Format: (eBook)
ISBN 13: 9780996673518
Publisher: Lay Pastors Ministry, INC
Publication Date: 09/15/2015

"When are you going to do something about pastoring our people?" When he heard that cry, Dr. Melvin Steinbron realized that the centuries-long traditional roles of the clergy and laity - with the clergy doing the pastoring and the laity receiving it - is woefully inadequate to care for all the needs of people in our churches today. So he decided to do something about it.
Believing that lay people also have ministry gifts, he, along with a team of church members, initiated a program to enable the laity to share in pastoring the congregation. You, too, can form a lay pastoring ministry which will benefit both pastor and congregation.
This is much more than a how-to book. It's a how-it's-being-done-and-you-can-do-it-too book. The lengthy track record of thousands of lay people doing effective pastoring assures you that lay people can indeed to the pastoring.

Melvin J. Steinbron is now retired living happily in Minnesota. He served on the staff of Hope Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, MN, and College Hill Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, OH, where he developed his nationally recognized Lay Pastors Ministry. He attended River Falls State College in Wisconsin, received his M.Div. from Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary in Minneapolis and his D.Min. from United Theological Sminary in Dayton, OH.