I ran across the following in the notebook we hand out to Committee on Ministry members.<\/p>\n
Staffing for growth<\/p>\n
1 program professional for every 100 active members [active members defined as average Sunday attendance]
\n1 support FTE [full time equivalent] for the first program professional; 1\/2 FTE for each subsequent professional
\nMinisterial interns don’t count in the equation<\/p>\n“If you staff below maintenance level, I can promise you that you will decline. And if you staff above<\/em> the staffing for growth level, you will probably decline as well. Not having enough to do leads to low performance levels.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Unfortunately, the quotation is given without an attribution. Search engines don’t turn up anything with quite this wording. Anyone have any idea where this comes from? I’d love to know, because it’s such an interesting assertion — that your congregation will decline<\/em> if you have too many<\/em> program and support staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I ran across the following in the notebook we hand out to Committee on Ministry members. Staffing for growth 1 program professional for every 100 active members [active members defined as average Sunday attendance] 1 support FTE [full time equivalent] for the first program professional; 1\/2 FTE for each subsequent professional Ministerial interns don’t count … Continue reading “Quotation on congregational decline”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congregational-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}