Growing by Half: Part-time Pastor, Full-time Church
A collaboration of the Maine Conference UCC and The BTS Center
Keynote Speaker:
Jeffery MacDonald is an award-winning journalist and the author of Thieves in the Temple: The Christian Church and the Selling of the American Soul. He is also the pastor of First Parish Church of Newbury, UCC in Newbury, Massachusetts. The BTS Center awarded Jeff a 2016 Innovation Incubator Compass Grant to support his research on vitality in churches with part-time clergy. Jeff will also facilitate two workshops: Re-imagining Vocation: Embracing What’s Distinct about a Part-time Call and Unleashing Entrepreneurism in Congregations with Part-time Clergy.
Other Presenters:
Facilitator for Workshop:
Evolving from a Community Gathered around a Minister to a Ministering Community.
Also a PechaKucha presenter.
Facilitator for Workshop:
Evolving from a Community Gathered around a Minister to a Ministering Community.
Facilitator for Workshop: Evolving from a Community Gathered around a Minister to a Ministering Community.
Facilitator for Workshop: “Who Are We That We Could Hinder God?” Reading Acts for Spiritual Wisdom in Times of Change.
Facilitator for Workshop:
Paths of the Part-time Pastorate Pilgrimage.
Also a PechaKucha presenter.
Facilitator for Workshop:
Part-time Pastor: A Beautiful Constraint.
Facilitator for Workshop:
Unleashing Entrepreneurism in Congregations with Part-time Clergy.
Facilitator for Workshop:
Unleashing Entrepreneurism in Congregations with Part-time Clergy.
