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An interview tool to help congregations in a clergy search process identify individuals with strong team leadership skills.
By Cathie Caimano
Across our church congregations wrestle with decisions related to clergy staffing. Recognizing many congregations may associate moving to part time clergy a ‘failure. ‘ Cathie Caimano suggests reframing the conversation by asking different questions and adopting a different mindset in “Part Time ≠ Less Than."
By Jan Henderson
St. John’s Episcopal Church [de Jackson Hole, Wyoming] está lista para la “próxima gran cosa.” ¿Por qué me siento así? Como feligresía, estamos participando unidos y tenemos el corazón, el talento y la valentía para tener un gran impacto positivo en nuestra comunidad siguiendo las enseñanzas de Jesús.
Lo que tenemos por delante es el reto – y la oportunidad – de obtener un nue...
By Nancy Davidge
By Jan Henderson
During the time of clergy transition, the senior warden is responsible for leading the congregation in their search for a new rector. In “Leading through Transition,” senior warden Jan Henderson shares the process she and her vestry developed in their recent search for an interim rector.
By Richelle Thompson
By Richelle Thompson
By Donald Romanik
For many churches, the one church one priest model is no longer possible, creating opportunities for different models of leadership. In “Equal Partners,” Donald Romanik shares a story of a congregation – and a diocese – committed to the development of healthy and effective lay clergy partnerships to build up the Body of Christ in our changing world.
By Henry Parsley
In “I Really Miss Vestry Meetings,” Henry Parsley, retired bishop of Alabama states “vestries should be one of the most exciting ministries in the church – joyful, in fact” and then shares the key components that he, after working with vestries for many years, believes are integral to vestry vitality.
By Richelle Thompson
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