Stan Toler’s Practical Guide for Ministry Transition: How to Navigate Pastoral Change Personally and Professionally
Overview
Am I done here? Do I have something further to offer this congregation? Is it time to seek a leadership position elsewhere? Or is this merely a case of “spring fever?”
Many pastors wrestle with questions like these each year, never sure if the time is right for a pastoral move. Veteran pastor Stan Toler comes alongside the pastor in transition to help assess the reasons for change and to make sure that the decision to move—and the move itself—will go smoothly. Based on decades of pastoral experience, Stan Toler offers wise counsel and timely insight into the issues of leaving your current parish while preparing for your next phase of ministry. Subjects include:
- Assessing your leadership potential
- Assessing your leadership fit
- Reasons to consider a change
- Reasons to consider staying
- Selecting your next ministry setting
- Presenting yourself well in person and in print
- Interviewing
- Negotiating compensation
- Family moving do’s and don’ts
- Establishing your new home
- The first 90 days of a new pastorate
Whether you are just beginning or are a veteran of the ministry, Stan Toler’s Practical Guide for Ministry Transition: How to Navigate Pastoral Change Personally and Professionally is the perfect guide for improving the quality, focus, and effectiveness of your ministry. With the Logos edition of Stan Toler’s Practical Guide for Ministry Transition: How to Navigate Pastoral Change Personally and Professionally, you have easy access to Scripture texts, along with a wealth of other resources in your digital library. Hovering over Scripture references links you instantly to the verse you’re looking for, and with passage guides and a wealth of other tools from Logos, you can get into God’s Word and discover biblical insights on church leadership like never before.
- Offers counsel and insight for transitioning between ministries
- Provides tools for assessing leadership potential
- Includes a step-by-step action plan for the first 90 days of transition
- Discernment: Knowing When to Move
- Perception: Seeing Greener Grass for What It Is
- Potential: Discovering Your Leadership Potential and Ministry Place
- Vision: Understanding the Need for Change
- Perseverance: Staying When You Have an Offer You Can’t Refuse
- Succession: Preparing for the One Who Follows You
- Preparation: Getting Ready for Your Next Ministry Assignment
- Mentoring: Preparing Your Current Congregation for Transition
- Family: Preparing Those You Love for Transition
- Beginning: Leading During the First Ninety Days
- Title: Stan Toler’s Practical Guide for Ministry Transition: How to Navigate Pastoral Change Personally and Professionally
- Author: Stan Toler
- Publisher: Wesleyan Publishing House
- Publication Date: 2010
- Pages: 192