Leadership Skills
- Asking People to Do Things in Your Church: Ten Worst Ways and Eleven Best Ways - Judy Turner shows how not to and how to recruit leaders.
- Discerning God's Direction for Your Church - Judy Turner, with input from John Turner, lays out twelve steps toward finding a common vision for your church.
- Mentoring - Judy Turner describes 3 models for mentoring, with questions to help mentors plan sessions.
- Motivating People - Principles that effective leaders implement outlined by Judy Turner.
- Writing a Personal Mission Statement - A guide to help you as a leader discover what God is calling you to be and to do.
- Spiritual Gifts Inventory - A free SGI that you can print and use in your church!
- Recovering from Burnout Judy Turner writes about burnout recovery on the Thorncrown Journal. Use your browser back arrow to return to this website.
Judy Turner has co-authored with Gary Straub a book to help congregations develop spiritual leaders. Practical and easy to read, the book is designed to move congregations and their emerging leaders into action. Although targeted to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), it should be helpful in other churches as well. To view or order from Amazon, click the title: Your Calling as a Leader
The following articles were originally written by Judy Turner for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), but with minor changes may fit many other churches, especially those with the office of lay elders or an equivalent position. This collection is being republished here because it is still being requested and is not readily available elsewhere.
- The Ministry of Elders
- Elders as a Prayer Team
- Elders and Evangelism
- Ten Ways Leaders Can Help Create a Spiritual Growth Climate in the Congregation
- Can Shepherding Programs Work?