Tag: Rev. Chris Mereschuk

Posted in Change Management, Church Decline, Church Growth & Vitality, Contracting and Negotiating Before Beginning, Entering and Engaging the Congregation, Is Interim Ministry for Me?, Mission and Vision Tagged with

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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Posted in Change Management, Church Decline, Entering and Engaging the Congregation, Legacy Churches / Church Closing, Mission and Vision Tagged with

10 min 43 s

Rev. Chris Mereschuk

  • Key questions to build relationships with people at the beginning;
  • How to avoid closed ended questions;
  • Getting the congregation to think more deeply about their future when closure is a real possibility;
  • Helping the congregation get to its “Why”
  • Assessing the capacity of the congregation for ministry; Questions to help a declining congregation think realistically about its options;
  • Questions to help a declining congregation think realistically about its options;
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