Church Staff Handbook: How to Build an Effective Ministry Team

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Kregel Academic - 221 páginas
This helpful resource provides a blueprint for developing a spiritually strong and effective ministry team in the local church. Westing covers issues of team leadership, staff development, role expectations, goal setting, and hiring procedures. Also included are team projects for more in-depth development. ." . . our churches [will] find great encouragement from Westing's wisdom." --Dr. Clyde B. McDowell

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Managing Upward
115
Need for managing upward
116
Procedure for managing upward
118
Maintaining the Team
123
Dealing with Staff Diseases
125
Staff Codependency
127
Unresolved conflict
129
The Staff Meeting
135

as pastor to the staff
40
Project
41
Teams Must Face Their Problems
45
Potential team problems
48
Project
60
The Functioning of a Team
63
Maintaining a Balanced Team
65
Adding team members
68
Keeping the balance
70
Project
73
What Makes the Glue?
79
The familys feelings of roots
80
The corporate drive for productivity
81
The athletes commonly owned goal
83
The theologians binding issues
84
The marriages common commitment
86
Project
87
Describing Your Mission
93
Advantages of job description
94
Job description ingredients
96
Overcoming dangers of job descriptions
97
Project
100
Job description for staff members
101
Clarifying Your Role Expectations
107
The roleclarification process
108
Facing the risks
109
The facilitators role
110
Staff philosophy
136
Staff meeting agenda
141
Project
144
The Staff Retreat
147
The setting
148
The working agenda
149
Project
152
Hiring New Staff
155
When to add new staff
159
Preparing the church
161
The search committee
168
Searching for candidates
170
Project
172
Conducting the Interview
177
Qualities to look for
179
Pastoral style of leadership
184
Guidelines for candidating
188
Project
190
Financial Equity of the Team
195
Determining equity
198
Project
199
Special considerations
204
Personal finances
206
Philosophy of Ministry
209
Notes
217
Bibliography
219
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