Download or read book Governance a Challenge to Small Churches written by Rakar Williams and published by DayeLight Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many church leaders struggle with the administrative arm of their church. GOVERNANCE: A CHALLENGE TO SMALL CHURCHES is a practical guide to assist those leaders. The foundation of the content is the findings from ten small Jamaican churches and supported by the work of various authors, personal insights and the experiences of the author. GOVERNANCE: A CHALLENGE TO SMALL CHURCHES provides information on critical areas of leadership, administration, and governance that small churches need to pay attention to. In this engaging book, the author share insights of his experiences in ministry and those gathered from other church leaders. This book is an excellent resource for persons aspiring to lead the church, so they can have a foundation on what is expected. The author also incorporates experiences from his professional career as a Senior Financial Manager.
Download or read book Governance and Ministry written by Dan Hotchkiss and published by Alban Institute. This book was released on 2009 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Governance and Ministry, Alban Institute senior consultant Dan Hotchkiss offers congregational leaders a roadmap and tools for changing the way boards and clergy work together to lead congregations. Hotchkiss demonstrates that the right governance model is the one that best enables a congregation to fulfill its mission--to achieve both the outward results and the inward quality of life to which it is called. Resources on governance for the nonprofit sector have burgeoned over the past decade, and this book translates some of what is most helpful from that world for clergy and lay leaders. it also recognizes that in some ways congregations are unique and need governance structures and processes different from those that work in other organizations. Leaders must continually balance the conserving function of an institution with the expectation of disruptive, change-inducting creativity that comes when individuals peek past the temple veil and catch fresh visions of the Holy. Governance in congregations is not the science of achieving optimal results through organizational re-engineering. Governance is an expressive art, like preaching. The forms of our congregations must reflect the values and perceptions of the sacred at their heart. Congregations need skills and methods for negotiating "our way" of governance and for passing the torch effectively to new leaders.
Download or read book The Unstuck Church written by Tony Morgan and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed church leader, blogger, founder and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, Tony Morgan unpacks the lifecycle of a typical church, identifies characteristics of each phase, and provides practical next steps a church can take to move towards sustained health. Think about your church for a moment. Is it growing? Is it diminishing? Is it somewhere in between? Acclaimed church leader, blogger, and founder and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, Tony Morgan has identified the seven stages of a church's lifecycle that range from the hopeful and optimistic days of launch, to the stagnating last stages of life support. Regardless of the stage in which you find your church, it carries with it the world's greatest mission—to "go and make disciples of all the nations . . ." With eternity at stake the Church should be doing most everything within its power to see lives changed forever. The Church should strive for the pinnacle of the lifecycle, where they are continually making new disciples and experiencing what Morgan refers to as "sustained health." In The Unstuck Church, Morgan unpacks each phase of the church lifecycle, and offers specific and strategic next steps the church leader can take to find it's way to sustained health . . . and finally become unstuck. The Unstuck Church is a call for honest an assessment of where your church sits on the lifecycle, and a challenge to move beyond it.
Download or read book The Gifts of the Small Church written by Dr. Jason Byassee and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dizzying changes have taken place in American religious life in the last half century. Yet in spite of that fact, taking a snapshot of a “typical” Christian church in America would reveal a surprising number of small-to-mid-sized congregations, rooted in a local neighborhood or community, tied to a specific denomination, where most of the members know each others’ names, and hence are blessed (and cursed) with being the church together. In this clear-eyed, humorous appraisal, Jason Byassee contends that the “church around the corner” occupies a particular place in the divine economy, that it is especially capable of forming us in the virtues, perspectives, and habits that make up the Christian life. Not that he romanticizes these churches, however. Having been a rural, small membership church pastor, Byassee knows too well the particular vices and temptations to which they are subject. But he also knows the particular graces they’ve been given, graces like the “prayer ladies,” those pillars of the congregation who, “when one told you she was praying for you it meant something. When one hugged you, you remembered all week. When one cooked for you the casserole tasted like love. And when you were around them you were in the presence of Jesus.” Anyone who serves, or belongs to, a “church around the corner” will find their ministry strengthened by this enlivening, inspiring book.
Download or read book Principles of Good Governance written by Michael C. Ruwa and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book PARADIGM SHIFT written by Johnny M. Wilson Jr. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Paradigm Shift, this book describes the challenges on intercultural relationships and with family related small to conservative African American Churches in the culture life of New England. in general. An examination of the complexes of change and addressing the need for more intercultural and communication within many churches. The term paradigm refers to a philosophical and theoretical framework for example, ideal or pattern. Many of these congregations have long standing in their communities; helping the poor, feeding the hungry, and spreading the good news of the gospel.
