King’s Harbor Church in Torrance, California was a church not unlike many of the churches VitalChurch Ministry works with. The 19-year old church had experienced a couple of major setbacks, and in early 2015, the church found itself without a senior pastor. Fortunately for King’s Harbor, seven …
After the Interim Pastor Leaves: What Our Follow-Up Phase Looks Like
As you look around our website, you’ll read a lot about our three-phase process of church revitalization, which includes a church assessment (the diagnostic phase), the interim pastor phase, and the follow-up phase. When church leaders call or email us to talk about our services, they don’t often …
Using Titus 1:5 as a Guide for Interim Pastor Ministry
Our last blog post centered on the biblical support for an intentional interim pastor. We referenced the book of Titus, and specifically Titus 1:5, which says, “The reason I left you in Crete was that you might straighten out what was left unfinished, and appoint elders in every town as I directed …