What Can Churches Share Besides a Pastor?

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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;
Rev. Gail Irwin

Rev. L. Gail Irwin has served UCC and PCUSA churches as a settled and Intentional Interim Pastor in Wisconsin.  She is a freelance writer and the author of Toward the Better Country: Church Closure and Resurrection (Wipf & Stock, 2014).  Her blog can be found at http://freelancepastor.wordpress.com.

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