Wayne Coideiro, Doing Church as a Team: The Miracle of Teamwork and How it Transforms Churches. Regal Books, 2009. Referenced in: Congregational Ministry Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Wayne Coidero is a popular writer in the field of church leadership. Here he shares most of the basic principles of team building, but provides the unique value of
Stephen A. Macchia, Becoming A Healthy Team: Five Traits of Vital Leadership. Baker Books, 2005. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Stephen Macchia has written a number of highly acclaimed and widely used books on church leadership. This is one of his most recent, building on titles such as Becoming a Healthy
Larry W. Osborne, The Unity Factor: Developing a Healthy Church Leadership Team. Owl’s Nest, 2001. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams Personnel, Ministerial Evaluation LifeandLeadership.com Summary For all practical purposes, this volume was replaced by Osborne’s Sticky Teams, but readers may benefit from both volumes. It incorporates most of the best practices of teamwork,
Jim Putnam, Church is a Team Sport: A Championship Strategy for Doing Ministry Together. Baker Books, 2009. Referenced in: Congregational Ministry Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary This book on team ministry comes out of the experience of a pastor who is a former coach and wrestler. It integrates most of the best practices of teamwork. The chief
Craig Johnson, Lead Vertically: Inspire People to Volunteer, Build Great Teams that Last. Regal Books, 2010. Referenced in: Congregational Ministry Teams From the Publisher Great leaders build up, not down. When leaders, whether in the church or in the marketplace, inspire their teams with a vision of what is possible, passion meets production and truly
John Laster, Gaining Traction: Field Guide for Leadership Teams. Chalice Press, 2007. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is written by a top-shelf consultant and astute observer of congregational life, John Laster. What he offers in this volume is not just a synthesis of the best material on teams (it is
Larry W. Osborne, Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page. Zondervan, 2010. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is an expansion on an earlier volume by Osborne, The Unity Factor (2006) that dealt with healthy church board development. Osborne says in this work he has “widened
Robert J. Radcliffe, Effective Ministry as an Associate Pastor: Making Beautiful Music on a Ministry Team. Kregel, 1998. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Using the metaphor of harmonious playing of the same musical score, Radcliffe writes out of his own experience as an associate pastor and presents a very useful vision
Martin E. Hawkins and Kelli Sallman, Associate Pastor: Second Chair, Not Second Best. Broadman and Holman Publishers, 2005. Referenced in: Leading in Subordinate Roles Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Using the musical analogy of “second chair,” or “second fiddle,” the authors provide a very useful guide to the associate pastor role. They first
Theodore P. Fields, All the Pastor’s Men: The Associate Minister in the Black Church Setting. 1st Books Library, 2002. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Written to address the unique opportunities and challenges of associate ministers in African-American churches. From the Publisher The book, All The Pastor’s Men: The Associate Minister in
