Tomorrow morning, the pastor of Lakeview Baptist (our home church) will resign to take a church in another part of our state. He’s had a fairly autocratic style and I am concerned about how the church will respond in his absence. My hope is that some of our really good leaders will step up to the plate and see this as an exciting opportunity for change.
I’m agitating for an intentional interim, but face an uphill battle. It is a new concept in this area (only two churches in our association have gone through it, one of them is Susan Song) and some of the congregation will want to move as rapidly as possible to find another pastor.
Complicating matters is that our by-laws state that a Pastor Search Committee must be formed within 60 days of the previous pastor’s resignation. That kind of time line is incompatible with the Intentional Interim ministry.
Please pray for us as you are able…
2 comments:
Having a search committee formed isn't necessarily at cross purposes with intentional interim ministry. If the transition team is structured to include all of the search committee plus others it can still work.
In fact, there are some distinct advantages to building the transition team around the search committee. The disadvantage is you often end up with a very large transition team.
The challenge is to help the search committee see that the work of the transition team is laying the groundwork for them to do their job more effectively.
This is a very helpful comment. Our by-laws state that the search committee must be comprised of nine people, so the Transition Team would have to be around twelve. That's large, but not unworkable.
Thanks.
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