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1 in the Audio/Visual Library? For the CHILDREN! VEGGIE TALES: The Wonderful Wizard of Ha s (DVD) Meet Darby, the son of a Kansas floss farmer who just wants to have fun! When he learns about the Wonderful Land of Ha s, where you can do whatever you want, Darby is determined to go even against his father s wishes. But when he reaches Ha s, will he find all he s searching for...and at what price? Will it be worth everything Darby has given up his home back on the farm? His father s love? Harvesting floss? Find out in the all-new family adventure that reminds kids everywhere that there s nothing like forgiveness and there s no place like home. Running time: approximately 49 minutes. THE VERY FIRST NOEL (DVD) Long before the world began celebrating Christmas, a baby was born in a manger. History s beloved story of the Three Wise Men is now an all-new animated Christmas classic! A beautifully animated holiday special that will joyfully draw families together every Christmas for years to come. Andy Griffith is the voice of Melchior, one of the Three Wise Men. He narrates the story of his travels in search of a magnificent start pointing him to a newborn King. Running time: approximately 23 minutes. ADULT STUDIES BEGINNINGS: An Introduction to Christian Faith (DVD or VHS) Beginnings is a 9-12 week small-group study about basic Christian beliefs. It is intended for adults hungry for an intentional walk with God that encourages a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It targets inquirers, explorers, seekers, and new church members and is designed to begin where these adults are on their spiritual journey. In each two-hour session, participants will share a meal, watch a short video/dvd segment, engage in meaningful discussion and reflection, study Scripture, explore Christian faith and teachings, and grow in depth of experience through the small group. (Spiritual Growth) CHARLES WESLEY: The Story of Hymn Writer (DVD) Hymns of Praise Charles Wesley has penned more than 6,500 magnificent hymns. Some are among the most beloved in Christian history - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, and many others appear in the hymnals of every Christian denomination. In this fascinating one-man play, you ll hear the true stories of the early days of Methodism, the events that led up to his conversion, his brother John s Aldersgate Experience, and the astonishing events that unfolded as the Wesley brothers first began to preach - and sing - in the fields of England.

2 DON T PUT A PERIOD WHERE GOD PUT A COMMA (DVD) Self-Esteem for Christians by Nell Mohney In Don t Put a Period Where God Put a Comma, Mohney describes how you can overcome low self-esteem and feelings of inferiority or unworthiness by accepting God s love and seeing yourself as a new creation. There are 8 weekly sessions, 10 minutes each. Kit contains a DVD, leader s guide, and one book. (Inspiration/Motivational/ General) 2 THE EFIRD BIBLE STUDY SERIES (Now available on DVD!) Take the intimidation out of Bible study through a new video series from Dr. Mickey Efird. Dr. Efird helps you to understand what the scriptures say and what they mean to us today. Dr. Efird has been training pastors for over 40 years at Duke Divinity School and delivering his acclaimed Bible studies in churches of most denominations. The study kit includes the DVD, facilitator s guide and a copy of the student workbook. Studies Available on DVD are: The Psalms DVD Kit The Birth Narratives Kit The Gospel of Mark DVD Kit The Gospel of Luke DVD Kit The Gospel of John DVD Kit The Passion Narratives DVD Kit ACTS DVD Kit Romans DVD Kit Revelation DVD Kit GIFTS Of HOPE: UMCOR in Darfur (DVD) Gifts of Hope tells a story of lives transformed by the gift of hope through the United Methodist Committee on Relief s work in South Darfur. UMCOR helps people uprooted by conflict and struggling with a lack of resources work toward a better future. Programs that provide relief supplies, water, seeds, tools, and schools give people the tools they need for today and prepare them for tomorrow. INVITATION TO GENESIS (DVD or VHS) INVITATION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT (DVD or VHS) INVITATION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT (DVD or VHS) INVITATION TO JOHN (DVD) INVITATION TO ROMANS (DVD or VHS) Short-Term DISCIPLE Bible Studies Now DISCIPLE introduces new series of small-group studies called Short-Term DISCI- PLE Bible Studies. This new series offers congregations an opportunity to make available the in-depth study of Scripture in a short-term format. Kits includes: VHS or DVD; leader guide; and one book. (Biblical Studies/General)

