Focus Interviews Searching for Clergy and Staff Leadership: Part 3 of 3
Search committees are always looking for pastors and additional staff, but they need to know the difference between mission-driven leadership and maintenance-drive leadership. Here is the first set of distinctions you need to make in your interviews: I am in a therapeutic process I am charging ahead with clarity of purpose Ministry is a stage in […]
Focus Interviews Searching for Clergy and Staff Leadership
Search committees are always looking for pastors and additional staff, but they need to know the difference between mission-driven leadership and maintenance-drive leadership. Here is the first set of distinctions you need to make in your interviews: Maintenance Mission Serving the church Serving the Mission Serving the membership Serving Christ Care Taking for members Care Giving to […]
Great Mentors
Leadership development requires a core group of mentors. This should include the pastor, of course, but must expand to include other staff and key volunteer leaders. The #1 reason seekers come to church is to find mentors who can help them endure the ambiguities and overcome the obstacles in life. Every great mentor is both […]
Leadership Team Field Exercise 1: Spiritual Leadership
By: John Laster From “Gaining Traction” (Chalice Press, 2007) Leadership teams are too busy “doing,” and rarely spend enough time thinking and sharing with one another about who God has called them to be and how they are functioning together. Use this Field Exercise as a catalyst for some needed heart level conversation in your team. […]
What’s the Point?
What’s the Point? By Bill Tenny-Brittian We were asked recently to revisit some of the basics of what it takes to grow/transform a church. Recently I attended a church that has plateaued in its average worship attendance (AWA) at about 400. Although there were a number of improvements they could make so their worship service […]
Peer Coaching
By Bill Tenny-Brittian There’s a new “craze” in the world of church leadership development called “Peer Coaching.” Although peer coaching isn’t really “new,” there’s been renewed interest in it because of the inability of most church leaders to transform their stagnant or dying congregations. The hope is if they throw a dozen local church leaders together […]