Leading Your African American Church Through Pastoral Transitions - Softcover

A practical resource for church leaders who have responsibility for ushering a congregation through a pastoral transition. Whether the outgoing pastor's departure is planned or unexpected, whether the new pastor is assigned or elected, author Ralph Watkins shares helpful insights, practical strategies, and biblical principles to help clergy, their family, and their congregation negotiate the change in leadership. Features a half-dozen ministry profiles based on interviews with pastors and churches that have navigated a significant pastoral change of their own.

McKinney is pastor emeritus of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Seattle. A graduate of Morehouse College, he also holds M.Div. and D.Min. degrees from Colgate Rochester.