Pastor Resources Online

Online Resources For Pastors -- Looking for help with your upcoming sermon? Here's a site that features a wealth of information and links for pastors. Includes a Pastor's Forum, Sermon Prep Center, a listing of Ministry Opportunities, Worldwide Prayer Link, and more. http://www.pastornet.com/ (IFC, January 26, 1998).

Software Solution For Pastoral Planning And Record Keeping Ministry Solutions (MS) announces Clergy Mate, a powerful software program for pastors. This program helps a pastor quickly develop complete services for funerals, weddings, baptisms, worship services and more. It automatically organizes the task of record keeping, is user-friendly, and will save hours of preparation time. Take a tour of Clergy Mate online. Order this program at the MS Web site or by calling 1-800-207-3212.

Pastorsnet Links Pastors With Prayer Partners And Caregivers PastorsNet, a new ministry resource by EQUIP/INJOY, links pastors with committed prayer partners and provides an extensive network of caregiving resources for pastors, their spouses and their families. At the PastorsNet Web site, viewers can learn more about the PastorsNet mission (the goal is to reach one million people as year-long intercessors for pastors), order prayer partner resources, read inspirational praise reports and enjoy messages by EQUIP founder John Maxwell and PastorsNet international director, Dennis Worden. Additionally, INJOY offers a 70 percent discount off a large amount of selected ministry resources.

PastorsNet: http://www.gospelcom.net/pastorsnet
EQUIP: http://www.gospelcom.net/equip/
INJOY: http://www.gospelcom.net/injoy/

"Every pastor should have a free e-mail account," according to pastor Rick Warren. At http://www.pastors.com , pastors and church leaders can register for a free 'respectable Internet address'. Warren is the founder and pastor of the Saddleback Community Church in Orange County, California. With 15,000 visitors each weekend, Saddleback Community Church is the second largest church in the USA (after Willow Creek), and "the nation's fastest-growing church" for the last three years, according to one report. Over 9,000 people have decided to become Christians in the Saddleback church, which baptized almost 75% of its members. Since starting in his own house in 1980, Warren has held services in 79 different places, and the church did not have its own center until 1995. They have also started 26 daughter churches in Southern California. 300,000 copies of Warren's book "The Purpose-Driven Church" have been sold in seven languages; 50,000 pastors from 60 different denominations have visited Saddleback's seminars. Source: www.pastors.com and SCC, tel. (+1)-949-581-5683, web site http://www.saddleback.com

Pastor Richard Lee in UK teaches the interdenominational School of Ministry. This is a 2-year-long part- time course on Biblical Studies, Theology, Church History and many other related topics. Subjects on which Christians may have different views are treated sensitively without dogmatism. Much of the material is online at: http://www.schoolofministry.org/ . Most of the course lectures (plus many other relevant documents) are available on a CD. Richard would like to offer it free to Third World pastors and missionaries who have access to a computer with CDRom drive, but only have limited, expensive, or non-existent access to the Internet. Over 60 copies of the CD have already been sent out to many countries. To apply, email Richard at < Richard@schoolofministry.org >. Remember, if you have good Internet access, then please make use of the resource via the website instead. The offer of the CD is only for those who really really need it - please don't abuse the offer. This part-time School of Ministry has limited resources.

Visit The Parsonage For Clergy Appreciation Resources The Parsonage, a Web site of Focus on the Family (FOTF), celebrates Clergy Appreciation Month during October with resources to honor pastors and pastoral families. Church congregations may order a "Clergy Appreciation Month Planning Guide" that offers ways to honor a pastor and family in October and on a long-term basis. Order this guide from Focus on the Family for a suggested donation of $2. Web visitors may request it through the Resource Center online or by calling (1-800-AFAMILY). A Spanish version of the guide is also available. Pastors and their families will also enjoy a visit to "The Parsonage (A Home Page for Ministers and Their Families)" with helpful articles pertaining to the clergy family, a newsletter, an audio-cassette series, a toll-free pastoral care line and more. The Parsonage (FOTF): http://www.family.org/pastor/general/a0007718.html

