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  • Reaching for that trapeze bar ✓
    Our responses to change and transition in congregational life vary because our understanding of them is influenced by our experiences and individual temperament.
  • Interim rectorship: Shalts and shalt nots ✓
    Thou shalt…encourage more lay leadership. All too often, the last rector might have simply found it easier to “do it him/herself.”
  • A warden’s guide: Surviving the process ✓
    Think of this time as the longest Advent season you have ever experienced.
  • “I could fill this job in about a week!” ✓
    "Why should we spend a year trying to get a new minister? I could fill this job in about a week!" the vestry member proclaimed. "Yes," I replied, "but it's not a good idea."
  • Healthy Transitions Part 2: The Role of Leaders
    As a vestry member during a change in ordained leadership you play a critical role in making the transition a healthy one. Both the change and the transition need to be managed. Returning to the example of Moses we used last month, here are some addi…
  • Healthy Transitions Part 1
    Change in ordained leadership in a congregation creates a time of both challenge and opportunity. As a vestry member you play a critical role in making the transition a healthy one.