Human Resource Stewardship for Churches

Human Resource Stewardship for Churches

Subject
Credential
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Duke Divinity School

Overview

Most clergy graduate from seminary or divinity school without coursework or training or exposure to church administration, church management, or human resource management. Clergy commonly presume most of their time will be spent preaching, presiding at liturgies, forming their congregation in the Christian faith, ensuring the pastoral care of their congregations, and doing good work for those in need in the community.  Church leaders are often surprised to find out how much of their time is spent managing staff and volunteers and handling personnel issues.  

This elective course in the Duke Divinity+ Church Administration series is designed to enable clergy and lay leaders serving the church in congregational settings or in other church-related venues to develop healthy frameworks and practices for human resource management.  

While as church leaders you rely first and foremost upon God to successfully perform your ministries, this work is accomplished through human resources – staff and volunteers. It is your responsibility, as one entrusted to minister in God’s name, to steward those human resources in the best manner possible.   

Participants in this course will connect human resource management to theological principles, and we will provide real-life examples and case studies of what to do and not do as a manager, all while learning the basics of human resource management in a church related setting. 

Divinity School alums, who will share how they each approached and implemented a key element in their church setting.

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