Best Practices Family of Newsletters and Podcasts

Serving as a pastor requires a constant upgrading of skills and knowledge because our environment is continuously changing. 

Old practices sometimes lose their effectiveness and relevancy. Developing effective practices takes creativity, experimentation, research, resulting in lots of failed attempts and a few successes. 

The task would be impossible if each of us were alone. Fortunately, as all pastors hone their pastoral arts, best practices continually emerge. 

NAD Ministerial Association seeks to aggregate the continuing flow of pastoral knowledge and excellence in the Best Practices family of newsletters and podcasts. 

Subscribe now to the newsletters and podcasts of your choice and begin to refresh your best practices for Ministry.

If you are a practitioner who has new insights on ministry, please contact the editor of the newsletters or host of the podcasts, and share your best practice of ministry to your colleagues. 

Best Practices Email Newsletters

Best Practices for Adventist Ministry is an email resource designed to encourage your calling as a pastor. The stories from your colleagues, ideas that work, quotes, recommended reading, featured media, news, ideas, relevant editorials and invitations to events are delivered to your email box on the second and fourth week of each month. As managing editor, Pastor Heather Crews invites you to both engage with the newsletter and write for it. Subscribe now. Archives. 

Best Practices for Evangelism is published on the third week of every month. This email newsletter is designed for Pastors, Laity, Conference and Union Evangelism Directors and Administrators who are passionate about sharing the good news of Jesus Christ to their surrounding community. As editor, Jose Cortes Jr. challenges the recipients to Reach, Retain, and Reclaim North America with a lifestyle and a message of Compassion, Hope, and Wholeness. Subscribe now.  

 Best Practices for Adventist Worship is published several times a year and is designed for pastors, worship leaders, musicians, techies, and anyone who is involved with the congregational worship experience. This monthly email newsletter, edited by Nicholas Zork, gives practical tips, resources, events, and connections for the richly diverse Adventist church community. Subscribe now.

Best Practices for Ministerial Directors is a quarterly newsletter designed to serve the Ministerial Directors in the North American Division. The newsletter provides resources to Ministerial Directors as they seek to support, affirm the clergy in their territory. As editor, Ivan Williams, the NAD Ministerial Director, invites Ministerial Directors to engage in this newsletter dialog. Subscribe now.

Fresh Strength for Ministerial Spouses is an opportunity for you to connect with other NAD spouses. This newsletter is edited by NAD Spouses coordinator, Desiree Bryant. Subscribe now. 

Best Practices Podcasts

Best Practices Podcast: Adventist Ministry--Ministry in a confined bubble of people sometimes sounds like an eco-chamber; with the same voices reverberating. Sometimes we just need trusted mentors outside our bubble to whisper fresh wisdom. That’s what Best Practices Ministry podcast is all about. 

Each podcast drills down into a core quality, such as character, evangelism, leadership, worship, relationship, management, or scholarship. We’ve mined hundreds of outstanding ministry presentations and found the nuggets for you, all in a half hour episode.   

Whether you’re driving to your next appointment or pumping your heart in a workout, let the wisdom of these mentors penetrate your bubble. Each podcast will encourage you to keep going and keep growing. COMING SOON

Best Practices Podcast: Multiply COMING SOON

Best Practices Vodcast: Multiply COMING SOON

Best Practices Podcast: Leadership Effect--In a world of rapid change and ministry shifts, highlighting leadership effectiveness is more critical than ever before. The “Leadership Effect” podcast focuses on helping ministry leaders be as effective as possible in their leadership roles. 

Through strategic conversations, its goal is to help listeners discover important teachable lessons about leadership effectiveness from other lifelong learners and professional practitioners. 

Each podcast will encourage you to keep going and keep growing. Don’t miss it! COMING SOON