How to Lead When You Don't Know Where You're Going: Leading in a Liminal Season

book

by Susan Beaumont. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

Description

This book coaches congregations through transition with leadership strategies and group discernment excercises.

Features

free article about discnerment, defining transitions and liminal seasons, leading with presence, group discernment, institutional memory, finding purpose

Recommended Audience

anyone leading through uncertaint

Cost

Purchase as a book or e-book

Practical Applications

Reduce anxiety during transitions by borrowing strategies from this leadership coach.
Start a discernment process for the future of your congregation by using the example in this book.

Updated: February 15, 2024

About the Contributor

Tim Shapiro

Tim Shapiro is the Indianapolis Center’s president. He began serving the Center in 2003 after 18 years in pastoral ministry. For 14 years, Tim served Westminster Presbyterian Church in Xenia, Ohio. Prior to his pastorate at Westminster, he was pastor of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Logansport, Indiana. He holds degrees from Purdue University and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Tim’s interest in how congregations learn to do new things is represented in his book How Your Congregation Learns. After his extensive work on the Center’s Sacred Space initiative, Tim co-authored the book Holy Places: Matching Sacred Space with Mission and Message. He has also authored several articles, including Applying Positive Deviance and The Congregation of Theological Coherence.

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