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The Complete Guide for Senior Adult Ministry

Over one quarter of Americans are age fifty or older. This sizable grouphas unique needs and requires specialized ministry. In this resource,pastor to senior adults Dr. David Gallagher offers invaluable insights,practical ideas, and successful strategies for ministering effectively topeople over 50. In this book you'll find:

- THE BIG PICTURE AND NUTS AND BOLTS OF SENIOR ADULT MINISTRY. This bookoffers a fresh framework of ministry goals and vision, as well as thepractical insights to accomplish them. It includes steps for effectivesenior adult ministry, characteristics of senior adults, ways to involvesenior adults in ministry, and more!

- 150 SOLID GOLD MINISTRY TIPS, TIME-SAVERS, AND LIFE-SAVERS. Thispriceless help will be useful to both those new and experienced at senioradult ministry.

- POWERFUL OUTREACH ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS. These tested andproven-effective ideas help meet the social, emotional and spiritual needsof seniors!

- REPRODUCIBLE WORKSHEETS AND HANDOUTS. Found in most chapters, you'll findthese reproducible helps invaluable for sparking creativity for all areasof senior adult ministry.

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Senior Adult Ministry in the 21st Century: Step-by-Step
Chapter 1 Getting to Know Senior Adults
One thing that I found particularly interesting about the book Senior Adult Ministry in the 21st Century was the idea that today's seniors have more friends than ever before. Senior adults are becoming much more sociable these days. They are generally healthier and emphatically happier. In a way, they have followed our cultural and social trends. Case in point: seniors are described in this book as loving predictability (pg 16). I've heard it said that "McDonalds is the most popular hamburger restaurant in the world; not because people expect to get the best burger but because people know what there going to get". It's true. Whenever you enter into a McDonalds (with a few possible exceptions) you find the washrooms in the same place as in any other McDonalds, the registers in the same place, the same art on the walls and the same exact food. Seniors, like all of us love predictability. We love to know what's coming our way. The main thing I have taken from this chapter is that senior's ministry (like youth ministry) thrives on repetition and predictability.
Chapter 2 Getting Started in Senior Adult Ministry
Probably the most impacting thing that I took from this chapter was the idea of a holistic community. In earlier times, the churches were the social centers for most communities. The clergy were generally the most educated people in the area and so often represented the people and counseled them. The church also functioned as an activities center for many groups and whole families remained in the same church for their entire lives. Though today people have many opportunities that previous generations did not; though today people have more social centers and more choices in general, the Church can and should still function as a community center. Certainly the benefits of a senior adult ministry can help with this. Firstly a seniors group helps to reach the community. Second a seniors group could have the potential to affect the larger family unit and could help the church to reach whole families across generational lines (pg 37).As this chapter points out, it is wildly important that seniors be encouraged to help meet the needs of other seniors (pg 38).
Chapter 3 Involving Senior Adults in Ministry
The third chapter of this book as well has a great emphasis on the involvement of seniors in ministry. There is even a great list of ways that this can be done. In my mind, there are two points on the list that deserve extra attention. The first is a suggestion that seniors be encouraged to host local international students at their homes for dinners (pg 67). This is a great idea. It is community oriented, it has wonderful benefits for both the student and for older adults and it has even greater potential for evangelism. The second suggestion that struck me as being particularly good was the proposal to offer a first aid course (pg 68). I myself can testify to this. Just last week, I set up a class for Second Chance CPR and First Aid, and it was a wonderful experience for all ages. Yet for seniors in particular it was especially informative. Most seniors can benefit greatly from learning these kinds of life saving procedures and many have grandchildren to look after as well (grandchildren love to choke on pennies and dog food and all kinds of things).This type of class can help to make people feel more in control.


Chapter 4 Reaching Out to Senior Adults
I think the most impacting idea offered in this chapter is mentioned only in passing on page 90. It is given as one of many possible outreach opportunities for seniors. In it seniors are described as "muggers", a somewhat unfortunate title for seniors who "take a simple gift to our first-time visitors". I found this to be a great idea. Not only could the seniors get together as a craft group to make something or design something, but they could also help to keep track of new peoples names and numbers. The idea could also help the ministerial staff as the seniors keep track of new visitors. In addition, it is always nice to see a safe, older, friendly face when visiting a new church. For many people this would set them at ease and without sounding to blunt - I believe that few people would respond negatively to an elderly woman with a gift standing on their front porch the way they might to a younger person. I find this to be a very good idea, and great opportunity for community involvement and for evangelism.
Chapter 5 The Serious Side of Senior Adult Ministry
There is a story on page 124 about a senior who was unsatisfied with the care of one church who had moved on to another. In the story the pastor of the first church refers to the elderly man as a "crybaby". This story struck me perhaps more than anything else in this book. It did not strike me because the story is particularly well told; in fact it is not well told at all. It did not strike me because the picture of the elderly man is of a suffering man and the picture drawn of his pastor is of an insensitive brute. Instead I was drawn to this story because of something I learned long ago in my first ever psychology course. What I learned back then was this quote, "the things that drive us crazy about people, are the very things that are keeping them sane". The reality is that people employ all kinds of coping mechanisms and the more quirks we find in them, the more traumas they have most likely experienced. Whether the man in the story or whether the pastor in the story are actual people or whether this story describes a historical event is unimportant to me. What is important is the idea that the Church has been called to care especially for the outcasts of society. In a world of ever increasing selfishness, our seniors are quickly becoming a mission ground and a place for the Church to minister. God has given us a gift and we need to be taking advantage of that.

Equip your Church Today to Reach Tomorrow
Dr. Gallagher knows about what he writes about!Dr. Gallagher is a long-time Christian Education expert who has, in his later years of ministry, addressed the key need of Senior Adults.

