7 Ways to Develop Leaders for Your Small Church

Leaders, including pastors, are responsible for growing other leaders. For smaller church pastors, it is essential to grow leaders because many smaller churches struggle to find pastors today. More than once, while working with the pastor search committee of a smaller...

How to Launch a Healthy Start for Your New Pastor

Richard Blackburn, a Lombard Peace Center trainer, was a featured speaker at a recent training event for congregational conflict interventionists. “When I look into the history of churches I go into for a conflict intervention, I almost always find they had a...

6 Realities for Your Small Church’s Pastor Search

It is becoming increasingly difficult for smaller churches to find pastors due to a growing number of retiring ministers and a shrinking number of younger ministers willing to serve smaller churches. Therefore, there are at least six realities that pastor search...