Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The purpose of this workshop is to help church leaders and pastors move beyond the usual attitudes behind a pastor review, as well as to engage a broader review of church mission and ministry. For example, if the "why" of your congregation is to express its core purpose as a spiritual fingerprint on the community it serves, likely only about half of that has to do with the timeliness of returned emails, what songs are sung, or how your pastor appears in the pulpit. The other half has to do with the congregation as a whole and how it goes about relating to the community.
In "Moving Beyond Shame: An Appreciative Way Approach to Ministry Reviews" our Conference Minister Rev. Dr. David Popham helps participants explore:
• why engage in reviews
• the folly of feedback and the wisdom of feed-forward, and
• mutual ministry valuation of the pastor and congregation.
The purpose of this workshop is to help church leaders and pastors move beyond the usual attitudes behind a pastor review, as well as to engage a broader review of church mission and ministry. For example, if the "why" of your congregation is to express its core purpose as a spiritual fingerprint on the community it serves, likely only about half of that has to do with the timeliness of returned emails, what songs are sung, or how your pastor appears in the pulpit. The other half has to do with the congregation as a whole and how it goes about relating to the community.
In "Moving Beyond Shame: An Appreciative Way Approach to Ministry Reviews" our Conference Minister Rev. Dr. David Popham helps participants explore:
• why engage in reviews
• the folly of feedback and the wisdom of feed-forward, and
• mutual ministry valuation of the pastor and congregation.
