HANDBOOK
OF PLANNING IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
HANDBOOK
OF PLANNING
IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
edited by Nancy T. Foltz
Summary: This comprehensive book helps religious educators to effectively plan the process of developing, implementing, and evaluating a successful religious education program no matter what setting in which the program takes place. It views planning as a seamless process which takes place before every phase of the ongoing religious education program.
Spirit of the Book: The spirit of this book is success-success in making a religious education program into the most effective program it can be. Without short-term and long-term planning, a religious education program will surely perish. This comprehensive book provides both the vision and the tools to plan for success.
What this Book Gives You: Planning is the mother's milk of a successful religious education program. There can be no genuine or long-lasting success without skillful planning all along the line. This book gives you virtually everything you need to know about effective planning a truly effective religious education program. Consequently this volume will be your sure guide to constantly updating and improving your program.
Distinctiveness: Why this Book is Special: This is the most comprehensive, most thorough, and most richly detailed book on religious education planning ever published. It places state-of-the-art research on planning at the direct disposal of religious educators. Step-by-step it guides religious educators in developing their own successful planning ideas and initiatives to ensure the success of their own programs.
Major Features: Major features of this very helpful book include: (1) it provides a host of charts which help religious educators effectively develop their own effective planning; (2) it contains chapters written by some of the most renowned planners in the church today: (3) it shows how to work effectively in planning teams; (4) it infuses a deeply religious spirit and vision into the overall planning process.
Chapters
1. Planning in
Religious Education as Making Midrash
2. Understanding how Beliefs and Values
Affect Planning Today
3. Transforming Moments of Conflict and Forgiveness
Throughout the Planning Process
4. Knowing the Difference Between Operational
and Strategic Planning
5. Assessing the Needs of the Congregation as a Key to
Planning
6. Engaging Effective Planning Teams
7. Evaluating the Planning
Process
8. Inviting Ownership Beyond the Planning Team
9. Imagining
Religious Education Anew: A Planning Perspective
Contributors: Contributors to this book include some nationally renowned church planners) Paul Dietterich, Douglas Alan Walrath, Gilbert Rendle, Estelle Roundtree McCarthy, Trenton Ferro, Bradley Shavit Artson, Elizabeth Caldwell, and Nancy Foltz.
Praise for this Book: This book has been highly praised:
CONNIE LEEAN SERAPHINE, Coordinator for Distance Learning of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and author of LEARNING PROJECTS... writes; Thanks to this handbook, there is no longer any excuse for not having an effective, relevant, and faith-deepening religious education program. If you are ready to be bold and inventive in your planning, this is the book for you."
THOMAS WALTERS, past president of the National Conference of Catechetical Leadership and author of THE DRE; YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW says: "Here is a volume which belongs on the 'must read' list of every religious educator. I highly recommend this volume."
WARREN BENSON of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and co-author of CHRISTIAN EDUCATION; ITS HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY writes:."With consummate skill, each chapter of this high quality handbook helps religious educators."
EZRA EARL JONES of The General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church and author of THE QUEST FOR QUALITY IN THE CHURCH writes: "This volume is the new primary source for assisting the church to be who it is as a learning organization."
Price and
Such:
291 pages List Price:
$24.95 ISBN 0-89135-102-7