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    <title>Discerning your congregation's future</title>
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    <extent>174 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Discernment, Theology and prayer / Before you begin / Getting started / Ministry Assessment / An evening of Historical Reflection / An evening of Norm Identification / Interviewing Key people in the Community / Prioritizing Goals / The Congregational meeting / Developing a Mission Statement / Guidelines for Fasting / Strength at the Center: A Congregational Health Inventory / Centering Prayer / How to Minister effectively in family, pastoral, program, and corporate sized churches</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Roy M. Oswald and Robert E. Friedrich.</note>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="20">254.6</classification>
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