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Christian Ministry

Professional association for those involved with the various aspects of Christian ministry

Professional Associations

Bible

American Bible Society

American Bible Society has been engaging people with God’s Word for nearly 200 years. Our mission is to make the Bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford, so that all people may experience its life-changing message.

Bibles International

Provides translation services for missionaries and national church associations who do not have a Bible, or do not have a clear, reliable, and natural translation in their own language.

Society of Biblical Literature
The oldest and largest learned society devoted to the critical investigation of the Bible from a variety of academic disciplines

Evangelism

Billy Graham Center

Offers resources of scholarship, leadership training, and strategic partnership to stimulate evangelism and broader missional directives.

Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ International)

Worldwide, interdenominational Christian ministry committed to showing people how they can know and experience God's plan for their lives.

National Campus Ministry Association

With over four decades of advocacy, collegiality, and commitment to ministry in higher education, The National Campus Ministry Association offers support for personal and professional growth to those engaged in campus ministry.

Pastoral Counseling

American Association of Christian Counselors

An association for counselors with a distinctively Christian perspective this site provides information about the association, conferences and training events, and other resources. Some resources are limited to members.

Celebrate Recovery

Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered ministry to grant people freedom from their hurts, hang-ups, and habits. It was founded by Rick Warren.

Emerge Ministries

Emerge Ministries is a full-service Evangelical Christian mental health outpatient center dedicated to helping churches minister to the needs of Christian believers.

Focus on the Family

Focus on the Family is a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive. They provide help and resources for couples to build healthy marriages that reflect God’s design, and for parents to raise their children according to morals and values grounded in biblical principles.

Theology

American Academy of Religion
The Academy is dedicated to furthering knowledge of religion and religious institutions in all their forms and manifestations. Their mission is to promote reflection through excellence in scholarship and teaching in the field of religion.

Evangelical Theological Society
A professional, academic society of Biblical scholars, teachers, pastors, students, and others involved in evangelical scholarship

Wesleyan Theological Society

The Wesleyan Theological Society is a growing group of scholars who have joined together for several reasons. The society...seeks to encourage the exchange of ideas among Wesleyan-Holiness theologian acts as a source of ideas and essays for Christian Holiness Partnership seminars stimulates scholarship among younger theologians, pastors, and inquiring laity publishes a scholarly journal twice a year.

Women

Wesleyan Holiness Women Clergy    The mission of Wesleyan Holiness Women Clergy is to encourage & equip women called by God to vocational Christian ministry within the Wesleyan/Holiness tradition for the advancement of God’s Kingdom. The vision of WHWC is to nurture women clergy through education, networking, resources and personal encouragement and to advocate for women clergy in all aspects of church and professional leadership; serving as a resource to our supporting church traditions.

Youth Ministry

Association of Youth Ministry Educators  A professional organization for those who teach youth ministry at the graduate or undergraduate level. AYME seeks to be an organization that encourages and challenges youth ministry educators, offers opportunities for youth ministry educators to network with each other, and provides an environment to dialogue around the issues significant to youth ministry education.

International Christian Education Association CEA provides training workshops and conferences for Vacation Bible School and church ministry.

International Network of Children's Ministry

The mission of INCM is to train, motivate, encourage, network and resource Christian leaders who minister to children.

National Network of Youth Ministries

The National Network of Youth Ministries links youth workers for encouragement, spiritual growth, and sharing resources, in order to expose every teenager to the gospel of Jesus Christ, establish those who respond in a local church, and disciple them to help reach the world.