At Chemistry, we get to spend our days walking alongside church leaders as they navigate one of the most treacherous journeys that they can undertake: finding the right people for their team. As part of this we have conversations about succession, releasing staff, and restructuring a staff team.

If you are like us, you have noticed that things seem to have sped up over the last few years. Our changing cultural reality has forced us to create new and different types of programs, the emergence of virtual church has required us to rethink our weekly rhythms, and radical disruptions to the status quo has made innovating on the fly our new normal.

As many churches adapt to new ministry models, they find themselves needing to reevaluate the current structure of their ministry with regard to their facilities, finances, and staffing. While change never comes easy in the church, facility shifts and budget adjustments pale in comparison to the pain associated with restructuring your staff team.