Loving and Leaving a Church: A Pastor's Journey

by Barbara Melosh

Book Overview

Barbara Melosh's story was a common one. A second-career seminarian, she arrived at her first pastorate brimming with enthusiasm and high hopes. The blue-collar congregation to which she'd been called had a glorious past but an uncertain future. Certain that she could turn around its slow yet undeniable slide into decline, Melosh inaugurated a number of church growth and outreach programs. Most of these efforts had little effect, and the ones that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664264344
• ISBN13: 9780664264345
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"