Resources for Pastors
Workshops
Guidance and resources to the essential components of effective transition.
Pastor Transition Guide
Customized, affordable transition plans for up to three, six, and twelve months for your transition.
Individualized Coaching
Customized, affordable transition plans for up to three, six, and twelve months for your transition.
Resources Provided by Gateways
At the heart of a successful transition is planning, open conversations and deep listening. Gateways provides pastors and parishes suggested orderly frameworks, timetables, and guidance around conversations, including:
- Topics and talking points for pastor to discuss during transition
- Essential conversations for the pastor to hold and elicit from others
- Priorities Checklist for new pastor, set by the pastor
- Priorities Checklist for new pastor, set by staff, leaders, and congregation
- Administrative, ministerial and personal topics to be discussed by new pastor
- Questions for new pastor to ask
- Questions for new pastor to expect to be asked
- Questions for staff, leaders, and congregation to ask new pastor