Temporary Shepherds: A congregational handbook for Interim Ministry. Rogers S. Nicholson (editor)
Temporary Shepherds: A congregational handbook for Interim Ministry.
“Finally, the intentional Interim Ministry is demystified. Here are answers to the questions we always wanted to ask and were too impatient or too casual about the missional life of the church – to ask. Nicholson and company offer highly readable essays on the substance and the doing of this specialized ministry, and on such issues as transition, separation, grief, conflict, systems analysis, and pastoral ethics. Hundreds of disastrous mismatches of congregations with new pastors might have been avoided had this book been read and taken to heart by the leaders involved – lay and ordained alike.”Gaylord Noyce, Emeritus Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology, Yale University Divinity School.
“This book is just the right resource for leaders in congregations anticipating or going through a pastoral transition, for clergy who want to understand interim ministry better, for anyone who loves the church of Jesus Christ and wants the best possible leadership for its life and mission. With myriad stories taken from their experience with hundreds of churches as interims, the authors help us get the whole picture of the many gifts interim ministry brings to the church. I commend it for your study.” Davida Foy Crabtree, Conference Minister Connecticut Conference, United Church of Christ
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