Leadership
A Wise note from someone about worship
I’ve quite recently discovered that for some (many?) people worship means musical entertainment. To me liturgy means “the work of the people”, something offered to God by a community, by which the people become something together that they were not individually — the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. So liturgy is […]
Pastoral Visiting
Ministry Perspective #11: Who Rings the Door Bell Now? by John Simpson Is the home visit finished? Has this classic pastoral care strategy finally fallen by the way side? It seems that the door bells are not being rung as often these days. The preacher cum house caller model of pastoral leadership is fading. The […]
Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times
From a ministry-colleague: The most useful book I have read lately has been: “Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times – Being Calm and Courageous No Matter What” by Peter L Steinke (Alban Institute, 2006). I have often thought over the years that if anything was to drive me out of pastoral leadership it would be the […]
Who does what ministry in the church?
Someone asked: ‘What do we do with an unwelcoming welcomer who doesn’t greet people warmly, and sometimes chides them for being absent from church?’ My comment on this issue, from an ‘after the horse has bolted’ perspective. At Blackburn Baptist Church we asked 60 key people on a Leaders’ Retreat to nominate who should preach […]
Pastoral Visits
From a pastor-friend on the value of pastoral visits being an opportunity to engage in conversation at a deeper level than the weather, the children/grandchildren, etc, work, or church stuff. ‘It is an opportunity to invite people to share their faith, tell their stories, and feel again the touch of God in the encounter. If […]
Board-rooms
Dorothy L.ayers, August 1940, in a letter to Donald Mackinnon: “The Church is uncommonly vocal about the subject of bedrooms and so singularly silent on the subject of board-rooms.” I think I got this from the biography written by Barbara Reynolds. She got involved with a BBC committee about religious broadcasting. After one meeting she […]
Ministry Supervision
SAMPLE SUPERVISION PROGRAMME MARTIN LUTHER SupervisorBenedict Frequency: Monthly Cost: ?? per session. Up to 2 hours. Process: See expectations set out below and in the pages that follow. Venue: Supervisees will prepare to present, within a confidential environment, specific issues from their life and ministry. As a basis for the session, they will present a […]
Ministry Reviews
“How Are You Going? Who Knows?” (by Alan Niven) INTRODUCTION We will explore the theological and pastoral background of ministry appraisals or reviews. In the complex mix of faith, personality, ministry and culture it is often extremely difficult to develop a “sober estimate” of our ability or to come up with a reasonable response to […]
Ethics for Pastoral Leaders
REDUCING VULNERABILITY TO ETHICS CODE VIOLATIONS: AN ‘AT-RISK’ TEST FOR PASTORAL LEADERS/CARERS A boundary violation is an action by one person that violates, (crosses over without permission), the limits and the rightful territory of another person. A boundary violation violates a person not a rule. The sexualising of pastoral or counselling relationships and the creation […]
Dancing with a New Pastor
A talk by Darren Cronshaw for a church preparing for a new pastor, May 2009 -Beyond employment arrangements … a dance rather than a contract Thanks & intro. One of the privileges of my role is seeing what God is doing around the state. Good on you. Privilege come & share with you today, especially […]
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