3 LIVING FULLY, DYING WELL A Study for Small Groups (DVD) By: Rueben Job Our best decisions about life s most important events are seldom made in a time of crisis. Living Fully, Dying Well is designed to assist us in making careful, wise and prayerful preparation for meeting life s most important moments. This study for groups of all ages inspires us to talk open about faith and mortality. Chapters include: Living Fully; Theology of Aging; Our Culture of Aging; Finding Purpose and Meaning; Getting It All Together: Practical Decisions; Dying Well; What Happens When We Die?; How Then Shall We Live? 3 LIVING THE GOOD LIFE TOGETHER ATTENTIVENESS: being present (DVD) A Study of Christian Character in Community Are you too busy for God? It sounds sacrilegious, but that s how many of us feel. In this study, authors Susan Pendleton Jones and L. Gregory Jones help us examine our busy lives and learn how to be present with ourselves, with each other, and with God. Topics include: Listening to the Right Voices; Keeping Time; Self-Awareness; Listening Alone, Listening Together. This kit includes: a study and reflection guide; DVD; leader guide. (Christian Living/Spiritual Growth/General) LIVING THE GOOD LIFE TOGETHER FORGIVENESS: letting go (DVD) A Study of Christian Character in Community Christians talk a lot about forgiveness, but our actions don t always measure up to our words. Why is it so hard to forgive? In this study, authors Susan Pendleton Jones and L. Gregory Jones help us fact that question honestly and together, work toward embodying God s gracious forgiveness of us. Topics include: The Heart of Christian Living; Crafting Communities of Forgiveness; The Dance of Forgiveness; Challenges to Forgiveness. This kit includes: a study and reflection guide; DVD; leader guide. (Christian Living/Spiritual Growth/General). MAKING LOVE LAST A LIFETIME (VHS or DVD) Biblical Perspectives on Love, Marriage, and Sex Adam Hamilton Making Love Last a Lifetime is a small-group study that is more than a small-group study. It provides the components to create a powerful small-group experience. In these thoughtful, inspiring video presentations, Adam Hamilton offers some keys to developing a healthy, satisfying, and successful marriage. If you are single, these videos can equip and prepare you to have a successful relationship. If you are married, they can help you grow in your relationship with your spouse so that you can experience all that God intends a marriage to be. Kit includes: VHS or DVD; leader s guide; one book; CD-ROM with Pastor s Guide. (Bible Study/Couples Ministries/Small Groups/ Worship/Evangelism)

4 4 Resources on Mental Health Ministries DVDs available on: Breaking the Silence: Postpartum Depression & Families of Faith Mental Health Mission Moments (2 to 3 minute segments for discussion starters) Creating Caring Congregations VHS Tapes on: Creating Caring Congregations Mental Illness and Families of Faith Teenage Depression and Suicide Overcoming Stigma, Finding Hope Gifts of The Shadow Alzheimer s: Care and Support Anxiety Disorders: Overcoming the Fear Eating Disorders: Wasting Away Addiction and Depression Understanding Depression OLD TESTAMENT STORIES FROM THE BACK SIDE (DVD) A Video Study Featuring J. Ellsworth Kalas J. Ellsworth Kalas brings to your group his years of experience as a preacher, educator, public speaker, and author. In Old Testament Stories from the Back Side, Kalas opens up new possibilities of insight into selected stories by entering them through a unique starting point, a creative retelling, or the eyes of a minor or unsympathetic character. Kit includes: DVD (12 weekly sessions 10 minutes each); leader s guide; one book. (Bible Study/Inspiration/Small Groups) OPENING OURSELVES TO GRACE: Basic Christian Practices A Four Session Small Group Study on DVD on the Means of Grace in the Wesleyan Tradition (DVD & CD-ROM) Opening Ourselves to Grace explores the basic practices of Christian faith and life from a Wesleyan tradition. This study contains both a DVD and a CD-ROM with video content and written resources, including: a four-chapter video presentation on Wesley s understanding of spiritual practice; a six-week Bible study based on the video presentations; a discussion guide for group leaders; and additional resources for leaders and participants. Through this video and Bible study, you will experience the historic spiritual disciplines perhaps for the first time and you will grow in your love of God and neighbor. PARABLES FROM THE BACK SIDE (DVD) A Video Study featuring J. Ellsworth Kalas J. Ellsworth Kalas brings to your group his years of experience as a preacher, educator, public speaker, and author. Parables from the Back Side is one of his most popular books, and it is the first one of his most popular books, and it is the firs in which he adopted the approach of taking familiar Bible stories or Scripture passages and looking at them in new and unexpected ways. Kit includes: DVD (12 weekly sessions 10 minutes each); leader s guide; one book. (Bible Study/Inspiration/Small Groups)

5 PROACTIVE PARENTING (DVD) FaithHome ProActive Parenting with Jim Williams With the FaithHome ProActive Parenting series, you don t have to be a parenting expert to lead an effective parenting class. Using the DVDs, it s easy to coordinate a class and facilitate the discussions. Parenting 101: The Basics of Becoming a Proactive Parent (DVD) Parenting 101 helps parents outline a plan for parenting based on their family s priorities and values. The four weekly sessions are: Navigating Through Troubled Waters; Developing a Parenting Plan; Managing the Balancing Act ; and Keeping Your Family Strong. 5 Discipline with Children and Teens (DVD) Discipline with Children and Teens helps parents develop reasonable boundaries, limits and consequences for their children at each stage of childhood and teen development. Jim s focus is empowering children to be responsible, accountable and dependable by the time they leave the parental home. The four weekly sessions are: Empowering Your Children; Setting Limits and Boundaries; Establishing Effective Consequences: Getting It Right; Establishing Effective Consequences: Becoming a Team. Single Parenting (DVD) Single Parenting explores the basic fundamentals of parenting including a basic parenting plan, family priorities, discipline and time management through the unique perspective of a single parent. The four weekly sessions are: Coping as a Single Parent; Leading Your Family Along the Right Path; Confronting the Challenges of Discipline; Providing for Your Family s Needs. Communication with Your Child or Teen (DVD) Communication with Your Child or Teen helps adults learn to be better listeners and model good communication techniques for the whole family. The four weekly sessions are: Recognizing the Barriers We Build; Understanding Your Child s Ages and Stages; Learning Your Child s Communication Style ; Improving Communication in your Home. Handling Anger in Your Home (DVD) Handling Anger helps parents learn new ways to manage their own feelings of anger and frustration. By modeling good habits of control and communication, parents can better teach their children to handle their own emotions in a positive way. The four weekly sessions are: Understanding the Difference Between Anger and Rage; Addressing the Causes of Your Negative Feelings; Handling Your Negative Feelings in a Positive Way; Helping Your Children Deal with Their Anger. Your Family and Money (DVD) Your Family and Money suggests ways that parents and other adults in the family can help children develop both good money values and money management skills at an early age through allowances, simple budgets, savings and learning to delay spending. Teen topics include long term savings, handing employment and preparing for handling checking, credit and saving accounts in adulthood. The four weekly sessions are: Becoming a Good Steward; Teaching Your Children About Earning Money; Helping Your Children Budget Their Money; Con trolling the Artificial Star.

