On Wednesday March 18th, I interview Emily Vermilya. Emily is the Worship Arts Director at College Wesleyan Church. Emily told me a story that took place in her former church in Colorado.
THE ISSUE: The main issue was that this church had 2 separate campuses and each campus had a head pastor and worship pastor, but there was 1 lead pastor that was in charge of both campuses. One of the campuses had to let their worship pastor go. So now there was only 1 worship pastor left. The lead pastor decided he wanted there to be only 1 worship pastor who was in charge of worship for both campuses. The head pastor of the campus who had to let their worship pastor go did not agree with the lead pastor in this decision.
HOW BAD IT GOT: Even though there was disagreement, the lead pastor went forward with his decision to just keep 1 worship pastor. It got bad enough that the head pastor was acting very rudely to the worship pastor which caused bad conflict. And eventually the head pastor was fired.
WHAT COULD HAVE RESOLVED IT: This situation could have been resolved by establishing a clear leadership structure in the church. Also this issue could have been resolved with there was a clear/writte-out philosophy of the multi-campus church.
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