Loving Your Community by Stephen Viars

 The subtitle, Proven practices for community-based outreach ministry is very apt. I found the practices inside this book to be practical. I enjoyed reading the ideas and how they recommend planning, starting up, and executing the many practices.

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Some of the examples are creating Biblical Counseling, using your facility for something else during the week, creating classes adults can take. These were all ideas I thought any church could dream about and actually begin.

It's later in the book where Stephen tackles some very large-scale projects that felt more in line with mega-churches or churches that teamed up with other local churches. We're talking about going in and restoring entire neighborhoods, building Community Centers, and starting Treatment Programs.

Again, we're given very practical ideas and applications. I have underlined and dogeared many pages in this book.

I look forward to discussing and dreaming with the leadership team about how we might implement some of these ideas.

This book was provided for review, at no cost, by BakerBooks publishing