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Helping Church Planting Wives get Beyond Duct Tape
Check out a review of Parakaleo's book Beyond Duct Tape: Holding the Heart Together in a Life of Ministry on ByFaith web magazine.
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DUCT TAPE CONTEST WINNERS!!!
Thank you to everyone who submitted photos for our contest! In celebration of our upcoming book, Beyond Duct Tape, we asked you to show us your most creative use for duct tape. Your hilarious and creative responses made choosing a winner extremely difficult! Join us in congratulating our winners!
FIRST PLACE - Holly Tutor from Nashville, TN! Holly wins a weekend in New York City!
SECOND PLACE - Katie Sica from Wilmington, DE! Katie and our third place winners will receive autographed copies of Beyond Duct Tape.
THIRD PLACE - We have a tie for third place, Bethany Shattuck and Tessa Pickren, both from Atlanta, GA!
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Beyond Duct Tape — Holding the Heart Together in a Life of Ministry
Church planting and pastoral ministry can be lonely, stressful, and ambiguous. This resource, written by seasoned church planting spouses, addresses the essential truths that impact survival in ministry: story, gospel, idolatry, identity and calling, and community. Each of the five units includes myths, personal stories, and tools for deeper understanding and application. While the focus is on church planting, the tools can be used in any area of leadership and ministry.
Shari Thomas [left] and Tami Resch have over fifty years of combined ministry experience. Shari and her husband, John, have partnered in church planting in worldclass cities since the early 1980s. They currently reside in New York City. Shari conducted research on the stress and satisfaction levels of church planting spouses in the U.S. and developed the Church Leader Spouse Inventory used in many church planting assessments. Tami Resch and her husband, Steve, have co-labored in three church plants since 1991, and currently serve Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Ohio.
In 2005, Shari and Tami founded Parakaleo, a ministry that provides gospel coaching, training, and network development for spouses in church planting in cities across the globe.
“Everyone who has been through church planting knows that it is a family affair. It’s ‘all hands on deck’ — the church planter’s wife and children are deeply involved. Yet spouses of church planters at most get a chapter in books on church planting — if they are fortunate. Here, however, Shari Thomas and Tami Resch have written and assembled an entire volume, filled with all kinds of tools, helping wives to not only cope with the intense thing that is church planting, but to grow powerfully and minister effectively. I’m grateful for their work.”
Dr. Tim Keller
Author of Generous Justice and The Reason for God
Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City
To be released summer 2011 on www.amazon.com and www.parakaleo.us
