Category: Entering and Engaging the Congregation

Posted in Change Management, Conflict Management, Contracting and Negotiating Before Beginning, Entering and Engaging the Congregation, Managing Expectations Tagged with

10 min 58 s

Rev. Erica Avena

  • Going in with an open agenda
  • Knowing which problems can be fixed and which can only be managed
  • Letting the congregation know up front what you’re willing to do and not willing to do
  • Dealing with a staff problem the lay leadership has been avoiding
  • Process tips for terminating an employee
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Posted in Change Management, Contracting and Negotiating Before Beginning, Entering and Engaging the Congregation, Finishing and Exiting, Managing Expectations, Mission and Vision, Team Building Tagged with

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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Posted in Boundaries, Contracting and Negotiating Before Beginning, Entering and Engaging the Congregation, Pastoral Care, Preaching, Self-Care, Worship Tagged with

14 min 15 s

Rev. Quentin Chin

  • Thinking about what else I can do as a bi-vocational pastor
  • What is the congregation’s obligation to the pastor in terms of fair pay?
  • Setting healthy boundaries for time worked as a bi-vocational pastor
  • Get agreement on expectations ahead of time
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Posted in Assessments and Evaluations, Change Management, Church Decline, Church Growth & Vitality, Entering and Engaging the Congregation, Legacy Churches / Church Closing Tagged with

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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