The Parish Papers
NEW RESOURCE AVAILABLE FOR PASTORS AND LOCAL CHURCHES
The Northwest Texas Conference has entered into a subscription service for the "The Parish Paper," a leadership newsletter full of ideas and strategies for helping the local church be more effective in making disciples for the transformation of the world. The paragraph below explains how you can share these papers in your local church and gain great benefit from this new resource that you now have available.
"A judicatory or institutional subscriber receives copyright permission to share 12 consecutive issues of this monthly publication with your clergy, staff, and congregations in any or all of the following ways: E-mail, U.S. Mail, reprint in its judicatory newspaper/newsletter, distribute at judicatory meetings and training events, and post on your judicatory or institution's Website.
(The above permissions include both faculty and students of subscribing seminaries.) We E-mail you The Parish Paper issues approximately two months in advance. Each congregation within your judicatory or organization's constituency--to which you distribute The Parish Paper-- has permission to photocopy or electronically distribute for local use as many copies as it needs."
Your organization subscribes to The Parish Paper, and you receive the monthly issues as an E-mail PDF attachment. Distribution instructions: On your organization’s stationary (or under its electronic name), when you distribute the issues to your organization’s staff and congregations via (a) hard copy, or (b) E-mail attachment, or (c) your organization’s Web site, please print the following notice:
[your organization’s name] ___________________’s purchase of a subscription to The Parish Paper INCLUDES
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Permission to provide copies to our staff and to the congregations within our jurisdiction in any of the following ways: E-mail, Postal, newspaper, newsletter, meetings, training events, and our Web site.
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Permission for each congregation within our jurisdiction to (a) photocopy or electronically distribute for local use as many copies as it needs, (b) post them on its Web site, and (c) quote sentences and paragraphs.
Congregations within our ___________ [your organization’s name] jurisdiction to which we distribute The Parish Paper do NOT have permission (a) to delete the copyright ownership notice, (b) to re-write, paraphrase, delete, or change the wording of sentences and paragraphs, or (c) to give ANY THIRD PARTY—other than our staff and constituents—permission to photocopy or reprint (in any quantity, no matter how small, whether for free distribution or for sale).
If your congregation uses a U.S. Post Office Nonprofit Mailing Permit to distribute photocopies with its newsletter or other mailings, most local Post Offices require that every item carry your congregation’s name and address. Above The Parish Paper masthead, type your congregation’s name, address, and “Photocopied by Permission.”
Here are latest issues of The Parish Paper. Click on the title to open and dowload the particular issue in PDF format.
Parish Paper February 2012 - How to Manage Change Resistance Parish Papers January 2012 - How to Perfect Your Leadership Triangle Parish Papers December 2011 - How Do We Successfully Launch a New Project Parish Papers November 2011 - Should We Unleash the Power of Congregational Planning Parish Papers October 2011--Why Do Smart Churches Make Dumb Decisions Parish Papers September 2011- - Why Do People Connect with Christ and a Congregation Parish Papers August 2011--How to Prevent Bad Behavior During Times of Change Parish Papers July 2011--How to Select Quality Staff Parish Papers June 2011--What is the Pastors Role in Church Finance Parish Papers May 2011--When Does Success Lead to Failure Parish Papers April 2011--Incoming Pastors-Building Smoother Transition Bridges Parish Paper March 2011--Does a Congregations Location Influence Its Effectiveness Parish Paper February 2011 - -Accomplishing Worthy Goals--Being Smart Is not Enough Parish January 2011 - What Is Your Unconscious Intent
