The Pastor's Handbook

Funerals, Weddings and Dedications

von Pastor Terry Mann

82 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Sunday you can prepare for. These arrive with a phone call.

Somebody dies on Tuesday and you are standing in front of the family onThursday. A couple asks you to marry them and suddenly you are running arehearsal and holding a legal document with a filing deadline. A young motherasks about having her baby dedicated, and half the church is not sure what a>Seminary gave these one afternoon between them.

THE PASTOR'S HANDBOOK is what should have been in your hands the first time.>FUNERALS AND MEMORIAL SERVICES. What to say on that first phone call and thethree things never to say. The family interview, with the eight questions thatactually produce a eulogy. Timed orders of service for a funeral, a memorial anda graveside. The call to worship, the committal in both burial and cremationforms, and the benediction, printed to be read aloud on the worst day of yourweek. Working with the funeral director. And the hard ones - the death of achild, suicide, when you do not know where the person stood with God, and when>WEDDINGS. What to ask before you agree, and when to say no. Four premaritalsessions written out. How to run a rehearsal for thirty people who are alltalking at once. Three ceremony lengths, three sets of vows, and every word fromthe welcome to the presentation. The marriage license, who signs it, and your>BABY DEDICATIONS AND WATER BAPTISM. What a dedication is and what it is not.The charge to the parents, including the question most churches never ask. Fivethings to teach before anyone gets in the water. And the mechanics nobodyteaches - water temperature, footing, the hold, and how to keep hold until they>FREE PRINTABLE FORMS. The interview sheets, checklists, the ceremony scriptpage and both certificates are yours to download and print as often as you need>Scripture is from the Berean Standard Bible. Buy it once and use it for the lifeof your ministry - permission is given to reproduce the checklists, interview>Written for solo pastors, bivocational pastors, associate pastors handed theirfirst funeral, chaplains, and anyone who has ever driven to a house not knowingwhat they were going to say.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798172850752
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published