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Alphabetical listing of Articles and Downloads on www.LBC.org

 

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Icon 10 Things to Know About Leading Young Adults

-by Sam Rainer
Leading the next generation requires an attitude of indebtedness to the followers—leaders don’t exist without followers. So let me share with you a few critical issues from the perspective of these young adult followers.

Icon 2009 Annual LBC

Annual of the Louisiana Baptist Convention
162nd Annual Meeting
November 9-10, 2009
Summer Grove Baptist Church
Shreveport, Louisiana

Icon 2010 Budget Distribution

Louisiana Baptist Convention Cooperative Program For World Missions and Related Causes Projected Budget Distribution

Icon ACP - More Than Just Numbers

The ACP provides a comprehensive picture of what God is doing among Southern Baptists. It may look like just numbers and names, but it's a whole lot more than that.

Icon Adult Discipleship Strategy

A course in personal Discipleship
to strengthen your walk with God

Icon Adult Ministry Strategy

By Bret Robbe

Icon Adult Sunday School Organization Guide

Open Group Adult Sunday School Class Model

Icon Associational VBS Clinics Final Report

To Be Returned to Children's Ministry Office

Icon Baptist Doctrine Study 2010 Soul Shaping

Disciplines That Conform You to the Image of Christ

Icon Beginning a Literacy Ministry

This is an overview of the basic tasks involved in organizing a literacy missions ministry.

Icon Bible Drill Resources-2011

4th - 12th grade

Icon Biblical Disciple Making, Part 1

How Jesus Made Disciples

Icon Biblical Disciple Making, Part 2

How Can Jesus’ Church Make Disciples?

Icon Boomer Research

By Dr. Bill Craig

Icon Buckets of Hope 4 the Coast

5 gallon bucket containing food items to aid people of the Gulf Coast.

Icon Building a Basic Library

Suggested volumes for starting a pastoral library.

Icon Campaign For Capital Funds Manual

For Raising Funds to Help Meet the Capital or Asset Building Needs of Your Church or Organization

Icon Campers on Mission Enrollment Form

Send completed form to COM Secretary-Treasurer

Icon Care and Hope Ministry Worksheet

Web Site Worksheet for Care and Hope Ministries

Icon Children's Procedural Pamphlet-Green Cycle

4th - 6th grade

Icon Children's Score Sheet

4th - 6th grade

Icon Children's Verse Card-Green Cycle-HCS

4th - 6th grade

Icon Children's Verse Card-Green Cycle-KJV

4th - 6th grade

Icon Children's Verse Card-Green Cycle-NIV

4th - 6th grade

Icon Childrens Sample Drill-Green Cycle

4th - 6th grade

Icon Church Renewal Journey Pastors Guide

For the Lay Renewal Weekend

Icon Church Starting Interest Questionnaire
Icon Community Needs Assessment

A simple strategy to discover mission needs in your area.

Icon Community Needs Assessment Checklist

Outline to help with the planning and follow through of a Community Needs Assessment.

Icon Community Needs Assessment Time Line

A four to six week timeline for completing a Community Needs Assessment.

Icon Cooperation Key to Resurgence

Dr. Hankins' thoughts on the Great Commision Resurgence

Icon Cooperative Program - Why Does it Exist?

"Why Does the Cooperative Program Exist?" Ministering to Others is Always “the Right Thing to Do.”

Icon Disaster Relief Product Brochure
A brochure of Disaster Relief products is now available for download with items such as Aprons, Water Bottles, Scrubs and more.
Icon Don’t Let Them Drop—Connect Them

LifeWay project connects students in transition
By Mandy Trammell

Icon EKG-Acts 1:8 Budget Planning

Helping Balance Between Local Expenditures and Missions Giving

Icon EKG-Acts 1:8 Challenge WorkBook

Jerusalem and Judea Church Mission Action Workbook

Icon EKG-Celebration Event

Event to be held at the conclusion of Phase 2 - A Kingdom Strategy

Icon EKG-Church Renewal Journey

Pastor's Guide for the Acts 1:8 Weekend

Icon EKG-Diagnostic Questions

Both Pre-Test and Post-Test Questions

Icon EKG-LA Church Planning Guide

Introduction, Organization, and Procedure for EKG-LA

Icon EKG-Prove the Tithe Day

A Tool to Promote an Ongoing Stewardship Emphasis in Your Church

Icon EKL-LA Materials Order Form

How Much will EKG-LA Co$t the Church?

