There’s been a lot written about effective planning meetings from a big church perspective.
For instance, most church planning advice assumes that everyone will have no problem showing up, because they have a paid staff. That’s not the case in a small church. In many situations everyone is unpaid, including the pastor, making even the most basic assumptions moot.
Since planning meetings are harder to do in a small church, it’s even more important to make them matter.
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Karl produces resources for Helping Small Churches Thrive at KarlVaters.com.
He's the author of four books on church leadership. His fifth book, De-Sizing the Church: How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What's Next, releases on April 2, 2024.
He also hosts a bi-weekly podcast,The Church Lobby: Conversations on Faith & Ministry. Episodes feature in-depth interviews about the topics that concern pastors, especially those who minister in a small church context.
Karl has served in small-church ministry for over 40 years, so he speaks and writes from decades of hands-on pastoral experience. He and his wife, Shelley have three children and two grandkids.