Loving Your Community, Stephen Viars
Loving Your Community, Stephen Viars
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Loving Your Community
Proven Practices for Community-Based Outreach Ministry

Author: Stephen Viars

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 6 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/04/2020

Synopsis

Are you and your church making a difference in your community? Are you meeting needs in a positive, proactive, and loving way? Too often when churches are presented with a need outside their walls, they operate on the principle of "Say no unless you have to say yes." Don't want that to be your church's legacy in your community? Drawing on more than 30 years of service to the community surrounding Faith Church in Indiana, pastor Stephen Viars shows you how to develop a dynamic, giving relationship with your community, one in which your natural response to needs is "Yes! How can we help?" No matter the size, location, demographics, or issues in your community, the approach found in this practical book will help you improve people's lives, draw them into productive conversation about the hope you have in Christ, and glorify God.

About Stephen Viars

Stephen Viars has served as a pastor and biblical counselor at Faith Church and Faith Biblical Counseling Ministries in Lafayette, Indiana, since 1987. A frequent speaker at conferences, colleges, and seminaries, he also serves on the boards of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, the Biblical Counseling Coalition, Vision of Hope, and the Faith Community Development Corporation. The author of Loving Your Community, he and his wife, Kris, have three children and four grandchildren.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on March 02, 2020

Summary: A pastor whose church has developed a number of community-based outreach ministries, describes their journey into this work, and the variety of ministries that have resulted. Is the motto of your church "Say no unless you have to say yes" or "Say yes unless you have to say no"? That is a que......more

Goodreads review by Blake on August 25, 2021

Periodically, a book comes along that, shall I say, "Challenges the proverbial socks off of me." I could list a fair number of such books but Loving Your Community is one that both provides a challenge to my heart but also gets me very excited about potential ministry opportunities. Many of us, as t......more

Goodreads review by Travis on February 26, 2020

I’ve been looking forward to reading this book for quite a bit now. I received the book through Baker Books Bloggers about 2 months ago, just about the time the two churches I serve in were identifying community outreach as a significant need. I was finally able to sit down and read this book over t......more

Goodreads review by Aurelia on November 11, 2020

And on a completely different note, let's talk about this book. "Say yes unless you have to say no." This is the guiding principle at Faith Church in Lafayette, Indiana. And this is the premise that this book is based upon. After reading this book, I want to go out and do all the things and make all......more

Goodreads review by Angela on January 29, 2020

This book did exactly what the title suggests, gave a clear outline of how to love our community. I found it to be very well written with scriptural basis and biblical examples of serving well and also practical applications for any leader willing to be creative in impacting their community for the......more

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