Reaching Single Adults: An Essential Guide for Ministry

by Dennis Franck

Book Overview

Although 44 percent of all adults are unmarried, most churches are focused on marriage and families--and so miss many opportunities to reach out as well as to benefit from all that singles can offer to the church.Here at last is an up-to-date, comprehensive handbook to single adult ministry. Based on his over twenty-five years of experience, Dennis Franck offers church leaders guidance on all aspects of this often-overlooked ministry, including: -understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080109190X
• ISBN13: 9780801091902
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Baker Books
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Guide for Getting Started

I read this book as I was interviewing to take the position that I now have as a full time singles minister. It is an intimidating task to build a ministry from the ground up, but Dennis Franck's wisdom and experience made it much less so. Franck outlines the different life situations that are represented by people in a singles ministry, some useful methods in meeting the spiritual needs of those people, and some mistakes to avoid. If I were going to find any weakness in the book it would be that it is not as focused as I wish it were on the Scriptural truths behind the methods. It also encourages singles leaders to teach topically, whereas my personal teaching philosophy is more on the biblical/expository end of the spectrum. Given those issues, this is still a great book. I got to spend some time with the author at a conference not long ago, and I could tell that what he wrote flowed out of his genuine heart for singles and not out of a desire just to write a book. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who, like me, is getting started in singles ministry and looking for wisdom to make it effective.