Zondervan ChurchSource is a resource service to more than 300,000 churches and those who lead them--pastors, staff and volunteers--equipping church leaders for effective ministry. One outstanding service provided by ZCS is the Church Leader Briefing (CLB), a summary of pertinent news stories, updated weekly, that specifically relates to leaders and their churches. This fresh, lively, and far-reaching news report will help leaders gain an understanding of how God is working in other churches and will hopefully create a desire to implement many successful ideas into their own local church planning. Bookmark CLB and check it out each week! Church Leader Briefing: http://www.ZondervanChurchSource.com/brfng.htm

The Living Pulpit (TLP) presents online resources dedicated to the art of the sermon--updated articles, message boards, a Bible search and more. TLP is "a unique source of help to energize sermons renewing confidence in the power of the preached Word." Review 49 articles online, participate in five message boards, and subscribe to a quarterly journal (ordering information online). The Living Pulpit: http://www.pulpit.org/

For pastors who would like to sharpen their preaching skills, a new resource from Olford Ministries International (OMI) might be what you're looking for--a weekly series of theologically-sound, masterfully-constructed sermons from Dr. Stephen Olford, one of the world's leading expository preachers. Olford Ministries International's new "Pastors Plus" program includes a weekly email message from Olford's "Encounter" radio program, a subscription to the quarterly "Angelos" newsletter and discounts on other resources from OMI. Olford Ministries International: http://www.olford.org/
Info on the "Pastors Plus" program: Web@Olford.com

SonLife ministries has excellent resources for pastors, women's ministry and youth pastors. It also has excellent resources on Global Youth Ministry http://www.sonlife.com/ < http://www.sonlife.com/ > .

Prayer Network Newsletter Keeps Pastors Informed Of Prayer Related News National Pastor's Prayer Network (NPPN) invites pastors, prayer leaders and Christians worldwide to subscribe to a free email for prayer-related news, prayer requests, testimonies, articles and resources. Pastors may subscribe to the list, then pass it on to congregations and others. The network also sponsors an international day of prayer. Pastor Phil Maglioratti, NPPN Facilitator, invites readers to the NPPN Web site to find out about pastors' prayer groups and to find an extensive database of articles, news and information. National Pastor's Prayer Network (subscribe online): http://www.nppn.org
Subscription address (by email): subscribe@nppn.org

As Easter approaches, pastors and clergy around the world are preparing special worship services, sermons and programs to celebrate the Resurrection. SermonsNet is offering a free Easter sermon, "Proofs of the Resurrection," to pastors looking for an Easter message to deliver. While at SermonsNet, read sample sermons, sign up for a newsletter and peruse an online catalog of featuring dozens of sermons organized by topic, series and season. For an extra fee, sign up to receive a series of 16 new sermons every two months. If you're a pastor or worship leader looking for fresh sermon ideas, stop by to browse SermonsNet's many resources.
SermonsNet: http://www.sermonsnet.com/
Free Easter sermon (Microsoft Word format): http://www.sermonsnet.com/Data/Special/Easter.doc

In existence since 1977, it has as its main focus, at this time, the assisting of Pastors and Church Leaders in areas of the world where they have not had the opportunity for formal training. This is accomplished through one or two week long seminars consisting of Bible study, equipping, workshops, problem solving, and Q & A sessions. USE has ministered through out the USA and into Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand. Currently, ministries are scheduled for Mexico (June) and Kenya (Sept). Check out http://www.hometown.aol.com/aranyas/USE2.html
The Director, Charles Aranyas may be contacted at Aranyas@aol.com.

FIND MINISTERIAL HELPS AT "TODAY'S PREACHER" WEB SITE TodaysPreacher.com, provides this "one-stop shopping" Web site to help preachers maximize their study time with preaching links, tips, book reviews, movie clips for sermons, sermon illustrations, and various other preaching tools. TodaysPreacher also presents linked resources for a Ministry Job Search. Created by Jason Cruise, a doctoral candidate at Fuller Theological Seminary, the Web site seeks "to encourage preachers of the Gospel to become master communicators who pursue excellence in their preaching; and to promote Bible-based, hermeneutically-sound preaching, utilizing current and contemporary methods of communication in order to reach anybody, anywhere, with the Gospel of Jesus Christ." TodaysPreacher.com: http://www.TodaysPreacher.com/