Category: Managing Expectations

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 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 Boundaries, Children and Youth, Church Decline, Church Growth & Vitality, Contracting and Negotiating Before Beginning, External Relations, Governance, Managing Expectations Tagged with

13 min 28 s

Rev. Gail Irwin

  • Non-threatening ways to help a congregation declining in numbers begin to think about sharing a pastor (or their building) with another congregation;
  • Using your position as the interim minister to investigate the wider community on behalf of the cong.
  • Good questions an entering interim minister can ask to help a congregation declining in numbers gain a positive mindset;
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