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In this issue: Leadership as Playful Creative Adventure |
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If you lose hope, somehow you lose that vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of all. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Leadership as Playful Creative Adventure
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The Myth of the 200 Barrier: How to Lead through Transitional Growth by Kevin E. Martin, Abingdon Press, 2005 Kevin E. Martin is the executive director of Vital Church Ministries, a teaching and consulting outreach of the Cathedral Church of Saint Matthew in Dallas, Texas. His book, The Myth of the 200 Barrier: How to Lead through Transitional Growth, provides insight into the tensions that occur when attempting to grow a small family-size church with an Average Sunday Attendance (ASA) of 150 or less into a larger program-size congregation with an ASA of 225 or more. The book explains why a “transitional church” (with an ASA of 150 to 225) often feels caught between two dynamics – the cultural and denominational pressure to become a larger, more vital church with a variety of programs and needs-based ministries, and its current reality as a smaller, but loving, vital, and faithful family community of 150 or less in worship. |
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Leaders do not need answers. Honest self-evaluation is difficult. Sometimes questions such as these can help: If I were my own supervisor, how would I describe me? |
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Editors:
Lovett H. Weems, Jr. and
Ann A. Michel
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