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Successful Parish Leadership

1990
Successful Parish Leadership

Author: Robert Duch

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 1556123531

Category: Religion

Page: 240

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Collaborative Parish Leadership

2016-12-27
Collaborative Parish Leadership

Author: William A. Clark

Publisher: Lexington Books

ISBN: 9781498533690

Category: Religion

Page: 248

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Collaborative Parish Leadership draws on the experience, strengths, challenges, and insights of the long-term pastoral-academic partnerships out of which it has grown. These include “Project INSPIRE,” a pastoral team-formation project sponsored by Loyola University and the Archdiocese of Chicago and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc., as part of its Sustaining Pastoral Excellence initiative. Another partner initiative is the international pastoral minister exchange “Crossing Over,” involving several Catholic dioceses in northwest Germany and based at Ruhr Universität, Bochum. Authors of these essays have also been involved in Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership, the Congregational Studies Team’s Engaged Scholars fellowship (both also Lilly Endowment funded projects), and other projects. Collaborative Parish Leadership employs practical-theological methods, rooted in pastoral experience and integrated with scholarly reflection. Opening essays deal with the current situation of U.S. parishes, the parish consultancy model of Project INSPIRE, and a case study of several parishes that benefited from the project. The following chapters present comparative case studies of collaborative leadership in various settings: multicultural parishes in different parts of the U.S., parish clusters consolidating into single parishes using very different processes, and parishes in Chicago and Mexico City meeting similar urban challenges. Three authors associated with CrossingOver and its participating dioceses assess the general state of parish reorganization in Germany, and the potential of the unique approach to team leadership taken in the French archdiocese of Poitiers. The final chapters reflect on the theology of parish leadership from pastoral and systematic perspectives, and on the future needs and possibilities of collaborative approaches. Collaborative Parish Leadership engages and challenges academic and pastoral leaders in diverse social and ecclesial situations, suggests multiple models for cultivating collaboration, builds connections between collaborative action and theological development.

Patterns of Parish Leadership

1988
Patterns of Parish Leadership

Author: Dean R. Hoge

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 155612208X

Category: Religion

Page: 220

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Patterns of Parish Leadership is a call to leadership on the part of all those who care for the future of ministry and missions.

Servant Leadership Models for Your Parish

2010
Servant Leadership Models for Your Parish

Author: Dan R. Ebener

Publisher: Paulist Press

ISBN: 9780809146536

Category: Religion

Page: 289

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Servant Leadership Models for Your Parish explores the practice of servant leadership in a church context. It presents seven behaviors practiced by leaders and members in high-performing parishes and provides real-life examples of these practices. The unique contribution of this work to the national discussion about parish life and leadership is its description of servant leadership and its explanation of how it works in a parish. This work suggests that parish life can be viewed in light of business principles such as the organizational behaviors of leaders and members in a Christian parish, and religious teaching, particularly the message of Jesus, who taught leaders to be servants and members to be disciples. Intended for pastors and parish leaders, pastoral associates and deacons, parish staff and lay members of parishes who are interested in leadership, it is sure to be indispensable reading for anyone who is interested in changing or improving the leadership, the activities, and the culture of their parish. +

Catholic Parishes of the 21st Century

2017-01-02
Catholic Parishes of the 21st Century

Author: Charles E. Zech

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780190645175

Category: Religion

Page: 144

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A seminal moment in the study of U.S. Catholic parish life came in the 1980s with the publication of a series of reports from the ground-breaking Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life. These reports are now badly outdated, as Catholic dioceses grapple with new challenges that didn't exist in the 80s. Topics that were not considered then, like greater Catholic mobility, increased cultural diversity, and structural re-organization as well as the rise of lay leadership, have attained new significance. This timely book, based on more than a decade of research, provides an in-depth portrait and analysis of the current state of parish life and leadership. Unique in the scope of the research and the timeliness of its findings, the book critically examines the current state of parish life. The authors draw on data from national polls of Catholics, national surveys of parishes, and thousands of in-pew surveys which explore parishioners' needs, experiences, and satisfaction with parish life in the twenty-first century. The book provides a unique 360-degree view of parish life from the perspective of pastors, parish staff, parishioners, as well as the larger Catholic population.

Good News Parish Leadership

2008
Good News Parish Leadership

Author: Michael L. Papesh

Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications

ISBN: 1585957054

Category: Christian leadership

Page: 284

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For many Catholics today, the leaders described above don't exist. For just as many, "parish leadership" does not equal "good news." But Father Michael Papesh believes it certainly CAN, and here he offers guidelines, tools, and ideas for making it happen. By sharing pastoral leadership and structuring power distribution, he says a parish can enjoy, be, mirror, proclaim, and bring to the world the transforming goodness of God. And thus he offers a "whole system" model for pastoral leadership that is theologically grounded in the hospitality of God as revealed through the ministry of Jesus.

The Catholic Parish

2004
The Catholic Parish

Author: Robert J. Hater

Publisher: Paulist Press

ISBN: 0809142813

Category: Religion

Page: 272

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"The Catholic Parish is a book intended for those interested in making their parish a more faith-filled community. To help them accomplish this goal, it blends real-life stories, pastoral experiences, church directives, theological conclusions, managerial perspectives, and pastoral suggestions into a holistic approach that addresses the complex challenges facing parishes. Robert Hater provides a roadmap that will guide parishes through an examination and renewal of pastoral ministry relevant to today's world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Luke 10 Leadership

2020
Luke 10 Leadership

Author: Dave Heney

Publisher:

ISBN: 1594719470

Category: Religion

Page: 0

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In Luke 10 Leadership, Fr. Dave Heney of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles shares his four-step, bible-based leadership plan, which he says is crucial for effective parish ministry. Heney builds on four simple directives from Jesus found in Luke's gospel and shows you how to build trusting relationships, embrace the culture of your parish, tend to the wounded, and speak the Good News in ways that people can understand. He offers practical tips based on more than four decades in ministry so that you will have the confidence and skills you need to serve as Jesus served.

SCM Studyguide: Church Leadership

2019-04-30
SCM Studyguide: Church Leadership

Author: Jon Coutts

Publisher: SCM Press

ISBN: 9780334057789

Category: Religion

Page: 150

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It is increasingly being acknowledged that current generation of church leaders are inundated with well-intentioned but nonetheless economically-defined leadership measures and strategies which threaten to corrupt the basic thrust of ministry and pervert the common life known as church. Reflecting theologically on the nature of leadership at the same time as considering the reality of its practicalities, this Study Guide seeks to call it back to theological essentials, locate it in the unique context of the Church, and then re-address modern pressures and needs from within a decidedly Christian framework. Resisting the urge to instruct with a more polemical voice, the SCM Studyguide to Church Leadership will encourage ordinands and trainee church leaders to reassess modern pressures and priorities and to re-orient creatively around the callings, giftings, and approaches that are suitable to Christ and particular to the Church.

Creative Church Leadership

2004
Creative Church Leadership

Author: John Adair

Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

ISBN: 1853115029

Category: Religion

Page: 296

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Following "Management and Ministry" and "Leading Managing, Ministering", this third MODEM handbook explores an issue at the very heart of the Church - how can an ancient institution with so many encumbrances remain a living sign of the Kingdom of God?