Transitions — When Life Happens

 

Books

• Before You Move: A Guide to Ministry Transitions by John R. Cionca. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2004.
• Change Happens: Finding Your Way Through Life's Transitions by C.W. Brister. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc., 2009.
• Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned Around and How Yours Can Too by Stetzer, Ed & Mike Dodson. Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, 2007.
• How to Change Your Church (without Killing It) by Jim Mellado, Gene Appel, and Alan Nelson. Nashville, TN: Word Publishing, 2000.
• Leading Change by John P. Kotter. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1996.
• Staying Power: Why People Leave the Church Over Change (and What You Can Do About It!) by Bob Whitesel. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2003.
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Heath, Chip and Dan Heath. New York City: NY: Broadway Books — to be released February 2010.
• Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1980.
• Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson. New York City, NY: G. Putnam's Sons, 1998.

Curriculum

• Facing Midlife Challenges (leader and student guides) by Raymond T. Brock

Online Articles

• David J. Wood: A Meditation on Transitions
• Don't Think! Thrive Your Way Through Transition by Maud Purcell, LCSW, CEA
• Guidelines for Making One of Ministry's Toughest Decisions by Donald L. Bubna
• Making the Transition from One Ministry to the Next by Brian Ford
• Pastoral Transitions (When Asked to Leave) by Jerry Newswander
• Relationship Advice About How to Deal with Transitions by Susie and Otto Collins
• Tough Transitions: When You Have to Leave by Elaine Wipf
• Transition as 'The Way Through' by William Bridges
• Using Life Transitions as Teachable Moments

 

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