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Resources for Healthy Pastor Transitions

General

• The Right Start: Pastors Version
• The Changeover Zone by Jim Ozier & Jim Griffith
• Next: Pastoral Succession That Works by William Vanderbloemen and Warren Bird
• Making A Good Move by Michael J. Coyner
• Your Best Move by Robert Kaylor – Part 1
• Your Best Move by Robert Kaylor – Part 2
• Leaving Well and Starting Strong: Planning for an Effective Pastoral Transition
• 50 Ways to Improve Pastoral Transitions
• A Biblical Model of Leadership Transition

Leaving Well

• Pastoral Transitions—Leaving Well
• Passing the Baton to Your Pastoral Successor
• Social Media and Pastoral Moves
• Pastoral Transitions: Preparing the Way for Your Successor
• Lessons for Clergy Preparing to Leave a Congregation
• Ten Commandments for Pastors Leaving a Congregation

Arriving Well

• Ten Commandments for Pastors New to a Congregation
• 11 Questions for Getting to Know a New Congregation
• How to Make a Good Entrance
• Social Media and Pastoral Moves
• First Year Priorities When Pastors Move
• The Four Stages of a Pastoral Transition
• Honoring the Context of a New Ministry Setting
• 4 Traps for Clergy When Moving to a New Congregation
• How Incoming Pastors Can Navigate the Changeover Zone
• 7 Ways to Make Your Worst Pastoral Move Ever
• A Guide to Pastoral Transitions: The First 30 Days
• A Guide to Pastoral Transitions: Day 31 and Beyond

Clergy Entering Cross-Racial or Cross-Cultural Appointments

• Learning from Strangers: Best Practices for Cross-Racial and Cross-Cultural Ministry in The United Methodist Church
• Crossings: Ministry in a Cross-Racial/Cross-Cultural Context
• This Is Our Story; This Is Our Song: A Small Group Study of Cross-Racial/Cross-Cultural Ministry for Congregations
• The General Commission on Religion and Race

Clergy Entering Retirement

• Retirement Best Practices for Pastor and Congregation

Worship

• An Order of Farewell to a Pastor or Deacon
• First and Last Words: Preaching in the Midst of Transition
• Communion Liturgy: Great Thanksgiving Gift of a New Pastor
• An Order for the Celebration of an Appointment