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Transitions: Trust, Anxiety & the Waiting Place

We explore why pastoral transitions heighten anxiety and how those moments expose deeper issues of trust, communication, and power. With Dr. Ken Quick, we walk through systems thinking, corporate repentance, and practical steps boards can take to rebuild health and prepare for mission.

• defining anxiety as a systemic response in congregations

• tracing mistrust to specific historic breaches and naming them

• hearing criticism as a bid for care, not dishonor

• family systems framing for board reactions and presence

• power vacuums and the drift to pastor‑dominated models

• false comfort of…

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