An exercise for a church staff retreat or training day.
 If you lead a church with a staff team the following could be a very useful basis for a staff retreat or training day.
 One of the problems that can develop when staff are appointed to develop particular areas of ministry like youth or children’s ministry is [...]

Chapter Eight:  Leaders and Teams
By Peter Corney
(This is a free chapter from the new book A Passion for Leadership, Insights from Arrow Australia Leadership Team, edited by Peter Corney and Evonne Paddison. Coauthors include: Karl Faase, Stephen Hale, Evonne Paddison, Ian Harper, Sandy Jones, Graham Johnston and Stephen Abbott. It is published here under the [...]

By Peter Corney
The church is a voluntary society, a ‘community of volunteers’, if you like.  Without volunteers almost everything we do would grind to a halt.  All those rosters and committees and leadership of groups and ministries would cease.  Most parachurch organisations live or die on the strength of their volunteer base.
But we live in [...]