The Making of a Pastor with Managerial Acumen in Zimbabwe: Gaps, Strides and Options

The book is the outcome of a research that focused on the development of management skills for effective church management in pastoral preparation programmes in Zimbabwe. It identified the management challenges faced by the pastors, explored the extent to which management skills were being developed in pastoral preparation programmes and looked into alternative management practices that could be adopted into the Church for ministry effectiveness. The study argued that the church is both an organisation and a spiritual entity that can only be effectively managed by well-balanced pastors who are equipped with spiritual and management skills. Incorporating the pragmatism philosophy and using the abductive approach, the research study was a multiple case study of the Church as a unit of variance with embedded cases of the pastoral preparation programmes.