Transitional ministry
Subtitle: a time of opportunity
By: Molly Dale Smith, editor ; with a foreword by Loren Mead.
Contributors: Smith, Molly Dale.
Publisher: Church Pub., Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780898696226
Subjects: Interim clergy; Change -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Loren Mead; title: Section I: Questions about transitional ministry; title: What is transitional ministry? / Molly Dale Smith; title: What do we do first? / John Keydel; title: What does an interim pastor do? / Nancy Miller; title: Why have a letter of agreement? / Ken Ornell and Molly Dale Smith; title: Why can't things stay the same? / George Martin; title: Why we fight / Terry Foland; title: What is the appreciative inquiry approach to transition? / Rob Voyle; title: How can we make plans now? / Robert Friedrich; title: Section II: Stories of transitional ministry; title: When the environment changes, church changes / Ben Helmer; title: A story of intentional interim work in the United Church of Christ / Ineke Mitchell; title: Being an after pastor / Barry Miller; title: The best-kept secret in the Lutheran Church / Lawrence Hand; title: Section III: Resources; title: Resource 1: approximating terminology equivalents; title: Resource 2: transition process overview chart; title: Resource 3: training for transitional ministry; title: Resource 4 sermon on transition; title: Resource 5: annotated bibliography; title: Resource 6: online resources.