Emerging Elders: Developing Shepherds in God's Imageby Ron Clark Description This book is a manual for raising up and equipping elders or shepherds. It provides resources for identifying emerging leaders, for training elders and their wives, and for beginning an elder development program in a congregation. A vital resource for a neglected area of church life. "In the leadership literature the question is asked, 'Are people born leaders or do we train them to become leaders?' I suggest a third option.