Category: Leadership Development

Posted in Contracting and Negotiating Before Beginning, Denomination Related, Governance, Leadership Development, Managing Expectations Tagged with

8 min 14 s

Rev. Lynn Carman Bodden

  • Why taking an interim job outside of your home denomination can make you a more effective interim minister
  • Taking a job outside your home denomination can expand your marketability
  • Tips for learning the polity of a different denomination
  • Tips for managing the differing expectations and cultures of other denominations
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Posted in Boundaries, Church Decline, Church Growth & Vitality, Leadership Development, Managing Expectations, Pastoral Care, Preaching, Volunteers Tagged with

10 min 58 s

Rev. Quentin Chin

  • Helping the congregation think realistically about part-time ministry
  • Reframing part-time ministry from loss to gain
  • Ideas for how to lead Confirmation, preaching, etc., in new ways
  • Is attending church suppers considered “work” for the pastor? If so, how to negotiate that
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Posted in Change Management, Church Decline, Contracting and Negotiating Before Beginning, Denomination Related, Entering and Engaging the Congregation, Governance, Leadership Development, Staff Tagged with

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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Posted in Church Decline, Church Growth & Vitality, Leadership Development, Spiritual Formation, Volunteers Tagged with

12 min 10 s

Rev. Jeff MacDonald

  • Characteristics of churches that thrive after moving to a part-time pastor;
  • Highlights of how lay ministries benefit the congregation;
  • Creating platforms for laypeople to share experiences of meaningful engagement;
  • Barriers hindering lay people from using their gifts; Suggestions for how the pastor can help lay people to overcome barriers to using their gifts in ministry;
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14 min 10 s

Rev. Jeff MacDonald

  • Being intentional rather than reactionary in the move to a part-time pastorate;
  • Questions to help the laity get clear about their roles in the move to a part-time  pastorate;
  • Key questions to ask yourself to understand how your pastorate is structured now;
  • Formal vs. unspoken expectations and their consequences;
  • Allowing the laity to do what they’ve long been authorized to do but don’t realize it;
  • Helping the laity to see that there’s actually very little that is doable only by the pastor;
  • Seeing the pastor as a strategic resource to advance the mission of the congregation;
  • Why being clear about the congregation’s mission is so essential to a successful part-time pastorate;
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Posted in Church Decline, Church Growth & Vitality, Governance, Leadership Development, Managing Expectations, Mission and Vision, Spiritual Formation, Volunteers Tagged with

14 min 30 s

Rev. Jeff MacDonald

  • How the pastor can overcome resistance by the laity;
  • How can a pastor help a congregation move beyond the resistance that just comes up when, when change is in the air;
  • Being intentional rather than reactionary in the move to a part-time pastorate;
  • Questions to help the laity get clear about their roles in the move to a part-time  pastorate;
  • Key questions to ask yourself to understand how your pastorate is structured now;
  • Formal vs. unspoken expectations and their consequences;
  • Allowing the laity to do what they’ve long been authorized to do but don’t realize it;
  • Helping the laity to see that there’s actually very little that is doable only by the pastor;
  • Seeing the pastor as a strategic resource to advance the mission of the congregation;
  • Why being clear about the congregation’s mission is so essential to a successful part-time

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