FAITHFUL ENDINGS & New Beginnings
PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
Every congregation experiences seasons of transition. Faithful Endings and New Beginnings prepares leaders to navigate change with confidence and compassion. Explore practical tools for discernment, congregation assessment, legacy planning, mergers, shared ministry, and closure while learning how to honor the past and uncover God’s emerging future. This engaging and interactive course empowers leaders to guide communities through endings that lead to new beginnings.
Reading: Click on the title to order.
Every ending tells a story.
Every beginning creates a new one.
This course prepares leaders to faithfully guide congregations through both.
Rev. Dr. Diane Kenaston
Course Designer/Instructor
Rev. Dr. Diane Kenaston is a pastor, writer, coach, and co-founder of the Good Friday Collaborative. She specializes in adaptive change and cultivating communities of justice and peace. After a decade of pastoring United Methodist churches, Rev. Kenaston led a church merger. Earlier she facilitated the sale of two parsonages and helped two yoked churches discern that it was time to separate. She believes in courageously adapting to changing circumstances. Rev. Kenaston has previously been published in the books Speaking Truth, We Pray With Her, and Holy Contradictions. Rev. Kenaston is passionate about ecumenical work. She is the chairperson of Young Clergy Women International. She previously worked as the County Ecumenical Officer for Churches Together in Cambridgeshire in Cambridge, England.
Rev. Dr. Ruth Shaver
Course Designer/Instructor
Rev. Dr. Ruth Shaver is an Intentional Interim and Transitional Ministry Specialist in the United Church of Christ (UCC) who has served 4 congregations as Intentional Interim Pastor and as an Interim Consultant. She is also the Moderator of the Old Colony Association of the Southern New England Conference and serves as a member of the Manual on Local Church rollout team for the United Church of Christ. Ruth holds a Master of Divinity from Boston University School of Theology and a Bachelor of Arts from Boston University.
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Look for New Dates in 2027!
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