How to Communicate Staff Changes at your church.

People come and people go for both positive and negative reasons. Sometimes it’s more positive news to share, and at times, because the issues are more sensitive or even negative, we have to be much more careful.

So what do you say when pastoral or staff changes happen? And to which audiences? Recognizing that every situation and church is unique, here are some overarching guiding principles (or goals) for your communication when going through a personnel transition.