6 SERIOUS ANSWERS TO HARD QUESTIONS (DVD) What about? Life presents us with many hard questions. In this thoughtprovoking course, ten leading theologians address ten issues that present obstacles to faith for many both in and outside of the church. Featuring ten video lessons hosted by Bishop Kenneth Carder. This course kit contains: DVD with 10 video lessons approximately 30 minutes each; leader s guide; and one participant's guide. SERVING FROM THE HEART (CD-ROM) Finding Your Gifts and Talents for Service Build confidence and commitment among adults as they discover their own unique gifts and talents for service in the church. Finding the inspiration to serve and connecting with service opportunities begins a path to lifelong service. This 4 to 8 session study leads adults through assessing their own: spiritual gifts; talents and abilities; resources; individuality; dreams; and experiences. All these assets add up to a unique ability to serve God and neighbor. Components: leader book and an enhanced CD- ROM. (Sunday School/small groups/retreats) LEADERSHIP FROM THE HEART (DVD-ROM) Learning to Lead with Love and Skill Leadership From the Heart is a ten-session group study that leads adults through key areas of Christian growth, servant leadership and team building. Components: leader book and an enhanced DVD-ROM. (Sunday School/small groups/retreats) SISTERS Bible Study for Women (DVD or VHS) FINDING BALANCE: Loving God with Heart and Soul, Mind and Strength This six-week Sisters study will help the women in the group consider the question of balance in their lives between service and worship, duty and devotion, doing and being. Author Becca Stevens will guide the study, examining the lives of New Testament women such as Mary and Martha, Lydia, Mary the mother of Jesus, the Canaanite woman, and Mary Magdalene. Stevens will conclude the study by exploring the anointing of Jesus Christ, in which women played a crucial role. Kit includes: DVD and VHS ; leader s guide; participant s book. (Bible Study/ Women s Ministries/Small Groups) SISTERS Bible Study for Women (DVD or VHS) KNOWING GOD: Making God the Main Thing in My Life This six-week Sisters study will help women in the group deepen their relationship with God, apply biblical truths to daily life, and build and strengthen their faith community. Reisman explores our existing relationship with God through a series of questions, such as: who is this God we believe in? How has our relationship with God unfolded in our lives? Who are we in relationship to God? Kit includes: DVD and VHS ; leader s guide; participant s book. (Bible Study/ Women s Ministries/Small Groups) THIS IS CHRISTIANITY (DVD) By Maxie Dunnam In This Is Christianity, Maxie Dunnam uses the framework of the Apostles Creed to discuss key beliefs of the Christian faith in a way that is compelling and easy to understand. Kit includes: DVD with 7 weekly sessions 10 minutes each; leader s guide; participant book. (Christian Faith/Inspiration/Small Groups) 6

7 TRANSFORMED GIVING (DVD & CD-ROM) Realizing Your Church s Full Stewardship Potential How can a forty-day church-wide study produce a successful stewardship campaign? By unifying and transforming the members of your congregation. Transformed Giving takes the focus off finances and puts it on individual spiritual development and a new sense of Christian community. You ll see your members grow spiritually and transform their commitment to increased church attendance, prayer, service, and yes, financial giving. The kit includes: study book; participant s workbook; leader s guide with DVD; campaign handbook; campaign media CD-ROM. (Stewardship/Church Finance) YES, LORD, I HAVE SINNED, BUT I HAVE SEVERAL EXCELLENT EXCUSES (DVD) By James W. Moore In his book Yes, Lord, I Have Sinned, But I Have Several Excellent Excuses, Moore observes that people often give excuses for their arrogance, dishonesty, presumptuousness, and poor choices. He reminds us that God sees through our excuses, and he challenges us to grow beyond them. Kit includes DVD with 12 weekly sessions 10 minutes each; leader s guide; participants book. (Spiritual Growth/Christian Living/Small Groups) 7