10 min 49 s
Rev. Erica Avena
- It begins with your first interview with them
- What to ask in your first interview
- How I form and use a transition team
- How soon to define the goals of the interim period
- How I get buy-in from the congregation on the goals of the interim period
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8 min 50 s
Rev. Lynn Carman Bodden
- Helping children & youth understand the transition
- Thoughts about having a youth on the Pastor Search Committee
- Ways to help youth feel important to the transition / interim process
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11 min 12 s
Rev. Quentin Chin
- How hospice philosophy relates to congregations in decline
- The positive message of hospice
- Be the best church you can be right now!
- Even in decline, there are still lots of things you can do
- Finiteness is what makes a thing valuable
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10 min 24 s
Rev. Dr. Jonathan New
- The five key features of church life I pay attention to
- Exploring the congregation’s core governing principles – its “DNA”
- Does it matter which kinds of assessments to use?
- Helping the congregation to increase its self-understanding
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10 min 43 s
Rev. Dr. Jonathan New
- How I think about the church’s capacity to be and to do church
- The 5 things that bear directly on a congregation’s capacity to be/do church
- Helping the congregation to increase its self-understanding
- The pattern of who leaves a church and who stays
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09 min 00 s
Rev. Dr. Jonathan New
- No cookie cutter way of doing interim ministry
- The true purpose of the interim time as I see it
- How I know that my time with the congregation is coming to an end
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09 min 54 s
Rev. Dr. Jonathan New
- What is “faithfulness” for a church?
- How a congregation’s notion of faithfulness affects the interim experience
- Telltale signs that a church is coming to its end (It’s not always obvious)
- Helping a congregation to faithfully think through a “threshold” point where closure is a real possibility
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12 min 33 s
Rev. Cindy Mueller
- Helping a congregation understand the value of having a trained intentional interim minister
- Difference between an “interim minister” and an “intentional (trained) interim minister”
- Guidance for lay leaders as they approach the interim time
- How to lower the anxiety during the interim time
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14 min 06 s
Rev. Gail Irwin
- A case study in pastor sharing that began with sharing an interim pastor as a feasibility experiment for sharing a settled pastor;
- Helping a cong. accept the reality that they can no longer afford a full-time pastor, and leading them into new territory in creative and hopeful ways;
- Leading the creation of a shared culture when two congregations decide to share a pastor.
- Good questions to ask when considering a shared pastor ministry model (two congregations sharing a pastor);
- Helping a cong. understand the details of moving from a full-time to a half-time pastor;
- Key things that made the half-time pastor sharing model work successfully;
- My 3 key training areas to equip the lay leaders for success in a half-time pastor-sharing ministry model;
- How the interim minister can be a catalyst for helping a congregation move into a pastor-sharing model.
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12 min 30 s
Rev. Chris Mereschuk
- When is Designated Term appropriate?
- Designated Term puts everything on the table
- When serving as an interim pastor, what if calling a settled pastor next isn’t what’s really needed?
- Designated Term: you do have goals, but maybe not a specific outcome (like being ready to call a settled pastor)
- How Interim Pastors and Designated Pastors can work together
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