Anthony G. Pappas

A Place Where Everybody Matters

Church Leadership & Ministry

“"Butterflies in your soul? You've finished seminary, got credentialed, and now you have accepted your first call to minister . . . in a small church! Well, butterflies (and worse!) are entirely appropriate because you are about to enter a whole new world! BUT in Jean Risley's A Place Where Everybody Matters you have an excellent guide to the fascinating new universe of small church ministry. Let Risley be your mentor-in-print . . . Risley's practical wisdom and love of the small church will become infused in your pastoring and you will be a better minister for it!”

Religious Education in the Small Membership Church

Discipleship & Christian Education

“An excellent resource. Provides a broad overview of the literature and theory and research on the small church. The many charts are particularly thorough and useful. Those who have wrestled for a long time with small church issues will find comfort and encouragement in the breadth of chapters.”

Under One Steeple

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Under One Steeple is a subtle book . . . Anderson beguiles with humor, real-life anecdotes, and look-over-my-shoulder stories of congregational life. A message of welcoming the stranger, incarnating loving and honest relationships, sharing one's possessions, relinquishing control, and seeing Christ in 'the least of these, my siblings'! The spiritual lessons identified in this volume may just be the key to faithful behavior in Western society in the twenty-first century!”