Growing Young Leaders offers practical guidance for all those mentoring 13- to 18-year-olds in a faith context, with a view to nurturing them towards leadership roles.

Linked to CPAS’s course Growing Leaders – Youth Edition, it also works as a stand-alone resource.

It defines mentoring, analyses the necessary skills and attributes of a mentor today, encourages good practice, considers the safeguards needed to meet child protection guidelines and, above all, considers how to help young people identify their gifts and grow as Christian disciples.

'I hope and pray that this book will help release the potential of our young people so that they become even greater disciples of Jesus Christ.' - Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York

New edition of the BRF bestseller with over 20,000 copies sold

Seven out of ten Christian leaders feel overworked, four in ten suffer financial pressures, only two in ten have had management training and 1,500 give up their job over a ten-year period. At the same time, as financial restrictions affect the availability of full-time ministers, more people are needed for leadership roles in local congregations, for every area of church work.

This book faces the challenge of raising up new leaders and helping existing leaders to mature, using the model for growing leaders at the heart of the Arrow Leadership Programme, a ministry of the Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS). It comprehensively surveys leadership skills and styles, discerning our personal calling, avoiding the 'red zone' of stress, developing character, and living as part of the community of God's people.

The book contains twelve chapters, in six sections, plus a resources section:

Part 1: Leadership today

Part 2: Growing leaders know they're chosen

Part 3: Growing leaders discern God's call

Part 4: Growing leaders develop Christ-like character

Part 5: Growing leaders cultivate competence

Part 6: Growing leaders lead in community.

Understanding Christian Leadership offers an examination of a distinctly Christian understanding of leadership offering a critical appraisal of insights from secular theories of leadership, exploring biblical and other theological insights into the nature and practice of leadership.

Whilst arguing for a form of leadership which is widely dispersed and collaborative, the book seeks to explain the distinctive role of leaders within such a leadership economy. It also seeks to establish a proper relationship between sacred and secular leadership thinking, tackling some of the common philosophical and theological reservations to do with leadership discourse, whilst offering a critical framework for discerning the suitability for the Church of different sources of leadership thinking.

Designed as core reading for leadership modules currently taught by the author across a large number of training contexts in the UK, this book is an indispensable text for those taking undergraduate or postgraduate-level qualifications in Christian leadership as well as those in other less formal leadership training contexts.

Foreword by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury

Multi-parish benefices are the pattern of the future. Pam Macnaughton addresses their unique needs in this guide, blending creativity with a theologically and pastorally informed approach.

She provides practical solutions and fresh ideas, based on tried and tested methods, for local churches struggling with declining attendance and complex contexts. She aims to equip churches to:

· Discern their vocation and play their part in God’s mission;

· Work well together across the benefice and within individual churches;

· Develop suitable leadership structures;

· Navigate culture change with creativity, wisdom and care;

· Grow in confidence and be energised by faith.

This book accompanies the Church Pastoral Aid Society’s established THRIVE programme which supports and trains clergy and congregations in multi-parish benefices.

Leaders know how easy it is in the midst of opportunities, demands and expectations to focus on the activity of leadership and not to spend much time on reflecting on who we are, what we are doing and how to grow as a leader.

Taking stock is a crucial step in establishing where we are and what we need to give our attention, so that we are not simply swayed by the clamouring demands around us. As we take stock, our leadership is strengthened, helping us to be effective and to be revitalized, whatever our leadership context. In Lead On, James Lawrence takes leaders on a on a journey of reflection, taking stock of their leadership and seeking ways to move forward and grow. Through thirty reflections, grouped by themes and accompanied by short articles, leaders are given a structured process to work through, considering both the inner and outer life.

Each reflection is accompanied by questions to explore and suggested resources to follow up, with a process of prayer and review at the end of each section. Drawing on a wealth of experience and resources from CPAS, this is an approachable yet comprehensive resource for Christian leaders in any sphere.