Essentials of Church Leadership and Management

About the Book

The primary goal of this book is to teach the essentials of management and leadership in a church organization. Management is universal, the principle is effective in all works of life; government, business, social and interfaith organizations if properly adapted.

The problems with many churches are that the operators lack management and leadership education. So the churches are run any way any how through trial and error. Even many operators think that if you are jobless and you want to get rich quickly you have to go into church business. Hence there are lots of funds mismanagement and embezzlement. These types of people should learn lesson from Ananias and Sapphira, Acts: 5:1-10. This is one of the reasons the book focuses great attention on finance and funds management. Proper budgeting and budget planning is another area the reader should focus attention on.

The reader may be somehow amazed to read about products, marketing, sales, and employees or subordinates in the book. Remember every organization has something to produce, to market and to sell. For the church, the product is usually what the church offers the congregants, the environment or community, the country and the Body of Christ at large. So the products must be properly marketed and sold to the Body of Christ world-wide, with the profit not quantified in terms of money but in terms of services rendered for soul saving and salvation.

The management principles and techniques that work for General Motors or Government can also work for a church organization if properly and prudently adapted.

About the Author

 Reverend Professor Alfred A. Adelekan Ph.D. is one of the seven Founding Fathers of International House of Prayer For All People In., Washington D.C., U.S.A. under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Frederick O. Ogunfiditimi, the President, and General Overseer. Rev Adelekan is currently the Archbishop of the Church and the World wide Overseer. He was an Instructor of Management and Economics at Saint Paul’s College, Lawrenceville, Virginia. He later joined the services of the Nigerian Institute of Management, Lagos, Nigeria, and later became the first Resident Lecturer/Consultant in charge of the whole Northern States of Nigeria. He retired from the Institute after serving for thirteen years. He later became the Managing Director and CEO of EPIC Engineering and Management Consultancy Services(Nig.) Ltd, President, CEO of ADELSONS General Enterprises Ltd, and Center for Management and Investment Consultancy Ltd, All Consultancy Firms with the European Union, World Bank, UNICEF and the Ministry of Planning, Office of the President, Nigeria.

Dr. Alfred Adelekan later decided to work full time in the vineyard of the Almighty God. He founded some branches of International House of Prayer in Nigeria.

He is currently an Executive College Member, Nuncio to Africa, of the World Bishops’ Council,  the Regional President of World Federation of Churches, US Eastern Zone and Africa .

Archbishop Adelekan is an Executive Member of American Clergy Leadership Conference, Washington DC zone. He was awarded Ambassador for Peace by the Universal Peace Federation. He is also an active member of the Nigerian United Council of Churches U.S.A. Inc.

Professor Alfred A. Adelekan is currently the Academic Dean of International House of Prayer For All People, BIBLE INSTITUTE, an Affiliate of FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, Merced, California. He is also an International Advisory Board Member and Professor of Theology at Friends International Christian University.