Educating Congregations <subTitle>The Future of Christian Education</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Foster, Charles R.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">1937-</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">0:5</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Abingdon Press</publisher> <dateIssued>1994</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>160tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback, Illustration</extent> <extent>22 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>A leading Christian educator offers a practical guide for revisioning a church's educational program. After identifying the weaknesses in current education programs, Charles Foster offers an alternative vision that is more cooperative, more attentive to the whole of the congregation's life, and that helps people critically correlate the Bible and Christian tradition to their own experience.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Charles R. Foster</note> <subject> <topic>Christian Education</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Church work</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">268</classification> <classification authority="ddc">F754-C48</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780687002450</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15712/16.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15712/16.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071519.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>