Dave Stotts hosts the five-session DVD study Effective Stewardship: Doing What Matters Most, which is "about more than the money we drop into the collection plate." Released this month by Zondervan, the $19.99 program considers talents and skills and care for the environment, as well as personal finances.

Popular pastor and leadership teacher Andy Stanley explores Five Things God Uses to Grow Your Faith in the six-session DVD available this month from Zondervan. Each session includes a 15- to 20-minute teaching, with full-length messages also included. Retail price, $24.99.

The ladies get their turn with Comedy Angels, also to be released next month by E1 Entertainment. Running 70 minutes, the "church clean ... club funny" program presents Teresa Roberts Logan, Leslie Norris Townsend, Donna East, T. Marni Vos and Elissa Musumeci and is due to be aired soon on the Gospel Music Channel. Retail price, $14.98.

The Comedy Bus released Laugh Tracks and Cracked Up from INO Records last month. Featuring comedians, impressionists and musical comedians, each title is distributed by Provident-Integrity, runs about 45 minutes and retails for $14.98.

Guardian Studios brings The Best of Bananas Comedy: Bunch Volume 4 to retail stores next month. The $9.99 program, to be distributed by EMI CMG, includes 40 minutes of the funniest material from six Bananas regulars. Among those featured is Bob Nelson, whose complete Bananas show is included.

Former Disney star Dean Jones appears in Mandie and the Secret Tunnel, releasing Sept. 22 from Lost World Pictures. Set in 1899 with the young heroine exploring a mansion that holds the keys to her past, the DVD is the first full-length adaptation of the popular "Mandie" fiction series for girls by Lois Gladys Leppard. It retails for $19.95.