The links that follow provide resources for many aspects of church-related ministry.

Bible and Theology

Christian Classisc Ethereal Library: www.ccel.org

Dictionary of Theology: http://www.carm.org/dictionary.htm

Summary of Christian Doctrine: http://www.peacemakers.net/unity/lbsocd.htm

Blue Letter Bible: http://www.blueletterbible.org/

Textweek (lectionary, Scripture study, worship resources): http://www.textweek.com/

Precept Austin (Bible reference materials): http://preceptaustin.org/

General Reference

Google (search engine): http://www.google.com/webhp

Doodle (meeting scheduler): http://www.doodle.ch/main.html

Amazon (book orders): http://www.amazon.com/

Videos

 John Piper on the Supremacy of Christ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYGLl0gO1dk

Church Education Network

Welcome to the Church Education Network. This is a non-formal, social network for church-related education in general. It is also a vehicle for an outcomes approach to leadership education that is facilitated by coaches and peer learners, using internet-based social networking, with portfolios being used to provide evidences of learning. The leadership education network has four primary components: participants, coaches, facilitators, and library. Following is a description of the components and their functions. 

Participants:

Functions:

Develop portfolios that contain files providing evidence of competencies – unique to her or his  learning goals

Interact with coaches and peers for mutual support in achieving and documenting competencies

Related communities: Collections, Homogenous Peers, Selected Coaches (primary and secondary)

Administrative level: relates to assigned coach(es), homogenous peers, and facilitators 

Coaches:

Functions

Develop files of resources to assist participants in accomplishing and documenting competencies – resource files of individual coaches my be unique to each of their special interests

Interact with facilitator and other coaches as peers in the sharing of information resources and coaching processes

Related communities: Coaches, Collections, Assigned Participants

Administrative level: relates to assigned participants, other coaches, and facilitators 

Facilitators:

Functions

Coordinate network content and design

Provide orientation for new members (participants and coaches)o       Assist users as needed

Related communities: All

Administrative level: relates to all participants and coaches, reports to representative(s) of sponsoring group 

Library:

Functions

Provide files of resources to assist coaches and participants in accomplishing their coaching and learning goals – resources that have demonstrated their effectiveness in helping coaches and participants

Accumulated key contributions from facilitators, coaches, and participants,·        Related communities: All

Administrative level: relates to all participants and coaches, coordinated by facilitators with additions and modifications made by a consensus of the coaches 

Community Components

Each component has her or his (or its) own web page that contains parts that are common to the others. This common distribution of components and parts provides for opportunities to share and learn from one another in community while at the same time differentiating according to one’s individual needs, interests, and goals. Each person (facilitator, coach, participant) is given a similarly constructed web space that is linked to the others and to the “collections” section. Members are individually and collectively able to have “all things (related to learning) in common” (Acts 2:44). The components that are present on each space or page include: personal profile, bookmarks, files, community connections, message center, and blog.

• Your profile: basic contact information, brief biography, interests, goals, mission statement, employment, education
• Your network: names, web addresses, and descriptions of selected web sites
• Your files: folders, sub-folders, and files arranged according to general information, competencies, selected resources, and presentations
• Your network: links to the communities of which participants, coaches, and facilitators are members
• Your blog: a place for reflecting and sharing ideas and resources in a public journal-like format that is dated, topical, and searchable