Holy Cow! Consulting is excited to announce the upcoming publication of “Transition Apparitions: Why Much of What We Know about Pastoral Transitions is Wrong”

This latest book from Holy Cow! Consulting studies the data from over 900 churches and makes some startling discoveries regarding what happens to churches during a pastoral transition.  In a relatively brief number of pages, Russ Crabtree provides answers to questions like

• What happens to the morale of a typical church as it moves through a pastoral transition?
• Why do conflict levels in a typical church tend to intensify during a pastoral transition rather than improve?
• Why does the trajectory of a church through a pastoral transition not track what we might expect with a grief reaction?
• What are the typical losses in attendance and giving during a pastoral transition and what are the impacts of those upon the congregation?
• Do interim pastors typically help congregations become more flexible as they prepare to welcome a new pastor or not?

The book ends by proposing an entirely new way of thinking about pastoral transitions and suggests a transformation in the way we train interim pastors.

Available Fall of 2015