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88. Principles for Selecting a Model of Church Board Governance (#2): Advancing the Mission
The first question a church board chair may want to consider in discerning a model of Church Board Governance would be: what does your church board’s governance need to achieve in order for the mission of the church to advance? … (read the rest)
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Tagged church board governance and mission achievement, models of church board governance
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87. Principles for Choosing a Model of Church Board Governance (#1)
When church board members asked you to serve as their chair and facilitator, you stepped into an existing model of church board governance. It may not have very clear definition and the board members individually may have only a modest … (read the rest)
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86. “Indifference” — an Important Attitude Within a Church Board and Chair
Charles Olsen in his chapter on discernment (Transforming Church Boards into Communities of Spiritual Leaders, pages 95-97) offers the outline of a process that will enable a church board to engage “the practice of faithful listening.” As part of … (read the rest)
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85. Book Review # 6: “Transforming Church Boards into Communities of Spiritual Leaders” by Charles Olsen (Alban Institute, 2001).
Charles Olsen writes as a seasoned “church renewalist” who has a special passion to enable church boards understand themselves as spiritual communities who are “inspirational to the congregations they lead” (xvi). He speaks from a wealth of research directed particularly … (read the rest)
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Tagged Charlers Olsen Transforming Church Boards, church board members as spiritual leaders, church boards as spiritual communities, transforming church boards
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84. The Challenge of “Friendship” for a Church Board Chair
In a recent column on “Governance and Sustainability” in the National Post (July 5,2011) Shaun Francis and John Kelleher reflect on lessons learned ten years after the collapse of Enron Corp. According to Shaun and Kelleher, one of the findings … (read the rest)
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Tagged friendship in a church board setting, real distance and real tensions in a church board setting
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