Resources e-letter 22:4 - August 2022
A major new article that is a bit different this time: the story of the UK Church Administrator Network (UCAN) from 1981 through to 2017. Article A53, The UCAN story, explains how UCAN reached its position today as an independent organisation. There is also a listing of all resources on self-management.
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NEW: The UCAN story
This new article is somewhat different from others in that it tells the story of how the UK Church Administrator Network (UCAN) came to be formed.
It does this by going back to 1981 and the setting up of Administry with its Church Administrator Resource Centre (CARC) stream. The article explains how CARC developed within Administry until the parent organisation closed down at the end of 2003.
There was then an five-year gap until I set up UCAN in 2009 and the story runs through the next eight and a half years when it operated as an add-on to my professional work as a church consultant and trainer.
UCAN was built on original work in CARC and to have both parts of this story offers a valuable overview of Church Administrator development over the past 40 years. This will be of interest to Administrators, Ministers and many others.
The story continues to the point when I handed UCAN over to a Board of Directors in 2017. Others can continue the story at a future date when the further developments can be seen in perspective.
Article A53, The UCAN story, is now available without charge from the Articles index page of this website.
Resources on self-management
Here is a list of resources on the website that deal with how you might organise your life and your ministry whether you are a Minister, Administrator or lay worker of any kind.
A1 Pass or file? – How to get excited about filing!
A25 Working from home – Boundaries, discipline and space
A27 Reliability in ministry – For administrators and leaders
A36 Sorting out your study – Part 1: The space in the room
A37 Sorting out your study – Part 2: The stuff in the room
A51 The ‘To Do Diary’ guide – How to use this simple tool
TN7 Ideas for how to make time for life
TN11 Keeping a time log
TN23 How to do ‘To Do’ lists
TN43 Did Jesus use an iPhone?
TN54 Creating space for a Planning Retreat
TN57 Clear your clutter!
TN62 Know what distracts you
TN67 Stress and the Christian worker
TN84 How to say ‘No’ when you should
TN106 Talk about taking time ‘off’
To print out a complete listing of all resources, scroll down to the bottom of the Resources page and download the pdf there. There are now over 200 different resources on the site. All are available to anyone and you may download or print up to 30 copies without charge.
Use the indexes provided
The website allows you to search for resources in several different ways. You can search the entire index by reference number on the Articles, Training notes and Health-checks listings. If you know the title, you can use the Alphabetical index. If you know what the item is about, check out the Topics index. And if you want to look at all resources within the broad headings of Leadership, Management, Structures, Planning, Communication and Administration there are pages for each of those.
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