Odds-n-Ends . Volume 11 | Issue 09

Staff Members

Why Staff Members May Plan to Leave Your Church
25% Conflict with current leadership
19% Financial pressure
13% Don’t fit the vision
11% Apathy of the congregation
09% Probably will be fired
08% Pursuing more education
15% Other (need a change, lack of growth, family reasons, burnout, etc.)

Why Staff Members May Plan to Stay at Your Church
35% They feel “called”
18% There’s still work to do
16% I’m having a ball
10% I’m just staring here
08% We’re seeing results
07% I feel fulfilled
06% Other (I love the people, nowhere else to go, don’t like to change jobs, etc.)

Rev! Magazine, March/April 2006