Download or read book Good Governance is Worth the Effort A Handbook for Christian Charities and Churches in Aotearoa written by Martyn Norrie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charities operate in an increasingly complex environment. Their charitable status does not excuse them from governing their organisation in a manner that complies with the myriad of laws and regulations that apply to their day-to-day operation. This book is written to help leaders and board members of Christian charities as they seek to outwork their calling in New Zealand. It aims to help you to encourage the team that God has placed you in, and to outwork His purposes in and through your organisation.
Download or read book The Challenge of the Church written by Edward H. Koster and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winds of change are buffeting the mainline Christian denominations, resulting in declines in members, attendance and financial support. Modernism, relativism and materialism collide with piety and debate over church orthodoxy. The author, an ordained Presbyterian minister and attorney trained in organizational change, examines four significant forces within the polity of the Church-distrust, polarization, politicking and an ineffective discernment process. In The Challenge of the Presbyterian Church, the author identifies two different theories of change and applies them to analyze factors that inhibit transformation. He goes on to propose a series of second-order/adaptive changes to enable the Church to struggle, learn and resolve seemingly intractable conflicts. He draws on works of current thinkers about change, adeptly applying them to the complex Church organization. While this book uses examples from the Presbyterian Church (USA), the principles of analysis and change are applicable and useful for any church or group confronted with the need to make deep changes in this difficult time. This work was originally published as "The Challenge of the Presbyterian Church: Opening Governance to the Movement of the Holy Spirit." Feedback from readers suggests that the principles of change the author writes about are applicable to churches of all kinds, and the examples from his experience in the Presbyterian Church (USA) can be broadly applied by analogy. The author has previously written extensively about specific issues within his denomination and has traveled across America talking to leaders of various sub groups in the church. He is the Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of Detroit and is nationally known in the Presbyterian Church (USA). A dialogue on this book and related matters has been created at http://thechallengeofthepresbyterianchurch.blogspot.com/. The author can be reached at [email protected].
Download or read book The Starfish and the Spider written by Ori Brafman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After five years of groundbreaking research, Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom share some gripping stories. The Starfish and the Spider argues that organizations fall into two categories: traditional "spiders," which have a rigid hierarchy and top-down leadership, and revolutionary "starfish," which rely on the power of peer relationships. This book explores what happens when starfish take on spiders (such as the music industry vs. Napster, Kazaa, and the P2P services that followed). It reveals how established companies and institutions, from IBM to Intuit to the U.S. government, are also learning how to incorporate starfish principles to achieve success."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Church Boards Leading with Excellence written by Ted Hull and published by . This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church boards are often the scene of confusion, conflict, and chaos. What's the job of a board? What's the role of the pastor in relation to the board? Should there be an elder board "and" an administrative board? Ted Hull's use of illustrations and analogies bring these questions-and answers-into focus. Ted first looks at the foundation of governance, both from a biblical and historic perspective. Then he introduces Policy Governance(r), often referred to as the Carver model, and confronts questions regarding whether this secular model can work in the church, or if it should even be allowed. He even argues for why a church board may not want to use Policy Governance. When you're done reading, you'll never look at the role of a church board in the same way again. In fact, whether you're a member of your church board or the board of any charity, you'll find yourself reaching for this book more than once. "With wit and wisdom, Ted draws from his rich and practical experience in church life and organizational governance to assist churches in understanding and applying Policy Governance(r) consistently and correctly." -Daniel Hamil, Ed.D. Executive Director/CEO North American Baptist Conference "Ted Hull approaches the topic of church governance in an engaging style that has you laughing and nodding... Even if you tend to be a 'doubting Thomas, ' I urge you to suspend your doubts long enough to read and absorb the message of this book." -Jannice Moore President, The Governance Coach Ted Hull, President of Ted Hull Consulting, has been involved with churches and para-church organizations for over thirty years. He has a passion to serve churches and charities by facilitating the process of governance excellence through coaching boards and leaders in the course of change. "
Download or read book The Challenge of Pluralism written by Stephen V. Monsma and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, and England. Stephen V. Monsma and J. Christopher Soper examine the historical roots and contemporary strategies of the different approaches each government has taken. Providing clarity on the little-understood, evolving relationship between church and state in the West, this book provides an invaluable comparative analysis of a topic that is increasingly a source of profound political and social conflict. The authors persuasively argue that the United States can learn a great deal from other Western democracies in promoting religious neutrality and the free exercise of religion.
