Consultancy Skills for Mission and Ministry
Consultancy Skills for Mission and Ministry

Author: David Dadswell

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2013-01-08

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0334048621

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Consultancy is increasingly being used to support mission and to help church leaders and workers in the challenges they face in their work. Helping churches and workers understand their situation and develop effective strategies demands skilful consultants who can handle issues of context and theology, the characteristics of voluntary sector organisations, and mission in a post-modern world. This guide to being a church consultant offers rigorous, practical consultancy theory and tools as well as pointing to a rich range of methods and models for further investigation. By integrating the insights of practical theory, organizational studies, the social sciences and a range of helping skills, consultants will be able to support those who are leading change in churches in processes which are more explicit and carefully thought through than is often the case. This book encourages consultants to develop their own model and practice built on a healthy cycle of sound theory, evaluated practice and thoughtful feedback.

Multi-Congregational Ministry
Multi-Congregational Ministry

Author: Malcolm Grundy

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1848257910

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Local church life is changing radically and patterns of clergy training and deployment with it. Multi-congregational groupings are increasingly the norm with fewer stipendiary clergy and greater reliance on self-supporting and lay ministry. Meanwhile some aspects of priestly ministry are being carried out by specialist practitioners such as missioners working across a number of parishes. All of this raises questions about how we understand, prepare for and practice ministry and leadership in the church today. As ministry increasingly becomes the responsibility of the local congregation and priesthood more about supervision, this key book explores the theology of such a model and how it is beginning to work in practice, drawing insights gained from rural ministry which has pioneered advances in multi-congregation ministry settings.

Managing Religion: The Management of Christian Religious and Faith-Based Organizations
Managing Religion: The Management of Christian Religious and Faith-Based Organizations

Author: Malcolm Torry

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1137394668

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This two-volume work explores the management of religious and faith-based organizations. Each chapter offers a discussion of the earliest Christian organizations based on New Testament evidence; a study of managing faith-based organizations; and an exploration of secular management theory in relation to the management of faith-based organizations.

Enriching Ministry
Enriching Ministry

Author: Michael Paterson

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2014-03-27

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0334049563

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Enriching Ministry offers a more detailed and wide-ranging overview of pastoral supervision and its relationship to other disciplines and fields of study. It describes an approach to supervision which is theologically rich, psychologically informed, contextually sensitive and praxis based. It is intended for those seeking support for their own ministries as well as for those who supervise in the areas of initial and continuing ministerial formation; healthcare; executive coaching, spiritual direction. The final chapters consider the professional development and training of supervisors. This book is aimed at those in local ministry seeking training in supervision in the UK [training incumbents; team rectors; superintendents etc.], healthcare chaplains who facilitate reflective practice or who offer in-house supervision [a requirement for UK based Band 6+ jobs]; spiritual directors for whom there is not as yet any unified approach to/training for pastoral supervision, theological educators trying to meet the requirements of supervised placements, Supervision Practitioners, supervision training providers, those in ministry seeking supervision, bishops and church leaders looking for ways of getting beyond appraisal to non-managerial ministerial and vocational reflection.

Fostering Leadership Skills in Ministry
Fostering Leadership Skills in Ministry

Author: Jean Marie Hiesberger

Publisher: Liguori Publications

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780764808470

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"As Christians, we aspire to live our lives with jesus Christ as our model. This lifelong process of studying Jesus is especially important for those who are leaders in the Christian Community........" [from back cover]

ThirdWay
ThirdWay

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Publisher:

Published: 2002-05

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.

The Impact of Church Consultancy
The Impact of Church Consultancy

Author: Ian G. Duncum

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-01-14

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1532667957

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This book follows the journey of ten churches who underwent church consultancies, and explores in depth both the consultancy and its outcomes. Pre-consultancy and post-consultancy "snapshots," four to five years apart, of vitality indicators and attendance figures (using National Church Life Survey and other data) are used to compare these with churches that have not undertaken church consultancies. Theologies of church consultancy, church health, and church growth are also developed and examined, intersecting with a wide body of literature, including contemporary ecclesiologies. Consultancy outcomes are examined in detail. This includes interviews with pastors of some of those churches, reflecting on their perceptions of whether and how the church consultancy impacted the health and growth of their church. Conclusions are drawn about the efficacy of church consultancy in influencing the health and growth of churches, as well as contexts for the best use of church consultancy. This is a significant book for denominational leaders, theological lecturers, pastors, and church leaders as they encounter lack of health in churches and seek ways forward for greater health and impact in their local communities.