“Doing a succession without a consultant’s guidance is like climbing Mount Everest without a sherpa.”
JOHN FINKELDE
“Doing a succession without a consultant’s guidance is like climbing Mount Everest without a sherpa.”
JOHN FINKELDE
Ensure Your Church Flourishes In Its New Season Of Leadership
Ensure Your Church Flourishes In Its New Season Of Leadership
Having a robust succession plan in place helps to cement your legacy upon departure as one of lasting growth. The Succession Consult helps you have the conversations you must have to ensure a successful transition free of confusion or discontent.
You’ll be guided through the right questions to consider (big and small), including the questions you haven’t thought about… and the ones you probably want to avoid!
Having a robust succession plan in place helps to cement your legacy upon departure as one of lasting growth. The Succession Consult helps you have the conversations you must have to ensure a successful transition free of confusion or discontent.
You’ll be guided through the right questions to consider (big and small), including the questions you haven’t thought about… and the ones you probably want to avoid!
Are you ready to move on, pastor?
Planning a pastor’s succession is a far more complex and emotional undertaking than one might realise. As with any period of big change in a person’s life, many of the factors to consider often only become clear in retrospect.
The Succession Consult puts you on the front foot and ensures an enjoyable and fulfilling transition for the entire church. It guides you to –
➔ Have the conversations you need to have,
➔ Plan for the moments you’re not expecting, and
➔ Avoid the common pitfalls facing your church along the way.
Are you ready to move on, pastor?
Planning a pastor’s succession is a far more complex and emotional undertaking than one might realise. As with any period of big change in a person’s life, many of the factors to consider often only become clear in retrospect.
The Succession Consult puts you on the front foot and ensures an enjoyable and fulfilling transition for the entire church. It guides you to –
➔ Have the conversations you need to have,
➔ Plan for the moments you’re not expecting, and
➔ Avoid the common pitfalls facing your church along the way.
John helps us define the purpose and clarity in the path ahead. This prevented us from incurring unforeseen difficulties, keeping the whole experience a positive one.
Ps Murray Stent
Outgoing Pastor Great Life Church, Australia
John helped us look at the big picture of the merger by bringing us alongside each other and created a shared understanding of what we wanted to achieve together.
Ps Andrew Norman
Incoming Pastor Great Life Church, Australia
A PROVEN Approach For Your
Successful Transition
With the multitude of complexities around a succession, it’s easy for even the most organised churches to miss an important step.
My Succession Framework has been developed over 10+ years of guiding successions in ministries around the world. It offers a straightforward road map through this emotionally charged and multi-faceted process.
A PROVEN Approach For Your
Successful Transition
With the multitude of complexities around a succession, it’s easy for even the most organised churches to miss an important step.
My Succession Framework has been developed over 10+ years of guiding successions in ministries around the world. It offers a straightforward road map through this emotionally charged and multi-faceted process.
Following my Framework helps churches avoid the common pitfalls in succession planning that can result in church decline after handover, such as –
Missing recruitment opportunities
It’s easy to get ‘tunnel vision’ around one candidate where there are actually multiple good options available.
Not managing the expectations of all parties
Both incoming and outgoing pastors have needs that must be managed throughout the process to avoid feelings of disappointment.
Failing to fully clarify roles
When outgoing or incoming pastors make assumptions about their new place within the church, it can cause confusion and fuel disorganisation.
Disrupting the Church’s direction
New pastors sometimes want to start doing things ‘their way’ immediately. This can cause conflict within the church and kick-start its decline.
Not asking the hard questions
There are conversations you will naturally avoid during a succession. A consultant will help you have the uncomfortable conversations you need to have.
Limited places available
Leave A Legacy of Lasting Growth
A church’s survival depends on its ability to help its members embrace change. But when a succession is not executed smoothly, people can sense the resulting conflict within their church. It stops being their sanctuary. They stop coming, and the church declines.
On the flipside, when a succession is done well… the church flourishes. People can feel the positive energy. New families start coming in. A season of fresh growth begins.
