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So Much Better: How Thousands of Pastors Help Each Other Thrive
Meant to both inspire and inform pastoral leaders, So Much Better examines the impact of peer group participation on pastoral leaders, their families, and ministries.
This book goes beyond numbers and data by breathing life into the statistical bones. At this book's heart are seven peer group models including stories and examples from participants, families, and church members. Also featured is information about peer group recruitment, leadership, content, and structure, and practical advice about the cost, sustainability, and evaluation of peer groups.
So Much Better can change the way you think about and perform your ministry and lead you to a life that is-- well, so much better.
From The Columbia Partnership (TCP) Leadership Series
This book goes beyond numbers and data by breathing life into the statistical bones. At this book's heart are seven peer group models including stories and examples from participants, families, and church members. Also featured is information about peer group recruitment, leadership, content, and structure, and practical advice about the cost, sustainability, and evaluation of peer groups.
So Much Better can change the way you think about and perform your ministry and lead you to a life that is-- well, so much better.
From The Columbia Partnership (TCP) Leadership Series
210 pages, Paperback
First published January 31, 2013
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February 27, 2016
Ministry is often seen as a lonely profession. We often find ourselves isolated and overly busy. We can lack in having communities of support. Many of us don't attend to continuing education either. In So Much Better, we find examples of effective peer learning experiences. These emerge out of programs related in some fashion to The Sustaining Pastoral Excellence (SPE) Peer Learning Project. Much of the book is comprised of case studies from a variety of projects, some denominationally sponsored, some sponsored by seminaries, and others by clergy support networks.
What we learn is that we're all different, and not every model works for everyone. We learn that some do best with denominationally focused groups and others with ecumenical ones. In addition, men and women approach this somewhat differently.
If you're clergy and you've wondered what you might participate in -- check out the book -- especially since the Appendix offers an annotated listing of projects, most of which are related to the SPE and funded by (though not true of all) Lilly.
My only disappointment is that as a member of the Academy of Parish Clergy, we're not present in the book. That's not the book's fault -- it's ours.
What we learn is that we're all different, and not every model works for everyone. We learn that some do best with denominationally focused groups and others with ecumenical ones. In addition, men and women approach this somewhat differently.
If you're clergy and you've wondered what you might participate in -- check out the book -- especially since the Appendix offers an annotated listing of projects, most of which are related to the SPE and funded by (though not true of all) Lilly.
My only disappointment is that as a member of the Academy of Parish Clergy, we're not present in the book. That's not the book's fault -- it's ours.
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