From Nashville-
The Rev. Molly Dale Smith has some advice for churches that lose their ministers:
Don’t be in a hurry to find a new one.
Instead, Smith suggests that congregations find an interim minister — someone who can fill in for six to 18 months — while they look for a permanent replacement.
That way a church has time to decide what approach it wants to take with their ministry and find the right preacher to meet its needs rather than ending up in a rebound relationship with the new minister.
“A church may need some time to step back and say, ‘Who are we now?’ ” she said.
Smith, a priest associate at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Nashville, is one of the featured speakers at the annual conference for the Interim Ministry Network, a national organization with about 1,400 members nationwide. The conference, which kicked off Monday, runs through Thursday at the Millennium Maxwell House hotel in Nashville.
More here-
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/DN/20110614/NEWS06/306140020/Interim-Ministry-Network-helps-churches-transition?odyssey=nav%7Chead
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