Churchworks: A well-body book for congregations

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558963782 ISBN 13: 9781558963788

Publisher: Skinner House Books, 1999

Using the human body as a metaphor for the congregation, this accessible and ingenious handbook provides essential advice for growing and sustaining a healthy church, including help for diagnosing and treating the chronic ailments of church life. Covers vital congregational structure and more. This must have church resource offers helpful models for developing congregational bylaws, staff manuals, financial policies and procedures and many other mainstays of church administration. Filled with checklists and dozens of useful tips, such as 20 suggestions for Adult Programs, Tips to keep people coming, Congregational Covenant of good relations, Life cycle of a member and social justice timeline.