Next Steps in Community Ministry: Hands-On Leadership (Book)
Carl S. Dudley, Author.  Herndon, VA: Alban Institute, 1998.

This book is intended to empower congregations, especially the clergy and lay leaders, to exercise their faith in developing community ministries. A follow-up to Dudley’s Basic Steps In Community Ministry, it charts the progress of 32 church-based community ministries after five years. It identifies the motivation, organization, and resources most commonly found in effective community ministry. It gives voice to the satisfactions volunteers find in community ministry and the unique roles clergy play. The book advocates the need to make constructive use of community tensions and enumerates the nuances between advocacy and service ministries.

Dudly talks straightforwardly about ways to raise money, the serious underestimation of the willingness of laity to engage in outreach ministry by both denominational leaders and clergy, and the forms, styles, sources, risks, and benefits of forming partnerships to do community ministry.

This book gives many examples of the ways in which community outreach enlivens congregational ministries and will be useful to every congregation, especially those that are considering new community ministries.

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