Books with title Imagination

Christian congregations, like just about everything else in our culture, are undergoing tremendous change. That's not a huge revelation. Almost everyone involved with congregations agrees with that statement, because we live with that reality. One of the central changes for congregations today is that they are no longer the center of social and cultural life in most communities. Today, depending on where you live, churches are somewhere between slightly off center and all the way at the margins of centers of social influence in their communities. Perhaps no group of churches has experienced this shift more dramatically than "Old First" churches. Another change is that denominational organizations are no longer the repository of all resources, services, and expertise that congregations need to be effective. Often, the true "experts" are not denominational organizations, but other congregations. The best denominational organizations see their task, primarily, as cultivating a network of churches and ministry partners and connecting them to one another as a community of mutual learning and resourcing.With these changes in mind, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina (CBFNC) partnered with First Baptist Church Wilmington and others in 2010 to produce the first "Hopeful Imagination" conference. The centerpiece of the conference was telling the story of FBC Wilmington in the words of its leaders. It was a story of how an "Old First" church adapted to our changing times and managed not only to survive, but also to thrive. In addition to the resource of the FBC story, we brought in other leaders who made contributions to the corporate learning. Teams of congregational leaders attended the conference, listened to the stories, and returned home to apply their learning in their own congregations and communities.

Young children will love to join Orin and his Mum as they're drawn into the wonderful world of imagination. Follow Orin as he transforms a game with a seemingly ordinary box into a fantastic journey the whole family will relate to and enjoy.The Imagination Box gives parents the opportunity to be theatrical in their retelling. Aimed at children from toddlers through to school age, it's a perfect gift for an early reader or a great addition to your child's bedtime story collection.

From the creator of Albert, Barney and the Canvas Board comes another fun, innovative book for children consisting of rhyming verses and black-and-white mosaic illustrations. At first glance, it may appear to be just a small dot. However, it has the potential to be so much more. It could be an ant. It could be a tree. It could be a flower. It could be anything in the world. Do you know what it is? It is Imagination.

Christian congregations, like just about everything else in our culture, are undergoing tremendous change. That's not a huge revelation. Almost everyone involved with congregations agrees with that statement, because we live with that reality. One of the central changes for congregations today is that they are no longer the center of social and cultural life in most communities. Today, depending on where you live, churches are somewhere between slightly off center and all the way at the margins of centers of social influence in their communities. Perhaps no group of churches has experienced this shift more dramatically than "Old First" churches. Another change is that denominational organizations are no longer the repository of all resources, services, and expertise that congregations need to be effective. Often, the true "experts" are not denominational organizations, but other congregations. The best denominational organizations see their task, primarily, as cultivating a network of churches and ministry partners and connecting them to one another as a community of mutual learning and resourcing.With these changes in mind, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina (CBFNC) partnered with First Baptist Church Wilmington and others in 2010 to produce the first "Hopeful Imagination" conference. The centerpiece of the conference was telling the story of FBC Wilmington in the words of its leaders. It was a story of how an "Old First" church adapted to our changing times and managed not only to survive, but also to thrive. In addition to the resource of the FBC story, we brought in other leaders who made contributions to the corporate learning. Teams of congregational leaders attended the conference, listened to the stories, and returned home to apply their learning in their own congregations and communities.

In the Club of the Unknown, where the music blares and the faces are hidden behind masks, Gwyn meets a boy. Not just any boy, but one she is certain she has met before. Only that's not possible. Gwyn lives in the last city of men, where memories are made through repetition and yesterday is forgotten with the reset. The world has peace, what's left of it anyway. Peace that has been gained through sacrifice. But as behavioural school ends and Gwyn is sent out into the work force, she discovers that not everyone resets. Not everything is as it seems. The peace they live in is as fake as the masks they wear in the clubs. She starts to see that the walls surrounding the city, to keep the monsters out, might actually be keeping them in. And maybe the boy she thought she knew, isn't what he appeared to be at all. Don't miss this exciting new Post Apocalyptic Romance from the author of the bestselling series The Born Trilogy!

This is a book that contains two fables. One story concerns an adventure of a young girl who lives in a town where everyone dresses as a clown and has a clown's face. The second fable is about a town and its surrounding farms that have all futuristic computer technology. Suddenly, in the dead of winter the power is cut off. Both stories are intended to stimulate the readers' and listeners' imaginations with the mind of each providing the illustrations.With a nod to Aesop, there is an opportunity, at the end of each fable, to synthesize the main idea of the fable in the form of a moral. After that activity, the author offers his thought on the moral of the fable. Finally, the fables are intended to create some humor about as well as some insight into the human condition.