Dr. Gallagher works in a church that reaches his target population in an effective way.Learning how to reach this target group "step by step" is exactly what this book teaches.

Demographic studies suggest that the "age wave" is something that will become a larger and larger aspect of local church ministry.Dr. Gallagher helps us catch that wave right now!

Clear and Consise
This is a great book. Clear and consise.It gives wonderful ideas about how to do what many other just talk about.

WELL WRITTEN AND PRACTICAL!
This is a very well written book by a pastor with a strong ministry to senior adults.

I especially like it because it is full of practical and helpful ideas.

Dr. Dave gives great insight into all areas of ministry.

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This digital document is an article from Comparative Drama, published by Comparative Drama on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 308 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Kathleen Gallagher and David Booth, eds. How Theatre Educates: Convergences and Counterpoints.
Publication: Comparative Drama (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Comparative Drama
Volume: 37Issue: 2Page: 250(2)

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Awesome
A book that has real pictures and humor makes learning fun. This has been a valuable assest in my library. ... Read more

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An artbook packed with David Gallagher's concept sketches of the many denizens of the Warhammer Online RPG, demonstrating how they were used in the realization of the game.Warhammer Online is a new massively multiplayer online game set against the backdrop of Games Workshop's grim and gritty Warhammer fantasy world. Within the game, players take on the roles of desperate outlaws and mercenary adventurers, struggling to survive in a perilous world and against the ever-present corruption of Chaos. Alongside thousands of other players, immerse yourself in a massive world and explore, fight, trade and die, as you drag yourself from the gutter and build your reputation as a deadly warrior, dark magician or cunning and treacherous rogue. ... Read more

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Failed not by its vision but by its visage.
Dark, mature, gritty, desperate, sinister, Machiavellian, detailed. All of these words do not describe Blood on the Reik. They do however apply to the world that we were told Blood on the Reik would reveal to us: the world of Warhammer Fantasy. Many of us who are aware of this setting with its rabid fans spread throughoutEurope, its dozens of well written novels, its own miniature based fantastically popular war game, and its unique but recognizable world have long searched for a way to introduce our friends to the setting. We have searched for a way to grant them, with but a glance, the same fascination that we have.

Blood on the Reik promised to give us this. It is surely cleverly conceived. It was pitched as a work that will give us the sweeping visuals that have so inspired fans of the Warhammer world, focused on the largest nation of humanity, the glorious Empire. Blood on the Reik is presented not as a work of fiction but as work that might be found within the world of Warhammer. Reik's exterior appears as if it was a folio produced in the halls of Altdorf, capital city of the Empire.Every facet of its exterior oozes the setting. From the exterior inscriptions, comments from the "author" and its claim of having "12 Color Plates and 260 Representations this work is, one the surface, an immersive experience.

Presented as a work by Altdorf resident Tobias Helmgart, an author and traveler who compiled this book during his crossings and experiences throughout the Old World, Blood on the Reik fails to live up to its exterior. This is principally due to the artwork of John Blanche.The aforementioned color "plates" (an anachronistic term for full-color photo) are all his work and are truly vile to behold. The sketches are done, alternatively, by Blanche and long-time Games-Workshop artist David Gallagher. Where we have Gallagher (who to be fair comprises most of them) we have success, where we find Blanche's drawings we find little more than the etchings you might expect on a cave man's wall.

The text, what little there is does pass muster and should be applauded save for the fact that there isn't enough of it.

It's a shame that for many months this was the sole art-book for the Warhammer Fantasy world. Thankfully the recently released Darkness Rising: A Complete History of the Storm of Chaos learned from the mistakes of Blood on the Reik. It has the flavor, the immersive setting, detail, and beautiful artwork. Unless you are a true collector buy it and not this.,

Art book for a cancelled game
I'm not sure about the quality of the art book, but the online game was cancelled. The link provided above goes to a page providing that information. The art book, then, is an interesting curio, an "almost was" snapshot of a game killed due to publisher disinterest. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on June 1, 1999. The length of the article is 827 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Aquinas on the Twofold Human Good: Reason and Human Happiness in Aquinas's Moral Science.
Author: David M. Gallagher
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1999
Publisher: Philosophy Education Society, Inc.
Volume: 52Issue: 4Page: 933

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on March 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1589 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Werke in acht Banden, vols. 3-5.
Author: David M. Gallagher
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1998
Publisher: Philosophy Education Society, Inc.
Volume: v51Issue: n3Page: p710(4)

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Kyrgyzstan is a land of glaring contrasts.Its rich history tells both of nomads on the ancient Silk Road and laborers in the Soviet Union.This fictional account written by a former Kyrgyzstan Peace Corps volunteer tells of the history and traditions of this exotic land, and how they affect the forbidden love of two Kyrgyz people. ... Read more

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Oustanding!!
This is a griping story from a part of the world that thus far has been overlooked.Not only is the story great but you also get a chance to learn about this fascinating part of the world. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on June 1, 1996. The length of the article is 740 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: An Intellectual History of Liberalism.
Author: David M. Gallagher
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1996
Publisher: Philosophy Education Society, Inc.
Volume: v49Issue: n4Page: p933(2)

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on June 1, 1995. The length of the article is 814 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Miscellanea Mediaevalia, vol. 22, Scientia und Ars im Hoch-und Spatmittelalter. (book reviews)
Author: David M. Gallagher
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1995
Publisher: Philosophy Education Society, Inc.
Volume: v48Issue: n4Page: p891(2)

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on December 6, 2002. The length of the article is 1176 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Tienda de musica en su movil: existen moviles que identifican cualquier melodia entre 1,6 millones de canciones y se la venden. .(comunicacion)
Author: David F. Gallagher
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 6, 2002
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 50(2)

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