AEC2001
The 2000 Anabaptist Church
Planting Survey
Survey Results
Part 3 - Leadership
Angela Zizak
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The congregational leadership includes not only
full-time pastors but part-time or bivocational pastors, youth workers, music
directors, and other lay leaders. Sixty-eight percent of churches have more than
one person serving in a ministerial role and encourage active lay leadership.
About 57% of the responding churches have full-time pastors; 31% have deacons;
27% have part-time ministers; 25% have youth ministers; 27% have music
directors; and 24% have other leadership. Thirty-seven percent of the ministers
are bivocational. Fifty percent of the current pastors have an undergraduate
degree, and half of the current pastors stated that they have a seminary degree.
(It should be noted that these groups are not mutually exclusive.) Fifty-five
percent attend conferences and workshops for other formal training.
Seventy-eight percent of the ministers feel they have all the authority needed
to minister effectively for their church. In addition, 74% are still the
original pastor to the church. Of those churches that had a change in
leadership, most of the congregations reacted favorably to the change.
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