The Ministry Staff Member Audiobook by Douglas L. Fagerstrom
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Title: The Ministry Staff Member Subtitle: A Contemporary, Practical Handbook to Equip, Encourage, and Empower Author: Douglas L. Fagerstrom Narrator: Raymond Scully Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins Language: English Release date: 01-28-10 Publisher: Zondervan Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary: When are you going to become a real pastor? When are you going to get your own church? How long will you be here? During his 31 years serving in churches across the country, Doug Fagerstrom has both known the joys of being a ministry staff member and experienced many misconceptions of the role. In The Ministry Staff Member, he draws on his vast experience to correct false notions and provide a clear, accurate understanding. This comprehensive and practical handbook provides staff memberspaid and volunteer, church, and parachurchwith invaluable tools for success and helps those around them to better understand and appreciate the importance of what they do. Dozens of sidebar articles and suggested resource lists provide a useful toolbox youll want to turn to again and again.

Members Reviews: Great Purchase This is a Great Resource for those who anticipate be a part of a Ministry Staff. Was Very Happy To Find It!

Great book! This book helped answer a lot of questions. It showed me how to grow as a member of a church staff.

Five Stars It is very helpful

About Ministry Leadership From One Who Knows This is an excellent leadership book written in the context of local church ministry. Dr. Fagerstrom's thirty plus years in church ministry and leadership make him a perfectly prepared author for this book. The book is loaded with practical wisdom, how to's, and insights on the personalities and politics of everyday administration. Along with his years of church leadership, Dr. Fagerstrom served for a time as the president of a seminary, which was associated with the university where I served at the time as president. We worked together on many projects and I can say without fear of exaggeration or reservation that he is a man of integrity, knows whereof he speaks in terms of ministry and leadership, and is, to grab a phrase, "a class act." He now serves as executive vice president for an internationally distributed denomination. I recommend this book highly not only for church ministry staff members but for anyone in leadership.

Type A personalities beware These principles do not work for those with A type personalities. In the real church, senior pastors can be brutal to talented associates with leadership abilities. I know full well, having been abused in two churches; first, by a senior pastor who resented my effective leadership of the church's pre-school, second, by a senior pastor who resented my effectively researching a theological question. I was fired from the first position and forced out of the second. In the first, in Newtown PA, the pastor pursued vengeance by causing a mortgage to be denied that would have taken us out of a rental on the church property; then, he hired and attorney to evict us without a housing alternative. In the second, in Hastings NE, the pastor harassed me until I resigned; then, he slandered me to every church where I sought another position until I was unable to serve in any position other than a volunteer solo missionary. This last ministry, in Frederick MD, was the most satisfying of my life because I was able to serve Jesus Christ with all of the gifts of leadership and teaching which He bestowed upon me.