African American Church Management Handbook - Softcover

Floyd H. Flake; Elaine McCollins Flake; Edwin C. Reed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817014853 ISBN 13: 9780817014858

Publisher: Judson Pr, 2005

Synopsis

Highly regarded pastor Floyd Flake; his wife, co-pastor, author, Elaine Flake; and church chief financial officer Edwin Reed offer a design based on key needs in the black church, and their experience at one of the nation's most respected and largest black churches, Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral in New York. This unique, detailed, and thorough resource for black churches of any denomination covers virtually all aspects of church management from the theoretical and theological to the practical "nuts and bolts" of church administration. The authors include a special section offering principles for economic development, an area in which Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral has experienced extraordinary success. The African American Church Management Handbook is sure to find a permanent place on the desks of African American pastors, seminarians, and church leaders for many years to come.

About this title

About the Author:

Floyd Flake is the senior pastor of the 20,000+ member Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral in Jamaica, NY. He is the current president of Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, OH, the nation s oldest private African American university. For ten years, Flake served in the U.S. Congress, and is now a commissioner on the President s Commission on Excellence in Special Education. Preaching since the age of 15, Flake holds a B.A. from Wilberforce University, and a D. Min. degree from the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH. He is author of The Way of the Bootstrapper (HarperSanFrancisco).

Elaine Flake is co-pastor of the Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral. She is the co-founder with her husband, Floyd Flake, of the Allen Christian School in Jamaica, NY, and they collaborated to write Practical Virtues (Amistad). She is the author of God in Her Midst, and has contributed to Those Preaching Women, Volume 4 (Judson Press). Her several degrees include a M. Div. from Union Theological Seminary in New York, and D. Min. from United Theological Seminary.

Edwin Reed is the Chief Financial Officer for Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral where he manages the financial operations of the ministries and eleven affiliated corporations. A former senior executive with General Motors, he holds a M. Div. degree from Virginia Union University and a M.B.A. degree from Harvard University.

Review:

This handbook should be required reading for all pastors, ministers, deacons, trustees, and church officials as well as all church employees. I commend the authors on this exceptional, easy-to-read, and useful resource. --Ida D. McGhee, Univ. of Rhode Island, Multicultural Review, Fall 2006

About this edition

• Publisher: Judson Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0817014853
• ISBN 13: 9780817014858
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142