{"id":253,"date":"2008-09-08T09:15:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/?p=253"},"modified":"2008-09-10T05:46:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T11:46:01","slug":"nancy-beach-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2008\/09\/nancy-beach-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifted to Lead 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towardwonder.com\/bloghome.asp\">Nancy Beach<\/a> has been a true help to the church at large&#8211; teaching us about the power of creativity and the value of collaborative leadership in the worship planning process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now she has a new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGifted-Lead-Leading-Woman-Church%2Fdp%2F0310285968%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1220493170%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">Gifted to Lead: The Art of Leading as a Woman in the Church<\/a><\/em>. (If the Cov Bookstore can stock this, I&#8217;ll change that link from Amazon to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covenantbookstore.com\/\">Cov Books<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Alice Shirley is discussing the book over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/?p=4274\">Jesus Creed<\/a>. So I encourage you to follow the discussion there, and generate some conversation here, if you wish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=253&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Beach has been a true help to the church at large&#8211; teaching us about the power of creativity and the value of collaborative leadership in the worship planning process.\u00a0 Now she has a new book, Gifted to Lead: The Art of Leading as a Woman in the Church. 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