Powers suggests that leaders can use age, compatibility, and interests to divide large congregations into manageable units for effective administration. The author also highlights some of the roles that different categories of church members have in various programs within their organisations and offers worksheets that can allow individuals to plan and execute their mandates.
The fourth chapter presents a discussion on the role of church ministers in leading various teams in their organisations. As Dale rightly puts it, effective church leaders understand the importance of establishing one-to-one relationships with their followers despite the administrative challenges that exist in leading congregations. The author attributes such difficulties in leading the churches to the fact that the churches are not-for-profit organisations.
Dale also presents a discussion on how church leaders can minister through teams and committees in their institutions. The author also observes the essential roles that volunteers play in churches and the rewards that they receive for their efforts. Most importantly, Dale notes that problem-solving, in the church, requires skilled management because teams of volunteers are only held together by trust.
Dale presents some of the guidelines that can assist church leaders in conducting decision- making meetings, and the author asserts the importance of supervision in the church. Another important issue discussed in the fourth chapter is in relation to the strategies that church leaders can use to handle difficult people who are either passive or aggressive controllers. The author starts by suggesting that churches should consider and adopt proper administrative guidelines before employing personnel.
Among the desired characteristics of the personnel committee members is that they must be sensitive, open to learning, and spiritually mature. The author further asserts the importance of personnel policies in churches to prevent legal and organisational problems while enhancing productivity. Church leaders should present the personnel policy manuals before their members to ensure that everyone understands its use Caldwell, The author provides guidelines on how leaders can develop staffing plans that are relevant to the unique needs of churches and their employees.
The characteristics of effective teams, according to Caldwell , include responsible freedom, appreciation, cooperation, and understanding. The author also provides criteria for evaluating the performance of various employees according to their job descriptions. Powers focuses discussion on church office administration in the sixth chapter of the book.
Although employees are crucial in the functioning of the church, the office is critical because it serves as the nerve centre and offers support systems for the workers and leaders. Powers highlights the five major considerations that the church leaders should focus on when establishing church offices as work systems, equipment, facilities, environment, and location.
The author further provides instructions for developing or installing the five considerations. Additionally, the author points out that church leaders must also consider issues such as available financial resources, facilities, and the sizes of their congregations to ensure that their offices offer centralised support services.
The chapter presents detailed guidelines on various issues such as communication, minute-taking, record keeping, and auditing, among others. The seventh chapter in Church Administration Handbook discusses financial procedures and policies that church leaders must consider for effective functioning of their organisations.
As Caldwell points out, people and money are two crucial resources that are in limited supply for churches, which necessitates the prudent usage of such resources to avoid incurring increased utility charges, personnel costs, and unrealistic debts.
The first phase in ensuring effective financial management in churches is training a committee to oversee the financial matters. The second stage is preparing the budget and presenting it to the church for approval, and the author provides procedures that can assist the church leaders in ensuring that their budgets are approved. Furthermore, Caldwell asserts the importance of accounting for all the monies received in the church and monitoring the spending to ensure fiduciary responsibility.
The last stage in the financial procedures is auditing to confirm whether the money has been used according to plan. The eighth chapter presented by Bob I. Johnson focuses on planning and budgeting, and the author asserts the importance of planning in sustaining the activities of churches regardless of their sizes. Most significantly, Johnson suggests that the plans should enable churches to react effectively to available opportunities that could arise after the planning phase is completed. As such, the author raises an important point that planning and budgeting, especially in contemporary churches, should be flexible instead of being static as it is in the traditional sense.
Johnson also argues that church leaders should understand the unique nature of their organisations to ensure that they succeed in the two critical functions.
The author provides some of fundamental principles and guidelines that inform the planning process in contemporary religious institutions.
Furthermore, Johnson offers guidelines on how the church leaders can budget efficiently with the limited resources at their disposal. The author contends that planning and budgeting should be inclusive of processes that factor in inputs from other church members. The ninth chapter of the book discusses the important considerations during the designing and management of church facilities.
Caldwell argues that the church facilities should be visible and accessible to its members, and the author suggests that churches must engage in demographic studies, growth trends, and feasibility studies to determine the most appropriate purposes and locations of their facilities.
Additionally, the author insists that churches must secure adequate space for their buildings, develop suitable plans, survey their program needs, and assess their community needs before starting the construction processes.
Churches should also establish plans for managing their facilities and offer adequate insurance coverage to protect the churches from various liabilities. Furthermore, churches should offer adequate security measures against incidences such as arson, attacks on church members, burglary, and vandalism.
