I'd love there to be a Logos base package or booster pack for Children's Ministry, Youth Ministry, Pastoral Care and Worship Ministry etc.
That's an interesting and worthwhile idea. I'm surprised FL hasn't offered such things.
What makes base packages special is the 90% discount on the resources included. My expectation is that Logos would be limited in their ability to discount many of the resources to this extent that would fall under specific ministry categories. While I agree it would be great to pick up so many helpful resources in these categories at such a steep discount, I think it unlikely. But I would like to be wrong.
It’s there already, just like the restoration base package we’ve been asking for years! The resources are already there, you just have to create the collections.
DAL
Would love to see a package on Jail/Prison Ministry. That would be really helpful.
Hospital/Hospice ministry seems to me to be a huge area of possible expansion for Logos, yet many of the core books of the past fifteen years relevant to this field are not sold by Logos.
There's always books and packages that could/should/would be added to Logos. I have been waiting for books to roll out of what were CP packages for years. That and the promised books I have already paid for. I'm very patient, but I am thinking that maybe Logos should hire some more people to build the best library into what it should be.
Those packages would rather be library expansions, I'd say, since they're much narrower in scope than base packages.
Many years ago, there was a Chaplain's package, but it's long gone.[:(]
That’s exactly what I was thinking. There’s no such a thing as a base package for hospice or any other ministry. The only thing feasible is library expansions so people can broaden their perspective on certain areas of ministry. There are plenty of youth ministry resources, but a base package wouldn’t work. A base package the way it’s been all the time is discounted books with functionalities/features. All those books and feature/functionalities are used to prepare for different topics. It’s up to the individual to apply it in the different areas of ministry, but no base package is going to tell you how to go about doing hospice or prison ministries — the books on those subjects will, and there are plenty already. A base package on different “ministries” would just clutter the line up that really matters. I can understand a Baptist Base Package or even a future Restoration Movement Package, because they deal with different theological perspectives, not ministries. That’s why the Chaplin base package failed to take off and was removed, because it’s a ministry not a theological perspective that differs from another. Baptist and Restorationist think differently on many theological perspectives but they both do prison ministry, benevolence, hospice, etc.
Anyway, enough said. Is not feasible but that’s just my opinion.
Library Expansion would be fine but a solid bundle of books for resourcing those ministries would be great.
Those packages would rather be library expansions, I'd say, since they're much narrower in scope than base packages. That’s exactly what I was thinking. There’s no such a thing as a base package for hospice or any other ministry. The only thing feasible is library expansions so people can broaden their perspective on certain areas of ministry. There are plenty of youth ministry resources, but a base package wouldn’t work. A base package the way it’s been all the time is discounted books with functionalities/features. All those books and feature/functionalities are used to prepare for different topics. It’s up to the individual to apply it in the different areas of ministry, but no base package is going to tell you how to go about doing hospice or prison ministries — the books on those subjects will, and there are plenty already. A base package on different “ministries” would just clutter the line up that really matters. I can understand a Baptist Base Package or even a future Restoration Movement Package, because they deal with different theological perspectives, not ministries. That’s why the Chaplin base package failed to take off and was removed, because it’s a ministry not a theological perspective that differs from another. Baptist and Restorationist think differently on many theological perspectives but they both do prison ministry, benevolence, hospice, etc. Anyway, enough said. Is not feasible but that’s just my opinion. DAL
I think this just takes us back to the perennial question facing Logos' product expansion: which comes first, the chicken or the egg? As in, which comes first: the product or the customer base? I think one of the failures of the previous chaplain package is that it wasn't focused enough, and depended too much on Logos' own limited library. "Chaplaincy" (especially hospital chaplaincy, but I saw this in military chaplaincy as well) is an area of ministry whose spiritual principles take the shape almost in the absence of an exclusive/express theological framework ("spiritual care" is its own spirituality without particular theological commitments, but it does make up its own...).
But, I don't disagree with you. Far from it. A hospital chaplain base package would not necessarily require its own bible translation, confessional documents, etc., as a denominational base package. But like the Academic packages, there is a diversity of resources out there (again, emphasis on out there, as in: not available in Logos) that could build out proper packages, and then you can just sprinkle in your own favorite scriptures as you see fit (although even a very basic chaplain package would contain not just a few different Bible translations, but also some Buddhist sutras, the Book of Mormon, the Qu'ran, etc.). Logos just needs to get the customers first... or else, commit to getting the resources that will get the customers.
