Leadership Tips & Training Healthy Holidays Book

As the holidays are approaching, your members are becoming very nostalgic. They are longing for Aunt Mary's pumpkin pie and Mom's cornbread dressing! To help your members get through the holidays successfully, you will want to consider using the new Healthy Holidays book. In it you will find daily devotionals, prayer journal pages, holiday helps, menus and recipes, and a section for the leader to use in the small group meetings. Plan a six week holiday session and use Healthy Holidays as your Bible study book. The Leader Guide, included in the book, will give you step by step instruction on how to conduct each one-hour meeting with recommended questions and activities. You may purchase this book at your local bookstore or in our online store.

Each month we will spotlight leadership tips and ideas from leaders all across the country. Send your ideas to and she will publish them in this spot each month.


Nancy Taylor is the First Place Leadership Training Director and joined the First Place staff in 1997. Nancy teaches leadership principles to First Place Leaders throughout the country and at Houston's First Baptist Church where she coordinates all the First Place groups. . Nancy also speaks at First Place workshops, rallies, retreats, and conferences, where she delights her audiences with humor and encourages them with boldness. She writes a monthly article, which includes helpful tips for leaders, for the First Place E-newsletter, and was a contributing writer to the Today is the First Day devotional book. Nancy is the resident First Place Bible Concordance because of her love for Scripture memory.