Church Program Management: Effective Church Management

By Henry (Hank) Loyd Copeland

Successfully managing church programs is quite simple and can be accomplished easily; however, it does require commitment to follow an organized plan and dedicated follow through. The result is quite rewarding.

The purpose of this book is to provide guidelines and motivate churches to more effectively perform the task of managing programs in the church.

It is hoped that both potential church leaders and existing church leaders will learn to apply and apply guidelines contained in this book to improve church performance.

This book can be most useful for the following:
Pastors (both Senior and Associate)
Seminary Professors
Seminary Students
Other church related occupations, i.e. Minister of Music
Lay Leaders
Member of a church congregation

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524641375

Henry (Hank) Loyd Copeland

Henry Loyd Copeland, BSEE, MS, MBA, is a deacon and elder. He is also the founder of Media Ministries and author of Who is God?

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© 2016 Henry (Hank) Loyd Copeland. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse    09/28/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5246-4138-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5246-4137-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016916107

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Foreword

Testimony

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Organizing

Chapter 3 Planning

Chapter 4 Staffing

Chapter 5 Motivating & Controlling

Chapter 6 Training

Chapter 7 Summary

Appendix A Media Ministries Operating Plan

Appendix B Hosting Guidelines

Appendix C Example Of Chair Critique

Appendix D Youth Operating Plan Example

Appendix E Operating Plan – Proposal To Leadership

Appendix F Training Slides

Appendix G Church Program Management Guidelines

Appendix H Media Ministries History

About The Author

About The Book

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to those many church members who have unfortunately either decided to: a) not be a member of a church, or b) leave their current church and join another church. It is recognized that such dissatisfactions are deep rooted, frustrating, and can result in disappointment and anger. It is hoped that this book will contribute toward reducing some causes of these dissatisfactions.

This book also is dedicated first and foremost to his late wife with respect, gratitude, and affection:

Amy Elsie Suther Copeland

Wife, Mother, Friend, and Angel

This book also is dedicated to those twenty-five (25) families who were members of the Media Ministries team for several years.

Acknowledgement

The author acknowledges all those individuals who unfortunately sincerely and steadfastly stuck to the poor management ‘business as usual’ philosophy that destroyed (almost complete non-compliance with the Media Ministries Operating Plan) Media Ministries. If the author had not encountered this kind of poor management, this book would not have been written.

The author also acknowledges The Holy Spirit as providing ‘peace that passes all understanding’ to those who experience exposure to undesirable ‘business as usual’.

Foreword

MESSAGE FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT: …do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus… Colossians 3:17.

It has been said that the greatest power in the world is the power to communicate with Almighty God. It is recommended that church leaders who read this book read it prayerfully and take each task to God in prayer for guidance in its identification and implementation.

The purpose of this book is to provide guidelines and motivate churches to more effectively perform the task of managing programs in the church. Management of the church, the BODY OF CHRIST on earth, is a very serious matter. As such, the church should be most interested in improving its efficiency and effectiveness. However, without knowing, many church Leaders continue to make no major changes in their management philosophy. In other words, ‘business as usual’ prevails.

Each church leader who reads this book must pay close attention to terms as defined in this book. It is recognized that churches have different organizational structures and identify