1. www.lifeway.com/adults 1.800.458.2772 LifeWay Christian Stores Leadership and Adult IECS Update July 2009 Denver

2. Adult Ministry Strategy

3. Core Ministry Solutions Sunday School Small Groups Discipleship Devotionals Magazines

4. Redesign Making the learner guide relevant and essential for Parents in Bible study. Emphasize a visual appeal combined with transformational content. Offer features that will help parents interact with their children. Provide in-depth Bible study appropriate for today’s busy parents.

5. Ongoing Redesign Work Life Values (1 of 3 Prototypes) Following LifeTruths Redesign methodology

6. Just getting started...

8. It all started with an elevator conversation...

10. Small Groups by LifeWay Serendipity by LifeWay Small Group Life Other New and Existing Small Group Resources Ongoing workFY09 Focus Work Current & Future work

11. M arriage & F amily Ministry Strategy May 6, 2009

12. What is Family Ministry? Family Ministry is the church at work to establish, encourage, & equip spiritually healthy families. Churches are struggling to define a cohesive, effective Family Ministry strategy.

13. How Does LifeWay Help? Develop Solutions from Biblical foundations –Gen 2:18-25 –Deut 6:4-9 & 2 Tim 1:5 –Joshua 24:15 –Gen 12:1-3 What are the indicators of a Spiritually Healthy Family? How does a church support them?

14. Indicator 1: Strong Marriages Family…what a great idea!

15. * Extraordinary Marriage Rodney and Selma Wilson * The Five Love Languages Gary Chapman * The 5 Sex Needs of Men & Women Gary & Barb Rosberg * The Love Dare Bible Study Michael Catt & Stephen & Alex Kendrick * Experiencing God as a Couple Henry & Marilyn Blackaby * Men Are Like Waffles, Women Are Life Spaghetti Bill and Pam Farrell * The Complete Resource Kit for Marriage Mentoring Les & Leslie Parrot t Provide DVD-based Enrichment Studies

16. Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott Marriage Mentoring Ron L. Deal Stepfamilies Distributing HomeLife extends the church’s marriage ministry into homes 24/7.

17. Indicator 2: Equipped Parents

18. Indicator 3: Missional Families

19. Indicator 4: Personal Daily Devotion

20. The Love Dare Bible Study Strong start FALL emphasis “Point of Sale” booklet is already popular Church “event” strategy – “event in a box”

21. Growing Disciples Series Basic Discipleship series Began with The Call to Follow Christ 6 additional titles based on the Disciple’s Cross from MasterLife Series will be complete by June-- Live in the Word

22. The Family God Uses Promotes the Family Ministry message of “Missional Family” Available July ‘09

23. Fresh Encounter Revised More emphasis on personal revival. Familiar product grouping (Leader kit w/ DVD, Learner guide) Release: Oct ‘09

24. New and Future Releases

25. Toward the Future How-to Sunday School Manual – Available Now More to Life: Discovery – December 2009 More to Life: Training – March 2010 Boomer Ministry Handbook – December 2009 Simple Life (Rainers) – January 2010 Trading Places (Parrotts) – January 2010 Transformational Church (Rainer, Stetzer) -- 2010 Other potential future resources: Erwin McManus, Max Lucado, Joe Gibbs, others

26. Adult Ministry Strategy