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Creative Hospitality Ministries
4309 Sandy Spring Road, Burtonsville, MD 20866
Office: 301/384-3727  800/433-9274  FAX 301-421-4431 Email: peggymjh@msn.com
Some books may be out of print but if you are able to find them they are valuable reading.

Updated 3/16/05

AT THE LORD'S TABLE-COMMUNION MEDITATIONS. Ralph Turnbull, Baker Book House, 1967.PEDD

CALL TO COMMITMENT, Elizabeth O'Connor

CHRISTIAN HOSPITALITY MADE EASY. Patricia Mutch, Shepherdess International, A Continuing Education Course, 1986. NAD Evangelism Institute, 9047 US 31 North Suite 3, Berrien Springs, MI 49103, 616/471-9220 $16.95 + $2.05 U.S. Postage & handling ($4.20 Canada).*

CHURCH STAFF SUPPORT-CULTIVATING AND MAINTAINING STAFF RELATIONSHIPS.  Frank Olsen, Augsburg Pub House 1982. PEDD

COME OVER TO MY HOUSE.  Lora Parrott, Warner Press, 1984

CREATIVE HOSPITALITY AS A MEANS OF EVANGELISM. Bruce Rowlison, Green Leaf Press, 1981.*

CREATIVE HOSPITALITY, HOW TO TURN HOME ENTERTAINING INTO A REAL MINISTRY.  Nancy Van Pelt, 1995, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Hagerstown, MD 217040.  Includes Menu preparation and food presentation, reaching out to coworkers and neighbors, gracious serving and table decor, easy entertaining ideas for guests and their children, helping non-church members feel at home, handling difficult situations and accidents, how to keep events and conversation flowing, creating the perfect atmosphere with music and lighting, introductions and relating to guests, impromptu menus and quick fixes for an unprepared home, helpful hints for buffets, picnics, and fellowship dinners.  

DEACONESS MINISTRY MANUAL, Peggy Curtice Harris Revised 2003, Creative Hospitality Ministries, $10.00.  Designed for more than just Deaconesses to give new ideas to spark interest in making church ministry the best it can be.

ENCOUNTER WITH GOD, Peggy  Curtice Harris, 2004 www.authorhouse.com. Details four Biblical Encounters with God in relation to today’s world.  How God meets our needs through Biblical hospitality and learn skills to share that hospitality with others.

GOOD NEIGHBOR PLAN. Manual and video 1991. Church Ministries Dept. Pacific Union Conference of SDA. PO Box 5005, Westlake Village, CA 91359.  $29.95.

THE HIDDEN ART OF HOMEMAKING. Edith Schaeffer, Tyndale House Publishers, 1984.

THE HOUR THAT CHANGES THE WORLD.  Dick Eastman, Baker Book House.

HOW TO START A HOSPITALITY FELLOWSHIP, Creative Hospitality Publications.  4309 Sandy Spring Road, Burtonsville, MD 20866-1139 800/433-9274. $5.00.

IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME. Gaston Wallace, Southern Publishing Association.

IMPROVING YOUR SERVE.  Charles Swindoll, Word Books.

IT TAKES SO LITTLE TO BE ABOVE AVERAGE.  Florence Littauer, Harvest House Publishers.*

LETTERS TO SCATTERED PILGRIMS, Elizabeth O'Connor

MAKING STRESS WORK FOR YOU.  Lloyd J. Ogilvie, Word Books.  PEDD

MINISTRY OF HEALING.  Ellen G. White,

OPEN HEART OPEN HOME.  Karen Mains, David C. Cook Publishing Co.*

OPEN UP YOUR LIFE (A WOMAN'S WORKSHOP ON HOSPITALITY).  Latayne C. Scott,  Lamplighter Books.

THE DISILLUSIONED CHRISTIAN. Ken Abraham, Here's Life Pub. Inc. 1991.  Advice for the burned and the burned out.

PILGRIM'S PROGRESS IN TODAY'S ENGLISH.  James Thomas, (John Bunyan).  Moody Press, 1964

THE PERSONAL PROMISE POCKETBOOK.  Harold Shaw Publishers, 1980

RADICAL HOSPITALITY.  David & Ruth Rupprecht, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1983.

