Transforming Church Boards into Communities

Charles M. Olsen

doi:10.5771/9781566996815

Transforming Church Boards into Communities

Published 1995

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doi.org/10.5771/9781566996815
ISBN print: 978-1-56699-148-3
ISBN online: 978-1-56699-681-5
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Abstract

Discover inspiring, practical ways your board can make its meetings become opportunities for deepening faith, developing leadership, and church renewal. Research included interviews with lay leaders; clergy; and seminary, judicatory, and denominational staff from mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish, and Evangelical Christian faith traditions.

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Preface
1–46 PART l: The Heart of the Matter: Transforming and Inspiring Church Boards 1–46
- CHAPTER 1: Simple Elegance: The Spirit of a Board as "Worshipful Work"
- CHAPTER 2: Creeping Cultures:The Spirits of the Agenda of Board Meetings
47–110 PART 2: The Sum of Its Parts:Four Trans/ orming Practicesfor the Agenda of Meetings 47–110
111–180 PART 3: An Open Letter to Board and Council Members 111–180
181–181 APPENDIX 1: Sample Meeting Agenda First Presbyterian Church, Brandon, Florida 181–181
182–185 APPENDIX 2: Board Culture Indicators 182–185
186–186 APPENDIX 3: Identifying Natural Leadership-Set Apart Lay Leaders Project 186–186
187–189 NOTES 187–189
190–190 BIBLIOGRAPHY 190–190

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