The Trellis and the Vine

Author

Col Marshal and Tony Payne

Who should read it

Anyone involved in coordinating and leading ministry to young people

Why

How do you balance the heart of ministry - teaching, discipling, mentoring and praying for young people - with the bones of ministry, the structures ncessary to make ministry happen and make it effective under God? The Trellis and the Vine provides helpful insights to answer this question. The vine work of seeing people come to faith and mature into resillient disciples must be undergirded by the trellis work of 'creating and maintaining the physical and organisational structures and programs that support vine work'. It can be tempting to focus all our energy into vine work at the cost of neglecting structures and systems that facilitate and sustain ministry. Similarly it's possible to get so bogged down in trellis work or restrict vine work to so few that the workers become tired and the vine begins to wilt. Marshal and Payne explore these issues and provide helpful and practical advice.

Publisher

Matthias Media, 2009