SACRED CHOW.  Adell Harvey & Mari Gonzalez, Abingdon Press, 1987

SERVANTS OR FRIENDS? Another Look at God. Graham Maxwell, Pine Knoll Publications, 1345 Pine Knoll, Redlands, CA 92373, 1992 *

SHARING NETWORK (A HANDBOOK).  The Walla Walla College Church

A SHEPHERD'S LOOK AT PSALM 23, Phillip Keller, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 1978.

THE SPIRIT CONTROLLED MAN. Tim LaHaye, Harvest House Publishers.*

THE SPIRIT CONTROLLED WOMAN. Beverly LaHaye, Harvest House Publishers, 1976 *

UNWRAP YOUR SPIRITUAL GIFTS.  Kenneth O. Gangel, Victor Books, Division of Scripture Press Pub. *

VERSES OF HOPE, Peggy Curtice Harris, 4309 Sandy Spring Road, Burtonsville, MD 20866. Caring poetry dealing with family, church, pain, suffering, and hope. These unique writings are designed for the reader to personalize for themselves or friends. $12.00 includes postage.

VERY INNOVATIVE PARTIES. Loma Linda University Dental Auxiliary, PO Box 382, Loma Linda, CA 92354 $19.95 + $2.50 postage & handling. (Non U. S. residents - $3.50)

WE DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE ANGELS (HOSPITALITY EVEN WHEN IT'S INCONVENIENT).  Doris W. Greig, Regal Books.

WELCOME BABY INTRODUCTORY KIT.  Dr. Kay Kuzma, Family Matter, Box 7000, Cleveland, TN 37320.  $49.95 + $4.00 Shipping.  Includes 10 Packets, Resource Manual, Partner Handbook, Silk Rose, Video.  $65 value if purchased separately. 

WHAT YOU CAN SAY.. WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY (REACHING OUT TO THOSE WHO HURT).  Lauren Briggs.  PEDD

WHEN BAD CHRISTIANS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE, Dave Burchett, ISBN 1-57856-490-5, WaterBrook Press 2002.  $11.99.  Where we have failed each other and how to reverse the damage.  Help for those who have been harmed by Christians and those who have inflicted the wounds..

WHEN SOME ONE YOU KNOW IS HURTING, (What You Can Do to Help) M. Gregory Richards, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI, Harper Paperbacks, New York, NY. 1994. 

YOU'RE SOMEONE SPECIAL.  Bruce Narramore, Zondervan Publishing House.

ZION, Champion for God, Joy J. Matthews with Helen Heavirland, Review & Herald Publishing Assoc. Hagerstown, MD 21740, 2004. Joy tells how she discovered that God’s plans are bigger than anything we can dream up.  How someone feeling like a nobody and an ugly duckling pup became a heartwarming duo with God’s help.

CARING FOR THE CAREGIVERS BOOKS

AGING IS A FAMILY AFFAIR, Victoria E. Bumagin and Kathryn P. Hirn, Lippincott and Crowell Books, 1979

THE OTHER GENERATION GAS: THE MIDDLE-AGED AND THEIR AGING PARENTS, Stephen Z. Cohen and Bruce M. Gans, New Century, 1978

THE 36-HOUR DAY, Nancy L. Mace, M.A. Peter V. Rabins, M.C., M.P.H. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.  PO Box 50370 Baltimore, MD 21211#13.95 + $4.00 shipping US funds.  A family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer Disease, related dementing illnesses, and memory loss in later life. 

TO HOLD A FALLING STAR. Betty Baker Spohr. Sirpos Press 1992. A chronicle of conviction and compassion detailing how the author coped with long-term care giving.  It humanizes Alzheimer victims and their caregivers.

YOU AND YOUR AGING PARENT: The Modern Family's Guide to Emotional, Physical, and Financial Problems, Barbara Silverstone and Helen Handel Hyman, Pantheon Books, 1982

* Highly recommended for members/leaders
* PEDD  recommended for Pastors, Elders, Deacons, Deaconesses

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