Entering Wonderland

This handbook helps coach both experienced and new pastors to enter a new congregation effectively. Drawing from organizational systems leadership material in religious and secular worlds, it offers nearly fifty tips and tools designed to help new pastors analyze their congregation's system and then to inspire leaders within the congregation to affect positive change. Using imagery from Alice in Wonderland to clarify various archetypal roles within the church community, Harris provides concrete suggestions for facilitating communication and dealing with difficult behaviors within the congregation. He provides a coaching approach to ministry, in which the pastor reframes issues and asks provocative questions--a powerful strategy to maximize a new pastor's chances for success. (Back cover).

Year

2014

Language

English

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Editions

5

Pages

234

ISBN

9781566997591

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