Piloting Church: Helping Your Congregation Take Flight - Softcover

Trimble, Cameron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0827231695 ISBN 13: 9780827231696

Publisher: Chalice Press, 2019

Synopsis

Using piloting as an engaging framework for organizational transformation, Trimble addresses the process of planning, executing, and completing a church revitalization project in 10 easy-to-read chapters:
· Decide You Want to Fly
· What Kind of Pilot Will You Be?
· The Fundamentals of Flight
· Your Flight Crew
· Charting Your Course
· Preflight Checklist
· Funding Your Flying Habit
· Managing Comms
· Mayday Moments
· Making a Successful Landing
Trimble is the executive director and CEO of the Center for Progressive Renewal (CPR) and has years of experience helping to start new congregations and revitalize older congregations. Piloting Church reflects her learnings as a congregational consultant and national faith leader. Having worked with twelve denominational partners and their congregations, she believes the Church's best days are ahead.

About this title

About the Author:

Cameron Trimble is the Executive Director and CEO at The Center for Progressive Renewal. Cameron also directs Convergence Network, a multi-denominational network of congregations and leaders in North America. Rev. Trimble is an adjunct professor teaching social innovation in a number of universities in the United States. She is an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ, have served as a pastor of four congregations in the Atlanta area. Her ministry in national and regional church settings has given her a unique perspective on the challenges of cultivating leaders equipped to meet the needs of the future of mainline Protestantism. Her coaching and consulting clients are primarily executive leaders going through dynamic culture transformations. Diversity, she believes, is the source of lasting innovation and the social transformation. In becoming a pilot, Cameron learned many of her leadership lessons through the adventures of the cockpit of her airplane. In her work, she has learned to combine these two passions - pastoring and piloting - to teach the art of leadership in organizational systems.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chalice Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0827231695
• ISBN 13: 9780827231696
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146