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How and when should you add to your church staff? How much should you pay your staff? How do you motivate and keep great staff members? These are just some of the questions we discuss here in our Personnel & Staffing area. Have a staffing question? Ask it in our staffing forum.
Does your staff get along with each other? Are there certain staff members that kinda rub you the wrong way? Gary Hardin has a great article over at Lifeway.com featuring some suggestions on how to deal with different staff personality types. He talks about the 'pushy' staffer, the 'lazy' staffer, the 'cheery' staffer, the 'fuzzy' staffer, and the 'wishy-washy' staffer. Do you have any of these on your staff? And (maybe more importantly), are YOU any of these staff members?!
How to Deal with Difficult Staff
Roger Olson has a very interesting take on church search committees, especially when they hired his pastor away from his church. Roger writes, "Recently, our church was invaded by a group of thieves. Well, not exactly, but that’s how it felt to us. We only discovered the deed later when our beloved pastor announced her resignation. The group of thieves were a pastoral search committee from another state. They infiltrated our Sunday morning worship service and conspired to persuade our pastor to move to their church..."
Church Visited by Group of Thieves
Turning Your Staff Into Multipliers
"If we catch you doing ministry, you may lose your job." That's what one pastor tells the paid church staff. I was stunned until I heard the reasoning behind such a warning. It's all about multiplying ministry. At a "Me to We" training at Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, I met an incredible couple, Pastor Vernon Armitage and his wife, Charlene. Vernon and Charlene have been at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in Liberty, Missouri, for 38 years. The church has grown from around 100 to more than 4,000, and it's one of the best examples of an equipping church in the country.
Sticky Pastoral Successions And How To Make Them Better
When the only pastor an entire generation at a church has known leaves, there’s no set model for ensuring a smooth transition, experts say. The right way to do it at one time in a church’s history may be wrong at another time. And orchestrating a succession at a megachurch is much different than easing into one in a smaller community.
Pastor Resigns: “I Was Wrong”
Ronald Keener writes, "No pastor takes on leading a congregation with the thought that, five years later, he may tearfully be giving an apology for his “arrogance” and hurtful treatment of members — never thinking that he might repeatedly tell the church on his last Sunday before them that “I was wrong.”
Help… My Search Committee Lied to Me!
The premise of a recent article posted over at Lifeway.com is "Pastor search committees often lie to potential pastors. Search committees are not intentionally deceitful, but sometimes they just don’t tell all the truth. They love their church and that love tends to cloud their vision." This, of course, begs the questions, how can a pastor see the truth before he takes the church and what is he to do when he gets to the church and finds out he’s been duped?
Reasons Pastors and Churches “Divorce”
Dr. Jim West has an interesting piece at his blog on the reasons why pastors and churches 'divorce'. I like pieces like this that make me think a little bit. Hopefully it will help you get the wheels turning today as well. I'd love to hear what you think? Have you ever been 'divorced'?
The Vote: 49 to 4… Pastor, You’re Outta Here! Pastor Responds: “Not So Fast…”
Two years after the Rev. Roy C. Allen took a job he said he didn’t want in the first place, he was fired. Twice, if you ask some people. The second time, for those who are counting, his employment status was decided in a courthouse. “I didn’t want to come. This church had a reputation … The pastor before me, they ran him away, too," Allen said. “But it wasn’t my decision. It was God’s." Firing Allen has proved a tumultuous journey for not only the fallen pastor but also the entire congregation...
Pastors In Transition: Why Clergy Leave Local Church Ministry
Why do pastors leave the ministry? Several common issues emerge from the research of Dean Hoge and Jacqueline Wenger: preference for another form of ministry, the need to care for children or family, conflict in the congregation, conflict with denominational leaders, burnout or discouragement, sexual misconduct, and divorce or marital problems. Of these factors, which form the basis for the central chapters of Pastors in Transition, two are especially important: conflict and a preference for specialized ministry. A close third is the experience of burnout, discouragement, stress and overwork. As the authors explore these factors, they provide significant insights into what can be done to help people stay in ministry.
Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
The bestselling author of "The Message" challenges believers to read the Scriptures on their own terms, as God's revelation, and to live them as they read them.
Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders
Based on his extensive experience as coach and mentor to many thousands of Christian leaders across a broad spectrum of ministry settings, Reggie McNeal helps spiritual leaders understand that they will self-select into or out of greatness.
I'm Todd Rhoades... the MMI guy. I'm also on the team at Leadership Network (although that doesn't mean that they endorse everything I write here). In my past life, I was the founder and developer of a website named ChurchStaffing.com.
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