Special Services

Minister's Service Manual

The Minister's Service Manual is an essential tool for pastors of any denomination in preparing for worship services, weddings, funerals, benedictions, dedications, baptisms, and more. This handy volume now contains updated information throughout and the best of the Minister's Marriage Manual as well. With these procedures, forms, suggestions, poems, and outlines, ministers will be fully prepared to create an appropriate service no matter what the occasion.

The Pastor's Manual

Suggestions for performing the various tasks as a pastor. Includes vital information and examples for all types of services and ceremonies.

The Broadman Minister's Manual

An indispensable interdenominational tool for planning and conducting religious services. Order of worship, baptism, Lord's Supper, wedding, funeral, ordination, and much more.

A Contemporary Handbook for Weddings & Funerals and Other Occasions

Weddings and funerals, like few other occasions, offer pastors the opportunity to give direction and encouragement to individuals when their hearts are more open to God . . . and to those individuals attending these events who may otherwise never hear God's message. This handbook, a compilation of tested ideas and resources by pastors, provides just the tool pastors need—young pastors will appreciate the advice of experienced ministers to help them get started, and veteran pastors will benefit from fresh ideas that add meaning to services they've performed dozens of times. Includes difficult situations like the death of a child and second marriages.

The Pastor's Wedding Manual

A collection of creative wedding ceremonies and ideas to guide the pastor in making the wedding service a worshipful experience.

The Minister's Manual for Funerals

The plans for this book began several years ago as I personally sought quality resources for my work with grieving families. With such an abundance of homelectical materials in general, I was concerned that there seemed to be very little to offer guidance for the funeral setting. The goal of this book is to provide resource material for a setting that has so much potential for ministry. - From the Preface.

The Baker Wedding Handbook

<div>As a pastor, you are taking on many roles and responsibilities that you may or may not feel prepared to handle. It is helpful to have a series of handbooks that can help guide you through the special services that pop up in your pastoral life. This essential wedding handbook includes up-to-date information on:</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>- Ceremonies for fourteen traditions</div><div>- Suggestions for special services (vow renewal, blessing a civil union, marrying couples from previous relationships, and an ecumenical ceremony)</div><div>- Suggestions for prayers, Scripture readings, and music</div><div>- Resources for writing vows and conducting unity candle and unity sand ceremonies</div><div>- Reproducible planning charts</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>This comprehensive guide for conducting traditional and contemporary weddings is conveniently sized so it's easy to hold as you officiate weddings.</div>

Conduct Gospel Centered Funerals

Bring Gospel Hope in the Midst of Death<p>The phone rings: 'Pastor, can you do my mother's funeral?' Or, 'Please help us—our baby just died.' Death comes unexpectedly, giving you two to three days of time to prepare a sermon—in the midst of caring for a grieving family. This helpful book walks a pastor through the logistics of memorial services, burials, and working with funeral homes—using the four P's: Plan, Prepare, Preach, and Perform. It shows how to magnify Christ and the gospel in the midst of all the details, demands, and sorrow that surrounds the death of a loved one.<p>The Practical Shepherding series of books provides pastors and ministry leaders with advice and practical help to do the work of pastoral ministry in a local church. In Conduct Gospel-Centered Funerals, experienced pastors Brian Croft and Phil A. Newton offer readers a concise guide to conducting funerals that glorify God and offer a timely message of hope.