A field guide for leading a local church
Most pastoral books explain why ministry matters or tell you how it went for someone else. This one is operational: how a congregation actually runs, week to week and year to year, with the steps written out and the documents attached. Every chapter teaches one piece of the work, walks through how to do it, tells a real story of how it went at a real church, and then hands you the exact tool to use, linked straight to the Church Resource Hub. The book is the map; the hub is the toolbox.
It is written for the first-time or newly appointed pastor who was handed a church and not much else, and close behind, for Course of Study students, local pastors, second-career pastors, and lay leaders running ministries without training. It assumes you are intelligent and assumes nothing else. United Methodist polity is woven in where it matters, set off in boxed Polity Notes so a reader from any tradition can skip past them without losing the thread.
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