Having a robust and thorough succession plan in place ensures that your church’s transition goes smoothly for your pastors, your church leaders, and your parishioners.
In our succession journey, John’s insight guided us all and supported the well-being of the whole church – the outgoing pastors, the incoming pastors, the leaders, and the congregation.
Ps David Hooper
Outgoing Pastor C3 Church, Port Hedland, Australia
We have repeatedly experienced firsthand John’s ability to bring prophetic clarity, wisdom and guidance to a situation. I couldn’t imagine doing life without John and his resources.
Ps Brad Holder
Incoming Pastor C3 Church, Port Hedland, Australia
Comprehensive Strategic Plan
✔ Guiding the development of a comprehensive strategic plan for smoothly exiting the outgoing pastor, establishing the right successor, and executing a seamless handover.
✔ Developing appropriate timelines and milestones.
Tailored Consultancy
✔ Support and guidance for pastors and their leadership team on an as-needed basis.
✔ Assisting in finding, assessing and onboarding a suitable successor.
✔ Providing strategic advice throughout the pre-transition, transition and post transition phases of the succession.
Leadership Alignment
✔ One or two Zoom meetings with the church leadership team to outline the way forward and ensure everyone is clear and on board.
Bi-monthly Debriefing
✔ Held via Zoom with the church board to report succession plan progress and iron out any wrinkles as they occur.
Coaching and Development
✔ For the outgoing and the incoming pastors during the pre-transition, transition and post-transition phases of the succession plan.
What’s Included In The Succession Consult?
Comprehensive Strategic Plan
✔ Guiding the development of a comprehensive strategic plan for smoothly exiting the outgoing pastor, establishing the right successor, and executing a seamless handover.
✔ Developing appropriate timelines and milestones.
Tailored Consultancy
✔ Support and guidance for pastors and their leadership team on an as-needed basis.
✔ Assisting in finding, assessing and onboarding a suitable successor.
✔ Providing strategic advice throughout the pre-transition, transition and post transition phases of the succession.
Leadership Alignment
✔ One or two Zoom meetings with the church leadership team to outline the way forward and ensure everyone is clear and on board.
Bi-monthly Debriefing
✔ Held via Zoom with the church board to report succession plan progress and iron out any wrinkles as they occur.
Coaching and Development
✔ For the outgoing and the incoming pastors during the pre-transition, transition and post-transition phases of the succession plan.
Limited places available
About John Finkelde
With 40 years of pastoral experience, John has done it all when it comes to leading a healthy church.
As lead pastor at C3 Church Hepburn Heights, John led the church through generational renewal that saw it grow, while also planting a new church every three years and moving to a purpose-built, multi-million dollar worship centre.
In 2012, John founded Grow a Healthy Church and has conducted 170+ on-site and online church consults in Australia, UK, Europe, and NZ to glowing reviews.
About John Finkelde
With 40 years of pastoral experience, John has done it all when it comes to leading a healthy church.
As lead pastor at C3 Church Hepburn Heights, John led the church through generational renewal that saw it grow, while also planting a new church every three years and moving to a purpose-built, multi-million dollar worship centre.
In 2012, John founded Grow a Healthy Church and has conducted 170+ on-site and online church consults in Australia, UK, Europe, and NZ to glowing reviews.
John helped us achieve the successful outgoing transition of a senior pastor with 15 years ministry in our church and a very healthy handover and transition in for the new senior pastor. The process is much better done with experienced external guidance and support. Thanks John!
Ps Guy Collishaw
Chairman of Elders, Epping Church of Christ, Australia
John’s interface with our board helping them determine direction, and acting as an advocate for me as outgoing senior pastor, was utterly invaluable. John is an objective, wise consultant who spoke powerfully into our leadership team and guided our process of search and selection and especially sequential steps following his augmented process blueprint.
Ps Larry Galbraith
Outgoing Senior Pastor, Epping Church of Christ, Australia
