Category Archives: Senior Pastor

25. Church Board Chair — Pastoral Advocate

What role does a church board chair play in ensuring that church employees, particularly pastoral leaders, receive good care? Is it appropriate for a chairperson to advocate for pastoral employees and if so, on what basis and for what kinds … (read the rest)

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20. Lead Pastor as Church Board Chair — Good Idea??

A pastor recently indicated that he served as the chair of his church’s board of directors. This conversation raised again for me this question — is it a good idea for a lead pastor to chair the church board?

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Welcome

Yes, it's time! For too long church board chairs have laboured without much help or many resources. Struggling valiantly chairs work diligently, but often feel overwhelmed by complexity, adversarial relationships, uncertain expectations, and the lack of a road map. Yet, you do this work because you believe in the mission of Christ's church. Recent developments in non-profit governance continue to influence how church board's understand their role, particularly within larger church settings. Whether it is the Carver "Policy Governance" model, or another paradigm, the chair's role also is being re-conceived and re-positioned within church leadership structures. In this website I seek to provide a forum for introducing, evaluating, and biblically situating such developments and also providing some resources so that you as a church board chair can find your bearings in all of these matters.
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9. Carver, Governance, Policy and Local Church Governance — Can the Pastor handle it?

One of the key principles embedded in Policy Governance is that the board holds one person accountable for achieving the institutional ends — the Chief Executive Officer. For the CEO this is double-edged sword because on the one hand it … (read the rest)

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