Icon Essential Church

Reclaiming a Generation of Dropouts
By Thom S. Rainer and Sam S. Rainer III

Icon Essentials for Excellence

Free Sunday School Downloads.  Find a wealth of planning, preparation, implementation, and training resources for adult, preschool, childhood, and student Sunday School ministry.

Icon Every Church Needs - Leadership Training

Suggested Topics for Leadership Training

Icon Every Church Needs - New Believer Training

Suggested Topics for New Believer Training

Icon Every Church Needs - New Member Training

Suggested Topics for New Member Training

Icon FAQs - Sharing the Peace of Jesus

Top questions from Sharing the Peace of Jesus

Icon Fifty Ways to Love Your Pastor, Staff, and their Spouses

Your pastor, staff and their families are the key to your church’s future.

Icon Fit for the Fight 01-2010

Pastor, are you well?
How you answer this question reveals a willingness, or lack thereof, to honestly evaluate who and how you are.

Icon Fit for the Fight 02-2010

The body of Christ and her leaders should be concerned about wellness, as it is can be an articulation of biblical spirituality in living the Great Commandment.

Icon Fit for the Fight 03-2010

Can you see the need for wellness?  A lack of concern for wellness can be easily observed, both in and out of the body of Christ.

Icon Fit for the Fight 04-2010

Pastor, Is Wellness Absent from Your Vocation? The calling of a pastor is a demand for wholeness and holiness.

Icon Fit for the Fight 05-2010

Pastor, Is Your Duty Description Well? It may sound odd, but a duty description that is not well is going to produce chaos, plain and simple.

Icon Fit for the Fight 07-2010

Pastor, Is Your Theology Well? Pastor is your theology well? Is your understanding and application of the physical and the spiritual holistic, and thus, biblical?1 The Relationship of Physical and Spiritual Wellness Noted Christian author, college professor, and former Southern Baptist pastor Dallas Willard agrees that

Icon Founding of the Cooperative Program

Louisiana's Involvment in the founding of the Cooperative Program.

Icon GENERATIONS 1

Overview Information on:
GI Generation (1901-1924)
Silent Generation (1026-1944)
Boomers (1945-1963)
Gen X (1964-1981) 

Icon GENERATIONS 2

Specific information on Boomers

Icon GENERATIONS 3

Specific Information on Young Adults

Icon Giving at Year-End

Information to assist people with making a wise year-end gift.

Icon Guide for Pastors Performing Weddings

Qualifications and Responsibilities of an “officiant” in Louisiana 

Icon High School Procedural Pamphlet-Cycle 3

10th - 12th grade

Icon High School Sample Drill-Cycle 3

10th - 12th grade

Icon High School Score Sheet

10th - 12th grade

Icon High School Verse Card-Cycle 3-HCS

10th - 12th grade

Icon High School Verse Card-Cycle 3-KJV

10th - 12th grade

Icon High School Verse Card-Cycle 3-NIV

10th - 12th grade

Icon Impact Your World Conference

PDF flyer for the Impact Your World pastor's conference in Euless, TX October 12-14, 2009

Icon Involving Southern Baptists in DR Manual

Introduction to SBC DR Processes.  Goes with the Involving Southern Baptists in Disaster Relief Video Training.

Icon IRS Filing Requirements

list of the most frequently required returns, who should use them, how they are used, and when they should be filed

Icon January Bible Study 2010 Parables Handout

Stories For Life: Jesus' Parables of the Kingdom in Matthew

Icon Keyboard Festival Guidelines 2009-2010

Information and Expectations for Keyboard Festival Participants

Icon LBASYC Application Form

Detailed Instructions and Form

Icon LBC Archives Brochure

Describes the content, guidelines, and responsibilities of the LBC Archives

Icon Lost and Found

The Younger Unchurched and the Churches That Reach Them
By Ed Stetzer

Icon Matching Members and Ministry Survey

Worksheet to determine your best fit as an Adult SS class leader

Icon Microfilming Your Church History
One way to preserve the records of your church is by microfilming. The primary purpose of preservation microfilming church records is to provide a replacement of materials for researchers, historians, and future generations of the church.
Icon Mission of Christ's Church

What Are We Supposed to Be Doing?

Icon Multipurpose Space Presentation

Things to Consider When Planning a Multipurpose and Recreation Space Including Ministry Purpose, Planning, and Materials

Icon One-on-One Brochure

Full Brochure of One-on-One Evangelism Made Simple

Icon Online Sermon Player

Good Looking Player with both Sponsored and Paid Options

Icon Partnership Missions Presentation Spring 2009

 Partnership Missions Presentation Spring 2009

Icon PastorLife.com

  • Sermon preparation helps
  • Over 2500 Illustrations
  • Over 2000 sermons
  • Icon Planning A Church Anniversary

    Article outlining the process of planning a church anniversary.

