Bøger af Cynthia Stokes Brown

Seasoned ministry leaders know that volunteers are hard to find. Parents are often busy and stressed. Youth workers get confused and burnt out. It's easy to be discouraged by or question the impact of your church's children's ministry!Cynthia Brown, author of Energizing Your Children's Ministry, deeply understands the eternal significance of children's ministry. That's why she gathered her vast experience (over 40 years in children's ministry) and personal anecdotes into a practical tool for church workers and volunteers who are passionate about outreach to God's littlest disciples.She starts with the foundational understanding that re-evaluating your children's ministry is as basic as your ABCDs: assess your church's needs, build relationships, create a leadership team, and then define the focus.These crucial steps are key in creating and leading children's programs that inspire and educate children and their families.So whether you teach Sunday school, VBS, preschool, or another children's ministry, this inspiring book will encourage you to intentionally and prayerfully reach children with the Good News of the Gospel.

The newest way to think about the universe becomes engaging and personal in Big History, Small World by Cynthia Stokes Brown. Her clear introduction to big history, divided into eight thresholds of time, is the perfect starting point for any reader intrigued by this rich blend of history and science.

';This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shapedand how they in turn shaped the world we know today.' Publishers Weekly This book offers ';world history on a grand scale'pulling back for a wider view and putting the relatively brief time span of human history in context. After all, our five thousand years of recorded civilization account for only about one millionth of the lifetime of our planet (Kirkus Reviews). Big History interweaves different disciplines of knowledge, drawing on both the natural sciences and the human sciences, to offer an all-encompassing account of history on Earth. This new edition is more relevant than ever before, as we increasingly grapple with accelerating rates of change and, ultimately, the legacy we will bequeath to future generations. Here is a path-breaking portrait of our world, from the birth of the universe from a single point the size of an atom to life on a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by seven billion people.