Deacons are called to be heralds of the Word, servants of the Church, and agents of the bishop. This practical, popular, and completely revised handbook offers important information to help deacons participate and serve in the liturgy with grace, and sensitive to the needs of the presider and the people. An indispensable guide, Deacons in the Liturgy helps communities of faith use their deacons in ways appropriate to the dignity and meaning of the order. Readers will learn how to better employ the diaconate to enhance the liturgy and to express baptismal ministry in the life and worship of the Church.

Written for deacons of all denominations, this book has implications for the whole church as the issues it raises go beyond the diaconate and touch on the nature of the church itself, on its ministry and its use of the scriptures.

Twenty-three papers and letters on direct ordination from the House of Bishops Theology Committee, Council for the Development of Ministry, and other sources.

Plater has gathered in this book more information, insight, and usable material on the joy and task of liturgical intercession than can be found in any other single place. Leaders of intercessions should find this book immensely useful.

In this newly updated and revised introduction to the permanent diaconate, Ormonde Plater includes a history of deacons in the early church, a survey of deacons from the Reformation to the present, stories of modern diaconal ministries, and a discussion of the formation, training, and deployment of deacons.

Strauch's heartfelt burden is to help deacons get out of the boardroom or the building-maintenance mentality and into the people-serving mentality. Deacons, he maintains, are to be involved in a compassionate ministry of caring for the poor and needy.

This volume, which is the first result of the Anglo-Nordic Diaconal Research Project, explores the different ways in which the ministry of the deacon has developed in the Church of Sweden, Church of Norway, Church of England, and Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland. It also sets them in their wider ecumenical context and invites the churches to consider seriously the role of the deacon in the worship and witness of the Church.

A devotional pamphlet written by the seventh bishop of Kansas to aid in the understanding of the meaning of "servant ministry."

A supberb work providing insights on how the United Methodist deacon can relate to a world in need and provide a needed flexibility in ministry similar to that of the early days of Methodism on the frontier of the United States.

The Hanover Report of the Anglican-Lutheran International Commission. Published by the Anglican Consultative Council, distributed in the US by NAAD. Write for bulk order prices.