I’ve just received my third installment of resources from Relevant Network. I reviewed my first box, meant to review my second but got a little bit busy, and now want to tell you what came in my third (and also allude to the second when appropriate).
In both the second and third boxes I received 5 copies of the most recent issue of Relevant Magazine. Nice for handouts to students–I gave away the last ones and I’ll give these away as well.
In both of the last two boxes I received the little magazinelet Relevant Leader, which seems to be developing into something a little more than the annotated resource review it was in the first box.
As in the previous two boxes I received a good mix of books and CDs.
The CDs include:
- Jami Smith — Home
- Hymns Ancient & Modern by Passion Ministries.
- Desperation: From The Rooftops
- Israel & New Breed: Live From Another Level
- Everything Counts: Worship Songs for Radical Living
The books are:
- The Word on the Street by Rob Lacey (the box had the UK edition–the US edition won’t be out until September). There was also an enhanced CD based on the book.
- Summoned To Lead by Leonard Sweet
- Miles to Cross by Mike Howerton
- Making Sense of Church by Spencer Burke (nice website, worth checking out)
- Rock Stars on God by Doug Van Pelt
- Here I Am To Worship by Tim Hughes
My criticism of the first box (that it contained almost no ministry resources) has been tended to, incidentally. The last box, for instance, contained a Highway Video DVD and a Blueprints CD from Crave Resources. I wasn’t as impressed with the Blueprints CD as I wanted to be, by the way.
This box carries on the resource trend with a DVD called That’s My King from Vertical Sky Productions. There is also a journaly kind of Bible-study thing to accompany the Miles to Cross book.
All in all, I still think Relevant Network is the best bang for buck any ministry to collegians or twentysomethings is likely to run across.