COS 114 Pastoral Leadership and Administration
March 25-26 & May 13-14, 2011
Instructor: Rev. Dr. Cathy Hall Stengel
Required Texts: all available through amazon.com
10,000 Horses by John Stahl-Wert
Getting Naked by Kenneth Lencioni
You Don't Have to do it Alone Richard H. Axelrod , Emily M. Axelrod , Julie Beedon ,
Robert W. Jacobs
The Serving Leader by John Stahl-Wert and Ken Blanchard
United Methodist Guidelines: The Pastor Published by Cokesbury. It is one
booklet out of the quadrennial publication called the United Methodist
Guidelines.
Assignments:
BEFORE THE MARCH CLASS
1. Read the UMC Guideline booklet
a. Write a brief response to the way you understand the pastor's
responsibility to ORDER the life the local church.
1. What does it mean to "order"
2. What responsibilities does the pastor have in the church life that
would fall into this category?
3. What are the things that a pastor MUST oversee being done, even
if they don't do them by themselves.
b. Read 10,000 Horses and write a response- no more than about three or
four pages answering the following questions:
1. How does this model of life/leadership impact you personally?
2. What do you gain as a pastor from reading this book?
3. Using the model presented, try to apply it to your ministry,
describe how you might create a plan and provide some
implementing steps.
c. Read Getting Naked - be prepared to give the class a five minute
presentation on the character in the book you most identify with and why.
PLEASE SEND THESE RESPONSES TO ME NO LESS THAN TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE
FIRST CLASS SESSION EITHER BY MAIL OR EMAIL. Please send it in WORD
format, I typically cannot open Word Perfect or Word Pad documents. If you
don't have Word, but the content of the paper right in the email rather than as
an attachment.
Rev. Dr. Cathy Hall Stengel
65 East 1st Street
Corning, NY 14830 or
CathyHallStengel@unyumc.org
PREPARATION FOR SECOND CLASS SESSION-again, please send to me no later
than ten days before we gather as a class!!
1. Read The Serving Leader. Write a journal type response to this books,
either as you read it or after you finish. Respond to the characters.
Who are the main characters
Why are they in the book?
What is their role in the story.
Do you see yourself in the book? Where, and why?
Do you see any parallels in ministry, in church leadership, in a way of
living?
Summarize personal and professional learning.
2. Read You Don't Have to Do It Alone
Write a two page paper describing the relevance of this book to ministry,
mission, making disciples.