Abstract
Interim Ministers, who nurture the health of congregations during a ministerial vacancy, have a privileged perspective on congregational life and the practice and theology of full-time ordained leadership. In this article the character of pastoral charge in the Church of England is examined and three theological models identified and contrasted. The author's own experience of interim ministry is compared with the available literature and conversation with other practitioners in this country and in North America. These Interim Ministers claim that the relational nature of such leadership is congruent in each denomination, such that this examination of the practice and theology of the Church of England sheds light on the nature of all ministerial leadership.
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