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You are a music director. Maybe you are paid a few days a week; probably you are doing this for the love. Either way, it's a huge job. And it's an important job one which requires you to have your head around both the contentious theology of worship music, and the musical and relational challenges of building a team of creative people.This book is about helping you sharpen your theology, define your role and vision, and build your team at the same time as dealing with the day to day reality of music ministry wrangling with flakey guitarists, practising hostage negotiation with the sound guys, and responding to 40 page complaint emails with grace.Lending their gifts to the cause are:Mark Peterson, the music minister at Holy Trinity Adelaide, and the writer of some incredible songs (See Him Coming, Hallelujah to the King of Kings, Highest Place) which are blessing congregations all over the world. (www.markpeterson.com.au)Greg Cooper, who works in music ministry as a producer, songwriter, and trainer with EMU Music, and as a researcher with Effective Ministry. Until recently he served as Music Director at Christ Church St Ives in Sydney. Since 2005 he has written songs, recorded and toured with worship band Garage Hymnal, and has also had a number of well received solo releases. (gregcoopermusic.com)Steve Crain, a veteran music director. He has been ministering at St Barnabas Broadway since shortly after the council of Nicea, and in that role has trained and discipled whole generations of musicians to steward their musical gifts. When not working at Barneys he freelances as a professional guitarist (listen at stevecrainmusic.com) and is available for church music training seminars.Andrew Judd, who in 2004 was asked to put together the Annual Conference Band for the Sydney University Evangelical Union which became Garage Hymnal. Andrew is also an Anglican Minister.

Is there any hope of salvation for people living with a dementia diagnosis? How can we know if someone has come to faith? How can a person come to know God if he or she can no longer recognise loved ones?In this short practical and pastoral book, Mark Wormell brings theology together with the experience of carers to suggest a new way of thinking about ministry to people with a dementia diagnosis. Carers, pastoral ministers, friends and family members of those with a dementia diagnosis will find this an encouraging and thought-provoking introduction to the questions of what it means to be a person, what it means to come to ';know' Christ, and how we can help those whose memories are fading to meet the God who will not forget them.Rev Mark Wormell is an associate minister at St Barnabas' Anglican Church Broadway, Sydney and teaches Ministry with Seniors at Mary Andrews College. After working as a lawyer in an Australian based, international law firm from 1982-2009, he completed a Bachelor of Divinity at Moore Theological College in Sydney. He lives in Pyrmont with his wife Kah Lin and has an adult daughter.

The Bible is universally recognised as the handbook of our faith and the New Testament as the written record of God's revelation in Christ. We know it, love it, trust it--and yet how did it come to be?This thought-provoking book examines the origins of the New Testament: the test of canonicity in the early days of the church, the process by which the canon was formed, and the close relationship between the content of the gospel and the concept of an apostle. Faith's Framework shows how, rather than being a dead part of church history, the question of the canon is a live question for Christians today, especially as they re-examine their own faith in the light of the original New Testament writings.