The First Parish Placement: Stayers and Movers
This study was intended to identify a minimum time period for a worthwhile stay by a minister in his first parish and to help clarify factors which affect a decision to remain or to move. The total population consisted of 122 Missouri Synod Lutheran seminary graduates assigned in 1963 and 1964 to to...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
1971
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Review of religious research
Year: 1971, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 95-101 |
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| Summary: | This study was intended to identify a minimum time period for a worthwhile stay by a minister in his first parish and to help clarify factors which affect a decision to remain or to move. The total population consisted of 122 Missouri Synod Lutheran seminary graduates assigned in 1963 and 1964 to town and country parishes, 57 of whom were movers and 65 stayers after an initial 3½ year period. Questionnaires were sent to the ministers and to their respective district presidents. Both stayers and movers gained similar degrees of benefit during the minimum time period, but stayers seemed to provide more benefits for their people within the same period. Factors involved in the decision to stay or move were readily categorized into six areas (professional competence, personal development, personal interests, identification and fulfillment of the needs of the people, response of the people, and personal welfare). |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3510082 |