Notes
James L. Lowery, Jr., Bi-vocationals: Men and Women Who Enrich the Human Ecology and the World Surrounding (West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity, 2006), iv.
Dennis W. Bickers, The Work of the Bivocational Minister (Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2007), 2.
ELCA, Manual of Policies and Procedures for Management of the Rosters of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Chicago: ELCA, 2010), 42.
Sandra K. Jones, “The Praxis of Bivocational Ministry: A Survey of Bivocational Pastors and the Congregations They Serve in the Northwestern Pennsylvania Synod, ELCA Using Appreciative Inquiry,” EdD project paper, Graduate Theological Foundation, 2015, 14-15.
Dennis W. Bickers, The Bivocational Pastor: Two Jobs, One Ministry (Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press, 2004).
Robert Kolb and Timothy Wengert, eds., The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2000), 53.
ELCA, Constitution, Bylaws, and Continuing Resolutions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Chicago: ELCA, 2014), 28.
Pastor Ruth, interview by Sandra K. Jones, November 1, 2013.
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Sandra K. Jones
Sandra K. Jones is Assistant to the Bishop, Northwestern Pennsylvania Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Pleasantville, Pennsylvania.