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Category Archives: Administration

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Churches Continue to Increase Lay Staff

Administration, Congregational FinanceBy Lovett WeemsDecember 16, 2022

By Lovett H. Weems Jr. As congregations seek to carry out their missions faithfully, they will want to assess their spending on personnel. In that process, they need to address spending that includes both clergy and lay staff. The Lewis Center has been seeking to learn the proportions of church budgets spent on paid clergy…

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Is Your Church Spending Too Much or Too Little on Personnel?

Administration, Congregational FinanceBy Lovett WeemsDecember 6, 2022

By Lovett H. Weems Jr. Church leaders often ask if their spending on personnel is reasonable in relation to comparable churches. This question is not easy to answer. We look first at some elements of church budgeting and the place of personnel. Churches spend their funds for a variety of purposes to fulfill their missions,…

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2 Churches — 1 Pastor

Administration, Congregational Vitality, Leadership, Pastoral ImaginationBy RWP StaffJuly 20, 2022

By Lewis A. Parks It’s important to remember that in some denominations, the normative expectation of a local church to have a resident pastor is relatively recent. Until the middle of the last century, for example, the whole mindset in the Methodist tradition was that clergy were not overly identified with any one congregation and everybody…

The Religious Workforce Project is a research initiative of The Lewis Center for Church Leadership of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. Founded in 2003, The Lewis Center produces resources and research for effective leadership in ministry.

Funding for the project generously provided by The Lilly Endowment, Inc., a private philanthropic foundation supporting the causes of religion, education, and community development.

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