This webinar explores the spiritual, emotional, relational, and practical preparation needed for retirement from pastoral ministry. Featuring Fred Lien, the session addresses identity, grief, communication, financial planning, and family impact, offering guidance for pastors discerning or entering a new season of ministry.

This webinar provides practical guidance for churches navigating pastoral transition. It outlines clear guidelines for preparation, communication, and boundary-setting, and includes reflections from pastors who have experienced leadership succession firsthand.

Leaving Well is a guide from the Saint Paul Area Synod (ELCA) offering theological grounding and practical guidelines for pastors and deacons retiring from a congregation. It outlines boundary expectations, transition practices, and emotional preparation. While written for use within the ELCA, the principles and practices outlined offer a helpful framework for any leader seeking to support healthy pastoral transitions.

The CRC Retirement Roadmap is a collection of articles offering theological reflection and practical guidance for leaders transitioning into retirement. It addresses preparation, financial and logistical planning, relational dynamics, emotional health, identity shifts, and life after full-time ministry, with additional guidance for lay leaders supporting the transition.

The Workbook for Retiring Well offers practical guidance and structured reflection for pastors preparing for retirement. It includes transition planning steps, a retirement timeline, boundary covenant models, and extensive wellbeing questions covering relational, financial, emotional, physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions of life after active ministry.

Closing Well—Continuing Strong is a retirement planning and transition guide for pastors and their spouses. It includes spiritual reflection exercises, financial planning worksheets, guidance for shaping final years of ministry, farewell and succession planning, boundary-setting after retirement, and a section for lay leaders supporting the transition.