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Leadership

Faithwalking
A transformational journey where leaders hear Godfs call to the future and make choices to co-create that future with God. The faithwalking experience creates an environment where rigorous truth telling allows participants to choose the future for which God designed them and to partner with God and a small group of family and friends in co-creating that future.

Christianity.net
Access to back issues of Christianity Today, Books & Culture, Campus Life, Chistian Parenting Computing Today, Leadership and many more magazines. Also articles of interest, chat rooms or community groups, and online purchasing.

Easum, Bandy & Associates
The links alone are worth the visit. But Bill Easum, Tom Bandy and a list of other church consultants want to equip and train innovative church leaders for ministry in the 21st century and provide resources, technical support and opportunities for networking.

Emergent Villagers
Emergent describes itself as "a generative friendship among missional Christian leaders." Birthed out of those gathering for Leadership Network forums, this "village" now offers gatherings, discussions, resource lists and more.

Fast Company
The parables prove God teaches us through everyday life. Though this magazine is for the business world its content has much to say about vision, organizations, etc.

Leadership Network
Leadership Network fosters church innovation and growth through strategies, programs, tools and resources consistent with our far-reaching mission: to identify, connect and help high-capacity Christian leaders multiply their impact.

Ascending Leaders
Ascending Leaders is a multi-congregational/denominational ministry whose purpose is to grow stronger leaders in Christ's Kingdom.

One on One Leadership
One by One Leadership is a faith-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to engage people in urban leadership that results in the economic, educational and spiritual transformation of our community.

Research

The Houston Area Survey
Welcome to the web site of the Houston Area Survey (HAS), which has now completed 27 years of systematic survey research, conducted in the early spring of every year since 1982.

Houston Profile Project
Mission Houston research of Houston CSA's (Community Service Areas)

Megachurches Today 2005 (Hartford Seminary Institute for Religion Research)
At latest count, there are 1,210 Protestant churches in the United States with weekly attendance over 2,000, nearly double the number that existed 5 years ago. This is but one of many significant findings in the Megachurches Today 2005 survey conducted by Hartford Seminaryfs Hartford Institute for Religion Research and Leadership Network.

U.S. Religious Landscape Survey (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life)
An extensive new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious affiliation of the American public and explores the shifts taking place in the U.S. religious landscape.

American Piety in the 21st Century (Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
It is the most extensive and sensitive study of religion ever conducted, linking up with the pioneering surveys conducted by Rodney Stark and Charles Y. Glock in the 1960s. With the Baylor Religion Survey, we can dig deeper into American religious attitudes, behaviors and beliefs than previously possible.

Hispanic Realities in North America
Presentation by Dr. Daniel R. Sanchez introducing 10 realities about the Hispanic Community in US.

American FactFinder
A new data access and dissemination system that provides useful facts and information about your community, your economy, and your society. The system will find and retrieve the information you need from some of the Census Bureau's largest data sets.

Barna Research Group
George Barna is the founder of a Christian-based reasearch organization that provides statistical research, articles, and trend projections regarding faith, beliefs, and U.S. Culture.

Current Thoughts and Trends
The online version of a familiar magazine has expanded both its depth and the diversity of the over 100 magazines and websites it summarizes each month. In addition to each issue's special feature section and four familiar sections—Leadership, Church & Society, Spirituality, Nation & Nations—CTT now includes new rotating sections on Relationships, Culture, Arts & Media, Science & Technology, Education, and Business, and a new standing feature, MediaMinutes, that summarizes what's happening in Christian and secular music, television, movies, videos, games, etc. All this in addition to longtime subscriber favorites such as Facts, Quotes, TrendScope, Book in Brief, BookBits, and WebWatch.

Keirsey Temperament Sorter
Mobilization doesn't happen to the masses. It happens one person at a time. Here's an online assessment tool for helping to determine one's personality type.

Learning Styles
Knowledge that leads to perspective that leads to conviction which leads to skill development and ultimately to becoming part of who you are. That's learning. Here's a source for assessment tools and more info on learning.

Percept
Link2Lead.com is a web site providing free demographic for local church pastors and lay leaders.

Prayer Walking
STEP INTO PRAYERWALKING by Whitney Hopler - Prayerwalking is a great way to usher God's power into places in need and is one of the most effective tools you can use to reach lost people around you. - Crosswalk.com

The Small Group Network
This one comes highly recommended but to get the most out of it you have to become a member. Information is provided for teens, men, and women.