreach event is much more than booking a band and a speaker. Unfortunately, most people don’t know that—and the students they wanted to reach aren’t making it there . . . they don’t show up..
Price: $4.11 [Notify me when price goes down.]

MORE DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS, like its popular predecessor DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS, illustrates through first-person narratives that there are no "typical" days in social work, but that professionally trained social workers take on a variety of roles. In this volume, there is more of a focus on macro roles than in the first, although this book also includes "micro"-level stories and illustrates ways in which social workers combine macro, mezzo, and micro level work in their everyday practice.

Here are some of the social work practice settings and roles you will read about:

* working on a national level
* program development and management
* advocacy and organizing
* policy from the inside
* training and consultation
* research and funding
* higher education
* specialized roles in the court system
* faith and spirituality
* domestic violence
* therapy and case management
* employment and hunger

This is social work! Political advocacy, agency management, sex therapy, play therapy, mediation, conducting domestic violence evaluations, writing grants, doing research, providing food for the hungry, and more--these are all roles that social workers can (and do!) play.

This easy-to-read, hard-to-put-down book will make a welcome supplement to the theory found in traditional textbooks. Find out how social work managers and practitioners put theory into practice on a day-to-day basis.

Organizations, Web sites, and additional readings are listed to assist readers in further exploring areas of social work that are interest..
Price: $16.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]