Guide to churches on spiritual leaders and trustees

This paper aims to address both of these questions in detail and provide guidance on how a church's strong leadership ethos can be incorporated into its legal governing documents.

Topics covered:

• Spiritual leaders and trustees: are they the same?
• Leadership: setting the sense of direction
• Trustees: do they have an important role in ‘church’?
• The spiritual leaders as the trustees?
• The trustees as a separate group?
• Strategy: trustees and spiritual leaders
• Financial decisions: the interaction of trustees and spiritual leaders
• Handling differences and relationships
• The things to remember once difficulties do arise
• Selection of trustees
• What options are there?