Total Ministry

Welcome to the Total Ministry section of the diocesan website!

In 2005 the Total Ministry Development Group decided it would be helpful to have a summary of the principles of a baptismal theology of church and ministry, as well as the vision for the Total Ministry program. Please see the resulting work as it was distilled from the experience of ministry developers: "Theological Foundations" and "Total Ministry Goals". We hope you will find this a valuable resource, and a good place to begin understanding what we mean by Total Ministry.

Click here to learn more about the diocesan Total Ministry Development Group.

RESOURCES



Click here to read the Total Ministry issue of Together in Mission.

Click here to read  more about Together in Mission magazine.

TOTAL MINISTRY CONGREGATIONS IN OUR DIOCESE

St. Francis’, Willits
St. Stephen’s, Colusa
St. Timothy’s, Gridley
Holy Trinity, Willows
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QUESTIONS?

For more information on Total Ministry, please contact Deacon Phina Borgeson via e-mail to phinaborgeson@sbcglobal.net.

Recommended Reading

for folks who want to know about Total Ministry

Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours
by Roland Allen

Compulsion of the Spirit
by Roland Allen

*Total Ministry
by Stuart Zabriskie

New Growth in God's Garden
by Margaret Babcock

Born of Water, Born of Spirit
by Thompsett & Kujawa

*I Have Called You Friends: An Invitation to Ministry
by Kevin Thew-Forrester

Listening Hearts
by Farnham, Gill and
McLean, Ward

Simpler Living, Compassionate Life
ed. Michael Schut

Weeds among the Wheat
by Thomas Green

The Churches the Apostles Left Behind
by Raymond Brown

*Bi-Vocationals
by James Lower, Jr.

Classics of Western Spirituality
by William Law

Grounded in God: Listening Hearts Discernment for Group Deliberations
by Suzanne Farnham

*Living on the Border of the Holy – Renewing the Priesthood of All
by William Countryman

Quantum Changes in How we do Ministry
by Eddie Gibbs

The Church in the Marketplace
by Archbishop Carey

A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
by Edwin H. Friedman

* Great “starter” books

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