Adult Library: Ministry & Eldership

Britain YM Committee on Eldership & Oversight, Quality and Depth of Worship and Ministry,
Quaker Books, Britain YM, London UK
ISBN#0-85245-329-9, 2001.
This booklet is a distillation of experience and reflection collected from meetings and offered back in the form of queries, designed to be taken a few at a time. 44 pp.

Gray, Gladys, Editor, Ministering to Our Meetings,
PYM RE Committee, Philadelphia, PA,
1986
Eight Lessons on how we can more effectively minister to Friends' needs through our Meeting structure.

Greene,J., Walton,M., Fostering Vital Friends Meetings: A Handbook for Working with Quaker Meetings,
Friends General Conference, Philadelphia, PA,
ISBN#1-888305-07-X, 1999
Assembles the collected wisdom of many years of fieldwork among umprogrammed Meetings. Provides carefully seasoned guidelines, tools and exercises that any Meeting can use to strengthen its Quaker Practice.

Heron, Alistair, Gifts and Ministries: A Discussion Paper on Eldership,
Quaker Home Service, London,
ISBN#0-85245-215-2, 1987
Looks at a brief history of Elders in London YM, then at the current needs and how these can be met. The challenge of freedom, authority and leadershiip is also addressed.
MEETING FOR LEARNING

Maurer, John, Public Ministry Among Friends: Some private thoughts Sunderland P. Gardner Lecture,
Argenta Friends Press, Argenta, BC
2000.
An explanation of the pastoral ministry in Quakerism distinguishing between types of ministry and between programmed and unprogrammed worship in terms of the several kinds of ministries

Priestman, Rosalind, Eldership: Nurturing Our Spiritual Resources,
Quaker Home Service, London,
1994
Can be used by everyone in the Meeting, not just those currently serving as elders.

A Handbook for Overseers,
Philadelphia YM, Philadelphia, PA,
1994
Describes care of members, functions shared with other committes, recordskeeping, etc.