Offers clergy and worship planners the opportunity to utilize the Bible in new and engaging ways. An excellent sourcebook for African American congregations as well as planners looking for multicultural worship resources.

Including lectionary-based calls to worship, prayers of confession, and blessings, Trumpet in Zion addresses God in the voice, verbiage, and expression of African Americans in worship.

Offers clergy and worship planners the opportunity to utilize the Bible in new and engaging ways. An excellent sourcebook for African American congregations as well as planners looking for multicultural worship resources.

A compilation of lessons about bodacious women in scripture. The first edition includes Mary Magdalene, Mary, mother of Jesus, Queen Esther, and the Woman at the Well. This new edition features five additional women: Queen Vashti, Cozbi, Queen Jezebel, Tabitha, and Lydia.

""But what can I do this day to these my children] or to their children whom they have borne?"" --Genesis 31:43 ""There is an adjustment that must occur internally when you have felt that parenting days were finished. There is an emotional shifting that must take place when cooking, grocery shopping, and meal planning have stopped being a primary consideration. There is a major spiritual engagement that takes place when a child is put into your care that you did not plan for and birth. Prayer is essential "" --from Pilgrim Prayers for Grandmothers Raising Children Author Linda H. Hollies has...