Have You Been Fired? | Burned Out but Unable to Quit? | Minister Looking for a Church? | Church Looking for a Minister? | Fighting for Peaceful Fighting | Networlding verses Networking | Recommended Networlding List
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Have You Been Fired?
Have you been fired as a minister? Thinking of quitting? Are you willing to talk? I'm willing to listen. Click here to email me your telephone number. I will gladly pay for the call.
Did you know that Safety Net, a ministry for hurting ministers, says that half of the ministers entering ministry will not be in ministry within seven years of starting their ministry? Christians are available to help; Christian who do care, who do understand, and who have risen to serve beyond the ugliness of church politics and religious abuse.
A resource you may find helpful is Safety Net or Higher Ground. The Higher Ground site has a lot of resources for different areas of need. Feel free to email me or email Silas. His email is on the Higher Ground link. Tell Silas I sent you.
Burned Out
Are you a burned out minister with no place to go and too invested to quit? Do you need a break but can't get loose? Are you bombarded by people while you feel so lonely and isolated that tears come to your eyes by just reading this question? Did you resolve never to give up and then give out because all your strength was spent? Do you believe you are so low in the valley that you are beyond God's reach? Email me for three free audio recordings. Then decide if you want to talk. Click here to email me a request for free material.
Are You a Minister Looking for a Church? Are You A Church Looking for a Minister?
Some jobs are not advertising but are looking just as some ministers are open to but not actively looking for a move. Email me for an appointment to talk if you would like to be on my list of ministers who are willing to hear from certain ministry challenges but are not actively seeking a change. I do not recommend ministers without qualification. So, churches know that what I pass onto them is an effort to find helpful matches rather than simply filling a job. Email me if you are a church interested in my list of ministers who may be open to conversation.
Click on Harding University for the list of compiled possibilities as well as on Abilene Christian University. Click here to purchase Charles Siburt's 259 page Minister Search Packet for my cost of $55, and I will pay the postage. You can freely make as many copies as you desire from the original packet. Click here for part 1 of the Charles Siburt audio files on minister transition. Click here for part 2.
Fighting for Peaceful Fighting by Randy Willingham
Read my doctoral thesis on church conflict that I was writing when I got fired. The project component of the thesis included an experience of being re-hired and completing a seminar for the church on how to deal more effectively with conflict. The small town of one thousand people was the home community to three ministers who had been fired from that small church. Six of the previous seven ministers had been fired. We learned that the key to facing conflict is to start a new conflict about how we have conflict.
Networlding vs. Networking
A distinction exists between networlding and networking. Networking often reaches beyond political sensitivity to being politically driven. People are often used to accomplish a task for one's own personal success. Networlding, in contrast, is focused upon interdependence with people of shared values and core priorities primarily because of those shared values and priorities. The distinction is much more than semantics and I recommend Melissa Giovagnoli and Jocelyn Carter-Miller's book Networlding. From the perspective of networlding, rather than networking, I offer the following persons as people who seem to share the same core values I hold.
Recommended Networlding List
Churchmen & Church Consultants
Dr. Charles Siburt
Charles is a teacher, friend, mentor, and coach to me. He is the head of the Doctor of Ministry program at Abilene Christian University and the Vice President for Church Relations. You can go to his profile by clicking on his name. He can be reached at siburt@bible.acu.edu or you can contact his office at (325) 674-3732. If you cannot get me for work with a church and you can get Charles Siburt you will do well! Click to see his consulting offerings.
Dr. Flavil Yeakley
Flavil is the director of the Center for Church Growth at Harding University and has significant statistical research background. He is an expert on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and is a specialist in communication. He does church growth assessments and often designs the surveys specifically for the churches he serves. He has written, among other works, Why Churches Grow and Church Leadership and Organization: A Doctrinal and Practical Study of the Leadership Role of Elders (at one time the most popular book on leadership in the Churches of Christ and it has an excellent chapter on the problems of authoritarian leadership). You can email Flavil by clicking on his name above or call him at (501) 279-2019.
Family Ministry, Workshops, and Special Speakers
Dr. Mike Ireland
Mike is a colleague who would be great for speaking on topics related to the family. He lives what he preaches, and he preaches very well! Mike teaches Christian Home, among other classes, at Harding University, and he has served a number of years as a minister. He serves as the minister for the Westside Church of Christ in Searcy, Arkansas. You can send him an email message by clicking on his name above or call him at (501) 279-4556.
Dr. Alan Pogue
Alan does family and parenting seminars and has a model for parenting that he has presented in my Christian Home class. He is a practicing family and education minister at the Levy Church of Christ in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is an effective member of a multi-staff ministry team and has spoken at the Harding lectureship, along with Hugh Hale and Garry Neal, about effective ministry staff relationships. You can email Alan by clicking on his name above or reach him at (501) 753-4860.
Dr. Dale W. Manor
"The Bible and Archaeology" is a weekend seminar by a great archaeologist that can be used as an outreach to the community. Dale has completed several excavations at biblical sites including work as the field director for the Tell Beth-shemesh excavation in Israel. He has published material on archaeology in the Anchor Bible Dictionary, Oxford Encyclopedia of Archeology in the Near East, and Eerdman's Dictionary of the Bible. He is often referred to as Harding's own "Indiana Jones." Dale has 25 years of experience as a minister and still preaches for a church in Melbourne, Arkansas. You can go to Dale's web page by clicking on his name above. You can click here to email Dale or reach him at (501) 279-4456.
John Grant
John is an equipping minister at the College Hills Church of Christ in Lebanon, Tennessee. He has focused considerable ministry effort on small groups. He is well versed in the purpose-driven church model and is very good at seeing the conflicting messages within a church that may get that church stuck as it seeks to reach out to its community. You can go to his blog site by clicking on his name above. He can also be reached at jgrant@collegehills.org or (614) 444-9502.
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