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PLEASE NOTE: This page is is meant to help you get started with a search on GRACE, but there are many more resources than what may be found using this list. If you cannot find what you are looking for, please come to or contact the Reference Desk.

An easy way to get started:

• browse the list of Alban Institute publications
  -- The books in this series contains practical information on topics including church administration, church law, lay ministry, leadership, faith and money, membership, planning and visioning, sexual trauma, social action, stewardship, stress management, and youth ministry.
• The Grove Booklet on Ministry and Worship and The Grove Pastoral Series are similar series but with an Anglican Perspective.
• The Risk Book Series is a series from the World Council of Churches.

For additional books:

• Church Management
• see also related topics
• see also Church Personnel Management



• Church Finance
• see also related topics



• Church Gatherings and Meetings
  • see also related topics
  
  
  
• Christian Education
• see also related topics
• see also Religious Education of Children



• Clergy
• see also related topics



• Pastoral Counseling
• handbooks, dictionaries of pastoral care, Encyclopedia of Mental Health, grief and bereavement counseling, marriage counseling, Abstracts of Research in Pastoral Care and Counseling (1972-98)



• Pastoral Theology, Practical Theology
• see also related topics



• Worship Programs and Public Worship
• see also related topics, including Worship (religious education)=Teaching worship
• Common Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary (1992), Lectionary for Mass
• Liturgies, Liturgy, Liturgics, and related topics
• see also rites and ceremonies and related topics
• church vestments and church decoration and ornament

Some journal titles:

• The Clergy Journal (previously Church Management)
• Congregations: the Alban Journal
• Your Church

See also Ministry to Specific Groups