New Church Health Assessment Tool Wouldn’t it be great to start the ministry year with fresh perspective and optimism?

A church assessment is a great way to distinguish high priority issues from all the rest. Healthy Church’s online Church Health Assessment Tool (CHAT) will give you the clarity to focus on the issues that matter most.

"Focus on 5" Symposium
Seacoast Church (Mt. Pleasant, SC) and the Association of Related Churches is hosting the "Focus on 5" symposium October 29-30, 2007--an intense two-day symposium for pastors who are trying to break out of a growth plateau and move to the next level.

Proven church planters and pastors will help participants identify and engage five critical growth catalysts within a church: First Impressions, Connections, Experience, Aftertaste and Telling the Story.

Salaries Growing for Women in Ministry
Female clergy who serve as full-time solo pastors earn more than their male counterparts, a new study of church workers shows. But women who serve as senior pastors--with other clergy as subordinates--earn less than males in the same position.

An overwhelming majority of solo pastors responding to a survey reported in Your Church, a magazine of Christianity Today International, were male. But the 6 percent of respondents who were female reported a total compensation that was 10.4 percent higher than male counterparts.

Looking at salaries and housing alone, researchers found on average that the earnings of female solo pastors were 8.7 percent higher than those of males. The total compensation for female solo pastors was $62,472, compared to $56,558 for their male counterparts. In comparison, the average total compensation for women serving as senior pastors was $66,218, while their male counterparts had an average of $81,432.