Services to Congregations
· Staff and Team-building Retreats for Church Staffs
From a 31 year background in multiple-staff team ministry, Paul can lead your staff through an 8 hour or overnight intentional team-building experience. Through such a retreat your staff can experience enhanced relationships, a common sense of mission, and a refreshed view towards ministering together. Bible study, worship, use of the Myers-Briggs Team Types Indicator or D.i.S.C. Personality Profile System and creation of a team covenant can all be part of a custom-made experience to meet your staff team-building needs.
· New Ministry Networking and Mission Planting
Paul is available to meet with your congregation or group of congregations to serve as catalyst and facilitator for a new mission congregation start. A new mission start may also take the form of an “along side” ethnic ministry planted in your congregation or shared by a circuit or local network of congregations. A new mission start may also be the result of a TMAC (Texas Mission Action Council) of local congregational representatives who work together to cooperatively plant a new congregation.
· P.A.U.S.E. Process for Decision Making
Using Ken Sande’s Biblical approach to negotiation, Paul can help a congregation sort through a decision making process which may be summarized in five basic steps, referred to as the PAUSE Principle:
Prepare (pray, get the facts, seek godly counsel, develop options)
Affirm relationships (show genuine concern and respect for others)
Understand interests (identify others' concerns, desires, needs, limitations,
or fears)
Search for creative solutions (prayerful brainstorming)
Evaluate options objectively and reasonably (evaluate, don't argue)
This process is appropriate when congregations are working to achieve
consensus in a difficult decision and where there is no unhealthy polarization
present.
