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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.     When you (a) distribute copies to your organization’s staff, constituents, and congregations, or (b) post issues on your organization’s Website, please include the following notice:   Our organization’s purchase of photocopy rights for The Parish Paper INCLUDES
1. Permission to provide copies to our staff and the congregations within our constituencyin any of the following ways: E-mail  , U.S. Mail, newspaper, newsletter, meetings, training events, and our Website

2. Permission for each congregation within our constituency to (a) photocopy or electronically distribute for local use as many copies as it needs, (b) post them on its Website, and (c) quote sentences and paragraphs.  Your congregation does NOT have permission (a) to delete the copyright notice on page 2; (b) to re-write, paraphrase, or change the wording of sentences and paragraphs; or (c) to give ANY THIRD PARTY—other than your 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.
icon Parish Paper December 2009 Are We a Leader-Sending Congregation
icon Parish Paper November 2009 Seven Roads to a Multicultural Congregation Free Resources Opportunity
icon Parish paper October 2009 Women Pastors--Are Our Assumptions Correct
icon Parish Paper September 2009 Are We Singing The Right Hymns
icon Parish Paper August 2009 Shepherding Churches Through Grief Storms
icon Parish Paper July 2009 Lay Testamonials Strengthen Giving
icon Parish Paper June 2009 One Congregation Many Locations
icon Parish Paper May 2009 Permanent Endowment Fund
icon Parish Paper April 2009 What Do People Want In Their Pastors
icon Parish Paper March 2009 Going Inot all the World: Church Website Basics
icon Parish Paper January 2009 How to Identify Our Church's Unstated Assumptions