Piloting Church: Helping Your Congregation Take Flight

by Cameron Trimble

Overview

Using piloting as an engaging framework for organizational transformation, Trimble addresses the process of planning, executing, and completing a church revitalization project in 10 easy-to-read chapters:

· Decide You Want to Fly

· What Kind of Pilot Will You Be?

· The Fundamentals of Flight

· Your Flight Crew

· Charting Your Course

· Preflight Checklist

· Funding Your Flying Habit

· Managing Comms

· Mayday Moments

· Making a Successful Landing

Trimble is the executive director and CEO of the Center for Progressive Renewal (CPR) and has years of experience helping to start new congregations and revitalize older congregations. Piloting Church reflects her learnings as a congregational consultant and national faith leader. Having worked with twelve denominational partners and their congregations, she believes the Church's best days are ahead.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780827231696
Publisher:	Chalice Press
Publication date:	03/01/2019
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Cameron Trimble is the Executive Director and CEO at The Center for Progressive Renewal. Cameron also directs Convergence Network, a multi-denominational network of congregations and leaders in North America. Rev. Trimble is an adjunct professor teaching social innovation in a number of universities in the United States. She is an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ, have served as a pastor of four congregations in the Atlanta area. Her ministry in national and regional church settings has given her a unique perspective on the challenges of cultivating leaders equipped to meet the needs of the future of mainline Protestantism. Her coaching and consulting clients are primarily executive leaders going through dynamic culture transformations. Diversity, she believes, is the source of lasting innovation and the social transformation. In becoming a pilot, Cameron learned many of her leadership lessons through the adventures of the cockpit of her airplane. In her work, she has learned to combine these two passions - pastoring and piloting - to teach the art of leadership in organizational systems.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Chapter 1 Decide You Want to Fly 3

Checklist

Measuring Risk

Take Responsibility for Your Possibility

You're Getting Somewhere…

Why Not You?

Sure It's Scary…So What?

A Personal Practice: Vision Board

A Congregational Practice: Impact Board

Small Group Discussion Questions

Chapter 2 What Kind of Pilot Will You Be? 15

Checklist

Do You Have What It Takes?

The Pro and the Amateur

What Makes a Pro

What about You?

A Personal Practice: Your Piloting Style

A Congregational Practice

Small Group Discussion Questions

Chapter 3 The Fundamentals of Flight 31

Checklist

The Lifecycle

The Key Indicators

A New Framework

Our Heroic Journey

A Personal Practice: Your Manifesto

A Congregational Practice: A Congregational Manifesto

Small Group Discussion Questions

Chapter 4 Your Flight Crew 47

Checklist

Why Your Team Matters

A Strong Team Starts with You

The Leader's Job Is to Be Clear

Recruiting Your Ace Flight Team

Let Them Fly

Celebrate the Wins

Debrief Together

The Trust Factor

A Personal Practice

A Congregational Practice

Small Group Discussion Questions

Chapter 5 Charting Your Course 63

Checklist

Where Are You Going?

How NOT to Start

Opening Your Focus

Flight Planning

A Personal Practice: Taking a Life Assessment

A Congregational Practice: 90 Days of Small Group Discernment

Small Group Discussion Questions

Chapter 6 Preflight Checklist 77

Checklist

The Four Systems for Flight

Strategy Spinout Checklist

A Personal Practice

A Congregational Practice

Small Group Discussion Questions

Chapter 7 Funding Your Flying Habit 89

Checklist

Your Money Story

Why Start Here?

The Crash Is Real

Emerging Funding Tools

Emerging Funding Models

A Personal Practice

A Congregational Practice

Small Group Discussion Questions

Chapter 8 Managing "Comms" 103

Checklist

Your Controls, My Controls

The Power of Aligned Communication

Set the Tone

Would You Care to Make a Comment?

Talking to Your Wider Community

Marketing Best Practices

What All Good Communicators Do

A Personal Practice

A Congregational Practice

Small Group Discussion Questions

Chapter 9 Mayday Moments 117

Checklist

The Crisis Compass

Hazardous Attitudes

Solving a Problem vs. Treating a Condition

A Personal Practice

A Congregational Practice

Small Group Discussion Questions

Chapter 10 Making a Successful Landing 129

Checklist

What Is All of This Really About?

The Gift of Descent

Learning to Land

Landing in Hazardous Conditions

Our Next Flight

A Personal Practice

A Congregational Practice

Small Group Discussion Questions