Practical Church Management

Practical Church Management provides essential information on all aspects of modern church life., both at parish and at diocesan level.

A practical, accessible guide to help church leaders through the steps needed to ensure an effective, accountable, and transparent financial process in a parish.

The remarkable success of the book A Pastor’s Toolbox: Management Skills for Parish Leadership has demonstrated that the demands of time and financial challenges continue to impact the work of today’s parish leaders. The need has become even greater for practical tools to assist in the many aspects of temporal administration, leadership, and church management. This follow-up volume provides all new information, insights, and practical tools that pastors need to handle the complexities of parish management in the twenty-first century. Sixteen contributors from across the country deliver key content that focuses on promoting excellence and best practices in the areas of management, finances, communications, and human resources development. A Pastor’s Toolbox 2 provides: leadership tools for the pastor and his team; help for working with the parish’s pastoral and finance council; intercultural competence and complex pastoring situations; suggestions for time management and effective meetings; human resources, change management, and canon law; tools for parish stewardship, communications, and Catholic schools. The book is an outgrowth of the Toolbox for Pastoral Management, a nationally recognized joint project of Leadership Roundtable and Seton Hall University. Learn more at www.LeadershipRoundtable.org.

A practical handbook on administration in churches and Christian organizations.

As Carl George and Bob Logan well know, this mentality is changing. Studies of growing churches show that the leadership role of the pastor is a key to church vitality. The ideal role of the church-growth pastor is now being described as an "equipper," rather than an "enabler." This implies pastoral initiative in setting goals, obtaining goal ownership from the people, and mobilizing the laity for effective ministry aimed at accomplishing the goals.

Many church leaders struggle with the administrative arm of their church. GOVERNANCE: A CHALLENGE TO SMALL CHURCHES is a practical guide to assist those leaders. The foundation of the content is the findings from ten small Jamaican churches and supported by the work of various authors, personal insights and the experiences of the author. GOVERNANCE: A CHALLENGE TO SMALL CHURCHES provides information on critical areas of leadership, administration, and governance that small churches need to pay attention to. In this engaging book, the author share insights of his experiences in ministry and those gathered from other church leaders. This book is an excellent resource for persons aspiring to lead the church, so they can have a foundation on what is expected. The author also incorporates experiences from his professional career as a Senior Financial Manager.