In The Missional Leader consultants Alan Roxburgh & Fred Romanuk give church & denominational leaders pastors & clergy a clear model for leading the change necessary to create & foster a missional church focused outward to spread the message of the Gospel into the surrounding community. The Missional Leader emphasizes principles rather than institutional forms shows readers how to move away from church as usual " & demonstrates what capacities environments & mindsets are required to lead a missional church." ...

Guidance for church leaders to develop their own maps & chart new paths toward stronger more vibrant & more missional congregations In the burgeoning missional church movement churches are seeking to become less focused on programs for members & more oriented toward outreach to people who are not already in church. This fundamental shift in what a congregation is & does & thinks is challenging for leaders & congregants. Using the metaphor of map-making the book explains the perspective & skills needed to lead congregations & denominations in a time of radical change over unfamiliar terrain as churches change their focus from internal to external. Offers a clear guide for leaders wanting to transition to a missional church model Written by Alan Roxburgh a prominent expert & practitioner in the missional movement Guides leaders seeking to create new maps for leadership & church organization & focus A Volume in the popular Leadership Network Series This book is written to be accessible to all Christian congregational styles & denominations. ...

At the start of the American Civil War neither side had warships on either side of the Mississippi River & in the first few months of the war both sides scrambled to gather a flotilla converting existing riverboats for naval use. These ships wrere converted into powerful naval weapons despite a lack of resources trained manpower & suitable vessels. The creation of a river fleet was a miracle of ingenuity improvisation & logistics particularly for the South. This title describes their design development & operation throughout the American Civil War. ...

Midnight: a mist-haunted wood with a bad reputation. A sweet sixteen party & thirteen-year-old Nell is trying to keep her sister spoilt birthday-girl Gwen out of trouble. No chance. Trouble finds Gwen & drags her through the mist. Only Nell guesses whos behind the kidnap
- the boy she hoped was her friend the gorgeous but mysterious Evan River. Evan is no ordinary boy
- he has a secret which will lead Nell to question everything she has always learned from her grandmothers stories. Evan lives on the fringes of Nells world rarely glimpsed misunderstood & feared but a long-simmering showdown between the two worlds is looming.. .

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For the last twenty years Sir James Monmouth has been a gentleman adventurer journeying all over the globe in the footsteps of his hero the great pioneering traveller Conrad Vane. One rainy winter night Sir James returns to London. Orphaned at five it is now time to find out more about his family & origins & also to learn about the early years of Conrad Vane. But at every turn James is warned off his investigation into Conrad Vane. Do these warnings explain his flashes of intense fear & feelings of being watched? & what of the boy who has started haunting his every step & the mysterious mirror with its inexplicable reflections? Eventually Sir James quest leads him to the old lady of Kittiscar Hall & deep into a past that binds him to his hero in ways he never could have imagined. ...

One of Lyn Andrews first eight novels transferring from the original publisher to Headline; already steady sellers they will be targeted for a huge increase in sales. The Chatterton family is far too posh for the Liverpool slums where theyve ended up. Nancy Butterworth & Abbie Kerrigan lifelong residents of the place tried to befriend Dee Chatterton but her mother wants her to have nothing to do with such rough children. The Burgess family looks forward to the arrival of their young cousin Sean from Dublin & Nancy is not the first to lose her heart to the Irish charmer. In 1914 things are to change dramatically & the families are to find that money & social position mean nothing when the horrors of the First World War invade their lives & take away their sons. ...

Autumn 1797. With Napoleons forces sweeping through Europe a young English woman travels to Paris risking her life on a secret mission that may buy Britain vital time... Mary Finch is no stranger to adventure but even she hesitates before accepting her new assignment travelling as the wife of an American artist into the very heart of enemy territory. The plan is so secret she cant even tell Captain Holland with whom she is supposed to have an understanding. After a terrifying journey through revolutionary France she arrives in Paris only to discover that her American husband is not quite what he appears. With the French chasing a deadly new weapon & an old nemesis threatening to unmask her as a spy Mary soon finds herself in mortal danger... Thrilling & deeply satisfying The Mistaken Wife is a spirited & gripping historical mystery from the author of the acclaimed The Blackstone Key. ...

A boxed set of the landmark fantasy from Brandon Sanderson the man credited with breathing fresh life into Robert Jordan's WHEEL OF TIME. An epic fantasy set in a world where the Dark Lord has gained dominion over the world. A world of ash & pain. A world subjugated. But a world where magic can be drawn from metals. A world waiting for a new heroine a new hope. A word of mouth bestseller in the USA Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy have now become a massive hit in the UK introducing readers to the work of one of the genre's great talents. A master of world building sweeping plots believable characters & engrossing magic systems. ...

Billy is a street urchin pickpocket & petty thief. Mister Creecher is a monstrous giant of a man who terrifies all he meets. Their relationship begins as pure convenience. But a bond swiftly develops between these two misfits as their bloody journey takes them ever northwards on the trail of their target.. . Victor Frankenstein. Friendship trust & betrayal combine to form a dangerous liaison in this moving & frightening new book from Chris Priestley. ...

Anna was four years old when Fynn then only 16 himself found her wandering round London's Docklands one foggy night in the 1930s. Badly neglected & abandoned by her parents he took her home to be cared for by his own family. The impact of this extraordinary child on Fynn his friends & the people in their neighbourhood was to be immense. Nobody who met Anna could remain the same: this intelligent lively precocious chatterbox had an outlook on life which completely undercut adult pretensions & illusions. Anna's influence continues today. Anyone dipping into her thought-processes falls under the spell of her luminous innocence wisdom & intimate relationship with ' Mister God'. ...