Staffing2024-07-08T19:14:10-05:00

Articles on Staffing

Whether you have a staff of 3, 30 or 300, your staff leads the way in growing the church in your community. Having the “right people on the bus, in the right seats” is important for the health of your staff and church. Are you treating your staff right and helping them grow in their abilities and spiritual walk?

What is a Reasonable Retirement Package?

By |April 9th, 2025|

Too often, church boards lack the knowledge and experience to create an appropriate retirement package for their senior pastor who has served the church faithfully for many years or even decades. When the topic [...]

Making Sure You Get Succession Right

By |March 28th, 2025|

Best practices across 30 years and multiple cases Dave has coached 72 large churches through Senior Pastor Smart Succession.™ Plus he has had meaningful conversations with 500 more churches in the area of succession [...]

360 Reviews: Solving the Mystery

By |January 16th, 2025|

Fletch is a skeptic and Nathan is a believer. Nathan will try to win over Fletch on the role and effectiveness of 360 degree reviews. Nathan feels that there are key success [...]

Job Descriptions of Care Pastors

By |December 12th, 2024|

XPastor tries to help churches by providing some of the essentials for running a church—items like job descriptions, employment applications, review forms and policies. Below is the Job Descriptions from Southside Nazarene Church of [...]

Job Descriptions of Business Administrators

By |December 8th, 2024|

The following Business Administrator job descriptions have been collected by XPastor over the years. Learn from these examples and incorporate elements as they fit your church style and polity. All have been used by [...]

Job Descriptions of Elders

By |December 8th, 2024|

The following Elder job descriptions have been collected by XPastor over the years. Learn from these examples and incorporate elements as they fit your church style and polity. All have been used by permission. [...]

Job Descriptions of Executive Pastors

By |December 8th, 2024|

The following Executive Pastor job descriptions have been collected by XPastor over the years. Learn from these examples and incorporate elements as they fit your church style and polity. All have been used by [...]

Job Descriptions of Communication Directors

By |December 8th, 2024|

The following Communication Director job descriptions have been collected by XPastor over the years. Learn from these examples and incorporate elements as they fit your church style and polity. All have been used by [...]

Job Descriptions of Senior Pastors

By |December 8th, 2024|

The following Senior Pastor and Lead Pastor job descriptions have been collected by XPastor over the years. Learn from these examples and incorporate elements as they fit your church style and polity. All have [...]

Keys to Successful Hiring

By |May 16th, 2024|

The cost of a bad hire could be up to $250,000! That figure is from the Society of Human Resource Management, an expert HR organization. Say what?!? How can that be? When you consider [...]

Keys to Successful Hiring and Firing

By |April 26th, 2024|

The number 1 resource that Executive Pastors manage is human resources. The top two keys to stewarding human resources is how we hire and fire. In this webinar we will talk about [...]

Not the Fun Guy on Staff

By |April 4th, 2024|

Hey Fletch … I’m not the fun guy on staff. Do you have any ideas or resources for doing some fun or creative or helpful activities together that might help us? I’m thinking eating [...]

Avoiding Succession Sins (or Potholes)

By |March 18th, 2024|

What has changed since Covid on Pastor Succession? What are the biggest mistakes and traps that do-it-yourselfers in this process tend to make? The webinar will address these topics and: How a [...]