Category Archives: Senior Pastor

131. The Impact of Debt Upon the Ability of Church Boards to Lead.

The church at which I serve as a board member and chair recently celebrated the first anniversary of ministry in a new multi-storey campus. Our congregation is fifteen years old and the building project took about ten years from conception … (read the rest)

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130. How do Church Boards and Pastoral Leaders Really Think and Interact?

I keep a fairly close eye on the search tags that people google, leading them to the churchboardchair.ca website. A good proportion of them reflect challenges that boards and board chairs have in working with pastoral leaders. I am sure … (read the rest)

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129: Developing Productive Church Board Culture — a “People” Project

What is it about non-profit boards and church boards in particular that make them so challenging to lead? Why is it that developing an effective church board seems to be so difficult? I think the essential reason is quite simple … (read the rest)

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127. Values, Board Culture and Good Governance.

The Group of 30 recently published a major report entitled “Toward Effective Governance of Financial Institutions.” The Group of 30 is “a private, nonprofit, international body composed of very senior representatives of the private and public sectors and academia.” Their … (read the rest)

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126. How does the Chairperson Tap into the Knowledge of the Church Board?

Age brings wisdom — or at least it is supposed to according to biblical principles. We know this does not always happen. When a congregation appoints people to a church board, usually they select them because they discern evidence of … (read the rest)

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