'Tis the season for UM pastoral (and congregational) transitions!

Shalom!

I received an email recently with my Lovett Weems newsletter from the Lewis Center for Leadership Development. The subject is pastoral transitions, and both articles look very, very helpful to me! Wish I had been able to use them as a checklist a year plus a few months ago as I prepared for retirement.

http://www.churchleadership.com/leadingideas/issues/2008issues/210508.html

In about half of the transitions of which I was a part the person who followed me could not or would not meet with me. This seemed a bit strange to me, but some follow the "clean slate" theory of change, I suppose.

Shalom!
dave

New for Spring . . . or Summer

Shalom!

Well, it's been a long time! I'm planning to invest more time in this blog, as I have gotten burned out on another site! Of course, with this medium, I have no idea, really, if anyone is reading . . . .

Back to some basics: some suggestions picked up here and there, and comments about life in the church today.

Shalom!
dave