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GOVERNANCE & MINISTRY
by Dan Hotchkiss
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Should a Church Staff Member Report to a Committee?
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When board- and committee-centered congregations engage paid staff, they sometimes struggle to find language to describe how staff members should relate to one another and to the rest of the organization. Especially if the staff person leads a program area like education, music, or youth work, which is “owned” by a committee, it seems natural that the committee should hire, orient, and supervise the new staff person. Committees simply cannot supervise paid staff, because they are not present when the work is done, and it is too difficult for them to speak with one voice. Dial the clock forward ten years. The staff member is full-time, still working “for” a committee (though by then he or she may actually handpick its members), and in conflict with another member of the staff, possibly the senior clergy leader. What is the process then? Do you assemble the two staff members and their
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