INTERIMS CAN SHAPE HEALTHY CHURCHES
Churches without pastors face uncertain futures. Congregations feel like they are treading water.
How do we stay afloat?
Where do we look?
How do we make sure we make the right choice?
It is a time filled with
anxiety and hope
.
An Interim pastor can offer a creative possibility for how the congregation can make use of this transition time to encourage their next chapter of ministry to be strong and healthy. An interim pastor is in a better position than anyone to help the congregation both understand and be supportive of good ministry.
This book is designed to assist an interim in leaving the congregation with an intentional plan for a healthy partnership with their new pastor. It offers specific steps that an interim can take to educate the congregation about the stresses and challenge of ministry. The book then provides:
Guidance
for search committees about good criteria to consider
A
healthy approach
to working with the new pastor.
check list
of steps a congregation can take to welcome the new pastor and family
Ways that the leadership can
take the temperature
of the health of the evolving ministry.
This is one of nine volumes that are part of the series supporting the thesis that
Healthy Clergy Make Healthy Congregations
[HCMHC]. Each volume is designed to support clergy in a way that nurtures the spiritual health of the whole congregation. They are offered in the firm belief that God has called people together in congregations and called individuals to the ordained ministry in those congregations. All nine volumes are available on Amazon.com. Those who care about the church are invited to go to the author's Web site
www.smccutchan.com
to view these and other resources designed to support the church.
God calls the church together for a purpose. Healthy clergy enable congregations to listen to God and respond in a healthy manner with a ministry that can feed the spiritual hunger of a fractured world.