R.E.S.P.E.C.T

A ministry message to and about boomer adults—the impact they have had in everything they have touched and will continue to have, including in churches. A concise look at the baby-boomer generation and how its members are relating to the church.


Chapters:

• 1. The Times They Are A'Changin': Meaningful Ministry to Baby Boomers in Your Church and Community - Introduction by Bill Craig, director of Leadership and Adult ministry; provides background for the book and research

• 2. My Generation: Who are boomers?

• 3. Satisfaction (I Can't Get No): Boomers and the church yesterday, today, and tomorrow

• 4. Fun, Fun, Fun: First steps to starting meaningful Boomer Ministry in your church and community

• 5. Come Together: Connect Establishing relationships between boomers and God, the church, and each other

• 6. Blowin' In the Wind: Grow Leading boomers to know God's Word and how it makes a difference in their lives every day

• 7. Light My Fire: Serve Enlisting boomers to invest themselves in meaningful ministry through the church

• 8. Pass It On: Go Challenging boomers to reach others with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through evangelism and missions


Features:

• Inexpensive ministry message

• Written in a conversational voice

• Includes testimonies from boomers represented in research

• Highlights several representative churches doing ministry with emerging boomers

• Each section identified by song titles that represent eras in which boomers grew up

• Based on extensive research and demographics into boomers and boomer ministry

• Low cost allows more individuals/leaders to access research and its implications

• Helps church leaders understand changes that will be coming in their churches as boomers age

• May be used by individuals or ministry teams to work through together as needed/desired

• Unpacks LifeWay's Adult Ministry Strategy—Connect Grow Serve Go—for use with boomer adults