Interim as a Time of Transformation
A Travel Free Learning Article
By Gary Straub, Ministry Colleague with The Columbia Partnership
Voice: 502.320.4336, E-mail: GStraub@TheColumbiaPartnership.org, Web Site: www.TheColumbiaPartnership.org
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If we define interim ministry narrowly as the time between two moving vans when one settled pastor leaves and the next one arrives, we may miss a prime opportunity for transforming congregations. Actually, aren’t we are all interims? Isn’t all ministry done in the meantime?
Having done a half dozen interims, here are two sets of observations. First, here’s a short list of some benefits, banalities and blessings of the interim season in a congregation’s life cycle. Second, is a brief look at some faulty assumptions about interim seasons that may need revisiting.