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January 16, 2008
Wanted: Church Management Professionals
Churches are becoming more sophisticated in their structure and operational behavior. In fact, most larger churches are hiring skilled business professionals from the secular world to do what they do in the church world.
There is nothing wrong with this. In fact, I think this is a good step. We need this skill set. And it's rarely found in just one person (the pastor). This individual helps to round out the necessary business leadership to effectively and efficiently operate the ministry to its potential while the pastor has the ability to do what he does best--shepherd his people.
To help prepare these church business leaders, Villanova School of Business has developed a Masters of Science in Church Management degree. It's designed to mix business and church management theory to prepare people for positions such as Business Administrator and Executive Pastor.
If we agree that this is a good thing, how do we make a person who would complete this degree available to the small church? Even though the issues are not as complex, making sound organizational and business decisions is just as essential to ministry impact in smaller churches as it is in larger churches.
Posted by bstroup at January 16, 2008 5:34 AM
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