A New Beginning for Pastors and Congregations: Building an Excellent Match Upon Your Shared Strengths

by Kennon L. Callahan

This wise and practical guide provides clear insight for both pastors and congregations on how to begin a healthy, productive new pastorate or make a fresh start in an ongoing ministry. Author Kennon L. Callahan, today's most sought-after church consultant, has conferred with thousands of pastors and congregations, helping them discover their strengths and gifts and showing them how to work together in service to their community and mission. Here he offers fresh suggestions on how pastors and congregations can ensure a solid future together, whether they are newly beginning or beginning again.

Genres: Leadership, Church

Hardcover

First published September 24, 1999

Reviews

[Zachary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for class. A classmate of mine is exactly right (you know who you are), he could have said what he needed to say in fewer words. In today's parlance, "this could have been an email."

[Ben Gresik · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't really have much to say about this book other than that it's good and I would recommend it to first time pastors or pastors who feel uncertain about moving to a new congregation. You may not connect with everything in here, but there is lots of helpful advice written in a confident tone from experience that feels very reassuring.

[Alexander Steward · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall a good book which will help guide you through a transition with a new congregation. It would be a great book for a call committee to read before they actually call a new pastor as it would help them get things in place.