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.
Parish Paper August 2010 - How Much Should We Pay Our Pastor Parish Paper July 2010 - Should Congregations Use Internet Social Media Parish Paper June 2010 Why Does Mentoring Succeed and Fail? Parish Paper May 2010 Generous Givers -- A Product of Motivation and Methods Parish Paper April 2010 What Can We Learn From The Emerging Church Movement Parish Paper March 2010 New Trends in Belonging Parish Paper February 2010 Should We Fine Tune Our Churchs Internal Culture Parish Paper January 2010 Becoming Comfortable with Conflict - Step One To Moving Beyond It