Caldwell points out that churches should maintain updated inventories of all their facilities and equipment to prevent losses due to theft or negligence. The author also provides guidelines for constructing church kitchens and offering catering services to the church members.
Caldwell ends the chapter by providing various templates that various facilities in the church can use in managing their operations.
As Dale points out in the tenth chapter of the book, special congregational events create opportunities for the church leaders to demonstrate their management skills. Although various events can be regarded as special to the people involved, the author focuses his attention on renewal or revival events, funerals, and weddings.
Dale asserts the importance of adequate planning by the church ministers before they conduct any of the three special events. Most importantly, the author points out that the unique requirements of each event that the church ministers should acquaint himself or herself with to be effective in their work.
For instance, Dale highlights some of the legal considerations that could result in illegal marriages, as well as the approaches that the church leaders should adopt when conducting funerals. The eleventh presented by Bruce Powers is vital because it addresses the crucial roles that church publications have in ensuring effective communication between the church ministers and their congregants. As such, enhancing the effectiveness and quality of church publications is vital furthering the Christian ministry, and the author offers six considerations that are useful in producing quality publications in the church.
Additionally, the author presents various administrative guidelines that can assist the church leaders in planning for their church publications. Most importantly, Powers presents several ideas that can help in improving the quality and layout of church publications to increase readership among the congregations. Church leaders and congregations can no longer afford to ignore the legal responsibilities that churches have in current times due to the increasing legal accountability and litigation faced by not-for-profit organisations.
Caldwell dedicates the twelfth chapter of the book to address some of the legal matters that contemporary churches face, although the author is quick to disqualify himself from giving legal advice as it is in the domain of local attorneys.
The author suggests that the churches should learn to identify the appropriate times to seek legal assistance from competent and reliable attorneys. The churches may also require legal assistance in specific cases such as incorporation, contracts, administering wills and estates, employment practices, family law, and copyrights, among others.
Legal responsibilities and ethical standards are interrelated and almost inseparable concepts in all contemporary organisations, including the churches. However, many individuals ignore the need for ethical practices among the church ministers due to the misconception that the church leaders automatically reflect moral standards based on the Scriptures.
Judy J. Stamey refutes such assertions in the thirteenth chapter of the book by highlighting the increased attention on the cases of malpractices by the church leaders. To address such leadership challenges in the church, Stamey proposes that church ministers and congregants revert to covenant thinking to guide their work and lives.
Stamey then proceeds to identify some of the instances that could result in ethical dilemmas to the church and its leaders. Among the most significant situations that raise ethical concerns in the church settings include employment laws and personnel issues, termination policies, and financial policies.
The author describes the process of establishing a code of ethics, key elements of such codes, and procedures that could assist the church leaders in developing ethical statements.
Stamey completes the chapter by providing a sample of a code of ethics that the church ministers could use in developing their own. As the size of congregations continue to expand and new needs emerge among church members, church leaders inadvertently face the decision to start new missions or work.
Bob I. Johnson observes, in the fourteenth chapter of the book, that the concepts of new work and missions conjure diverse images among individuals. Additionally, Johnson argues that the new engaging in new mission can help in eliminating traditionalism and racism in the church. Additionally, the author notes that new missions should seek guidance from their parent churches during their early stages to increase their effectiveness in ministering to their congregations.
Johnson discusses the process of constituting new missions and the relationships that the new churches have with sponsoring churches. The fifteenth chapter presented by Powers focuses on the cooperative relationships that churches have with other religious institutions. As Powers points out, churches have guiding policies denominational polity that govern their actions and create their identities regardless of their sizes or locations.
Additionally, the author notes that denominational groups share resources as part of the cooperative interactions in the church to support proclamation, ministry, Christian education, and worship. Powers describes the arrangements in churches to ensure the efficient sharing of resources. The author identifies some of the benefits of cooperation at various levels in the church ministry. The author introduces an important discussion on servant leadership and the need for Christians to emulate Jesus in his leadership by promoting the theology of service.
The author contends that churches have a critical role in preparing Christians to perform their assigned duties by demonstrating the fulfillment that results from serving others. Stamey suggests that Christians should be prepared to receive spiritual gifts to guide them in their service to others and the author proceeds to highlight some of the qualifications for service as well as enlisting and training process for volunteers to serve. Stamey also identifies some of the procedures that can be used in evaluating the volunteers to service and the need to support such individuals in their work.
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