    Icon Planning for Long Term Growth

    Information and Formulas to Help Estimate Long Term Facility Needs

    Icon Preparation for Louisiana Churches

    Flu Pandemic Preparedness 

    Icon Raising Money for Buildings

    What to Look for In a Fund Raising Company

    Icon Risk Management Presentation

    Taking a Proactive Approach Serves as a Deterrent to Suits.  Things to Consider in Risk Management.

    Icon Saddle Ridge Ranch VBS Plans

    Download VBS Plans From LifeWay

    Icon SERVE

    Helping people to discover how God uses their spiritual gifts, experiences, relational style, vocational skills, and enthusiasm to mold them into a servant leader.

    Icon Sharing the Peace of Jesus - Report and Fall Suggestions

    Summary report of Sharing the Peace of Jesus results and suggestions for summer and fall activities.

    Icon Sharing the Peace of Jesus Presentation

    PowerPoint Overview of Sharing the Peace of Jesus

    Icon Singing Women and Singing Ministers Poster

    Promotional Poster available for download

    Icon SmallYouthGroup.com

    Encouragement, Training, and Resources
    for youth leaders in small churches

    Icon Soap Box Derby

    Car and Race Specifications

    Icon Speakers Tournament List of Topics-Cycle 3

    10th - 12th grade

    Icon Speakers Tournament Procedural Pamphlet-Cycle 3

    10th - 12th grade

    Icon Speakers Tournament Score Sheet

    10th - 12th grade

    Icon Spiritual Gifts Survey

    Worksheet to help individuals discover their spiritual gifts

    Icon Sponsor Application

    Interested in Being a Sponsor for All-State Youth Choir?  Apply With This Form.

    Icon Starting a Care and Hope Ministry

      Guidelines for Starting a Care and Hope Ministry

    Icon State of Disciple Making

    How Are We Doing?
    The State of the American Church

    Icon Sunday School - Discipleship Assistance Request

    Online form to request training and consultation assistance in the areas of Sunday School and Discipleship 

    Icon Sunday School-Discipleship Assistance Request Download

    Download version (PDF) that can be filled out and mailed or faxed in.

    Icon Tax & Accounting Resources

    For Churches and Ministers

    Icon Tax Guide for Church and Religious Organizations

    IRA Tax Guide

    Icon The 10 Most Costly Errors in Church Building

    List of the top 10 most Common Costly Errors Made

    Icon The Stewardship of Influence

    America needs Christians to Vote
    by Michael Stewart

    Icon Thirty Essential Volumes for a Pastor

    Recommended Volumes For a Pastor Just Beginning to Build a Library 

    Icon Wedding Officiant Policy

    Sample Policy for Demonstration Purposes

    Icon What Do I Keep

    A general out-line of the items necessary for legal, historical, and financial matters of the church’s history.

    Icon What's This Thing About Podcasting - Part 2?

    Podcasting - the technical side.  Tips to setting up your first podcast.

    Icon What's This Thing About Podcasting, Part 1?

    What is a podcast and how can it help to expand the ministry of the church?

    Icon Who Are We and What Are We Doing Here?

    As the digital media strategist for the LBC, this posting is about the things that fall under my domain as well as a little bit of information to help you get to know me better.

    Icon World Hunger Advocate Registration
    Icon Xtreme Procedural Pamphlet-Titus

    10th - 12th grade

    Icon Xtreme Sample Drill-Titus

    10th - 12th grade

    Icon Xtreme Score Sheet-Titus

    10th - 12th grade

    Icon Young Adults in Southeastern States

    Insights for Healthy Models of Reaching Young Adults

    Icon Youth Ministry Forum Notes - April 25-2008

    Brad Parkhurst, High School Pastor
    Northstar Church, Kennesaw, GA
    "Connecting with Community and Campus Ministry"

    Icon Youth Procedural Pamphlet-Cycle 3

    7th - 9th grade

    Icon Youth Sample Drill-Cycle 3

    7th - 9th grade

    Icon Youth Verse Card-Cycle 3-HCS

    7th - 9th grade

    Icon Youth Verse Card-Cycle 3-KJV

    7th - 9th grade

    Icon Youth Verse Card-Cycle 3-NIV

    7th - 9th grade

    Icon Youth_Score_Sheet

    7th - 9th grade