Resources

Mentioned by Rev. Marc Jagt in the session "Evangelism and the Local Church" as an encouragement to begin with the people who live nearby, for example by inviting neighbours over for a meal.

Mentioned by Keith Verburg in the session "Becoming a Church that Cares Well for the Abused" as the source of a diagram contrasting graceful and graceless relationships, with the love of the Father, the grace of the Son and the empowering of the Holy Spirit as the model for the former.

The articles on the offices, the assemblies and discipline. Office bearers promise to abide by it, and ought therefore to know it. The federation website is linked here; the text itself is printed in the Book of Praise.

The forms read at every ordination set out the duties of each office in a few pages. They repay rereading long after the day they were first heard.

The seminary's library offers subject guides and web resources, and its faculty regularly publish material of use to office bearers.

The home of the curriculum "Becoming a Church that Cares Well for the Abused", which equips churches and their leaders to respond well to a report of abuse. Rachael Denhollander is among its contributors. Keith Verburg drew on it as the main source for his session of the same name.