Download or read book Leadership and Listening written by Donald E. Zimmer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church leaders must fundamentally change the way they view leadership, governance, and management in their organizations if they are to take seriously the need to listen to God's desires before acting. In Leadership and Listening, readers will find encouragement and specific suggestions for re-imagining church governance and management. Zimmer observes that the contemporary church is rooted in both the kingdom of God and the systems and cultures of government and business. Most people who serve in governing and management roles in the church in the United States today have been formed in the corporate world and acculturated to parliamentary process. As a result, many church governing boards are about 'business,' rather than their primary task: discerning God's desires for the part of the church they serve. Through research with more than one hundred church leaders, Zimmer learned that the church and the business community possess many insights and resources that can help boards shift toward a focus on seeking first the desires of God's heart and then responding effectively. By drawing on the guidance Zimmer offers, a church board can transform itself from a group that manages the day-to-day affairs of the church to one that makes listening, prayer, worship, reflection, and community the first priority.
Download or read book Developing Female Leaders written by Kadi Cole and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would your church look like if it maximized the dormant gifts of the women God has brought there? Discover how to develop and leverage the leadership abilities of women within your congregation. Leadership and people development veteran Kadi Cole offers a practical strategy to help church and organizational leaders craft cultures that facilitate the development of women as volunteer and staff leaders. In Developing Female Leaders, Cole shares eight easy-to-implement “best practices” that help accelerate a woman’s organizational contribution, such as: Seek to understand Clearly define what you believe Mine the marketplace Integrate spiritual formation and leadership development Be an “other” Create an environment of safety Upgrade your people practices Take on your culture Combined with current research, thorough appendices and references add even more guidance for setting vision, milestones, and goals. Using interviews and surveys of more than one thousand women in key church and organizational roles, Developing Female Leaders is a one-of-a-kind resource for identifying what is missing today in your church to help it flourish in the future.
Download or read book Handbook of Governance in Small States written by Lino Briguglio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers a wide spectrum of governance issues relating to small states in a global context. While different definitions of governance are given in the chapters, most authors associate governance with the setting and implementation of policies aimed at managing a country or territory, and with the related institutional structures and interventions by political actors. Generally, good governance is associated with concepts such as policy effectiveness, accountability, transparency, control of corruption, encouragement of citizens’ voice and gender equality—factors which are, in turn, linked with democracy. What emerges from the book is that the societies of small states are being re-shaped by various forces outside their control, including the globalization process and climate change, rendering their governance ever more complex. These problems are not solely faced by small states, but small country size tends to lead to a higher degree of exposure to external factors. The chapters are grouped into four sections broadly covering political, environmental, social and economic governance. Governance is influenced by many, often intertwined, factors; the division of the book into four parts therefore does not detract from the fact that governance is multifaceted, and such division was based on the primary focus of each particular study and its main disciplinary background. The expert authors have, moreover, used a variety of approaches in the studies, the subject of small states being well suited to scholarly work from different disciplines using qualitative, quantitative and mixed approaches to arrive at useful conclusions.
Download or read book Simple Governance written by Stephan Ross and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The structures of mainline Protestant congregations are designed to make sure they keep doing what they have done before. That isn't helpful when the way we've always done it doesn't work anymore. This book is about the basic principles of governance that support effective mission and ministry in a rapidly changing mission context. It describes how some United Methodist congregations are learning to simplify their church structures in order to allow them to innovate in ministry and become more responsive to their mission fields. The principles and practices described here can be useful to leaders in many other Protestant churches that are seeking to become more effective in mission.
Download or read book Challenges That Clergy In Small Black Churches Face In The 21st Century During The Covid Pandemic written by Dr. Samuel Paul and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership plays a critical role in any institution. Church leadership can guide the institution in the direction that it should go. In Small Black Churches (SBC), this research will identify the strategic leadership styles used in handling challenges. The intent is to identify the effectiveness of these styles in managing challenges in the 21st century church and their effect on personal leadership fulfillment. The study will interview pastors of local churches who had seminary training and those who did not. This author intends to record and transcribe the interviews for research purposes. By identifying the interviewees’ leadership styles, the researcher hopes to lay a foundation for more available literature to fill the research gap as it relates to small churches. The Bible states: “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit” (John 15:2, New King James Version). Some leadership styles are more effective than others because of the Biblical and holistic approach that follows Biblical principles. In Pastoral Care and Counseling, the leadership’s mission is to provide a haven for its people, leaders, and parishioners.
Download or read book Turnaround and Beyond written by Ron Crandall and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1995, Ron Crandall’s Turnaround Strategies for the Small Church has become required reading for anyone striving to revitalize the ministry of a small membership congregation. That book was built on extensive interviews and studies conducted in dozens of small membership churches, across several denominations, that had experienced significant turnaround. In a new study Crandall has now returned to those congregations to see what it takes to make the turnaround work over a period of years. Learning much from both the churches who maintained significant growth in numbers and ministry, and those that failed to do so, he offers even more helpful insight to any congregational leader seeking to take a small membership church into a new phase of witness and mission.
