Free Resources
Here are some free resources from the The Parish Paper that you might find helpful for your congregation:
- The Powerful, Invisible Influence of Core Values: Why Every Congregation Needs to Identify Them
- How to Accomplish Effective Congregational Planning
- Planning and Leading a Miracle Sunday Campaign
- The Secret to Abundant Living: Learning How to Ask
- A Typology for Congregational Health
- Resources for the Church and People with Autism or Other Special Needs
Church Effectiveness Nuggets
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 1: How to Transform Worship Visitors into Regular Attendees
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 2: How to Grow Strong Youth Groups
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 3: How to Prevent and Resolve Congregational Conflict
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 4: How to Increase Worship Attendance
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 5: How to Increase Financial Stewardship
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 6: How to Shrink Your Church’s Inactive Member List
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 7: How to Build Assimilation Bridges for New Members/Attendees
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 8: How to Attract First-Time Worship Visitors
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 9: How to Develop a Congregational "Care Team"
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 10: How to Improve Your Time-Management Skills
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 11: How to Increase Adult Sunday School Attendance
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 12: How to Increase Children and Youth Sunday School Attendance
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 13: How to Sharpen Your Writing Skills
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 14: 25 Turnaround Strategies for Small-Membership Congregations
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 15: How to Obtain Accurate Feedback on Ministry Job Performances
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 16: Clergy and Clergy-Spouse Stress-Management Skills
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 17: Stress-Management: Increasing Your Alligator-Wrestling Skills
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 18: Navigating toward Maximum Effectiveness in Midsize Churches
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 19: How to Increase Local and World Missions Giving
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 20: Speaker Skills: How Not to Sweat It!
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 21: How to Maximize Personnel Committee Effectiveness
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 22: How to Strengthen Clergy/Staff Leadership & Relationship Skills
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 23: Fine-Tuning the Organizational and Communication Engine
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 24: Identifying and Mobilizing Parishioners’ Spiritual Gifts
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 25: Preparing an Annual Congregational Plan Book
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 26: Moving toward God’s Vision in Large Churches
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 27: Coaching Small Congregations toward Positive Change
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 28: Coaching Midsize Congregations toward Positive Change
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 29: How to Encourage People toward a Church-Membership Decision
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 30: How to Talk with People about Financial Giving: 12 Sermons that Motivate
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 31: Money Isn’t/Is Everything: What Jesus Said about the Spiritual Power of Money
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 32: We Are Singing the Right Hymns...Aren’t We?
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 33: Full Disclosure: Everything the Bible Says about Financial Giving
- Church Effective Nugget, Volume 34: Changing a Church’s Culture Changes Its Future