A Pastor's Toolbox: Management Skills for Parish Leadership

Today's parish leaders are expected to be holy and prayerful spiritual guides, great preachers and compassionate confessors, but also to make important decisions in key areas like finance, budgeting, hiring and firing, fundraising, risk management, relationship-building, and more – often with virtually no transition or training. And with all the requisite education in philosophy and theology they must provide future pastors, in addition to formation in priestly spirituality and pastoral care, seminaries can do little to prepare priests to deal with the difficult temporal issues pastors face.

A Pastor's Toolbox is designed to help fill that void. It is loaded with valuable information, insights, and practical tools that pastors need in order to begin handling the complexities of parish management in the twenty-first century. It candidly addresses:

hiring, evaluating, coaching, and inspiring members of your parish team budgeting and financial analysis working seamlessly with laity managing skills essential to fundraising protecting a parish's assets best practices to operate a parish effectively

Each chapter is written by experts, both clergy and lay, with years of experience and leadership in their respective fields.